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The Bank Of Nova Scotia

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In recent years, the Bank of Nova Scotia has proven to be extremely negligent in compensating overtime wages to its employees in the retail banking sectors of the organization. The process of managing compensation has shifted from an organic and equitable process to an un-functional one. Retail branch level employees who seek to explain this alarming trend have found that although Scotiabank maintains eminency from employee loyalists in the corporate banking sectors of the organization where compensation is generally fair, the majority of employees in the retail banking sectors are dissatisfied, as they are being denied overtime wages by management due to strict branch compensation budgets being enforced by the bank. This phenomenon then, which exists at proportionately higher rates in retail banking sectors than any other sector in Scotiabank, must somehow be linked to the organizations oversight in consistent and fair employee policies. The Bank of Nova Scotia has encountered multiple class action lawsuits as a result of this, by as many as thirty thousand current and formal branch level employees who have sought punitive damages in unpaid overtime wages, exceeding hundreds of millions of dollars. In order to succeed in the current marketplace, the Bank of Nova Scotia requires functional alterations in their existing compensation strategies involving the retail-banking sectors of the organization. Employee behaviours and attitudinal changes have

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