Remuneration Justice – The Results of the Hungarian Research

Abstract

The international research group led by the Warsaw School of Economics (Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie) were involved in comparing remuneration justice perception in Poland, Hungary and Lithuania. This article concerns the Hungarian results. The paper introduces the general theoretical picture of labour fairness and justice and demonstrates the results of the Hungarian research conducted in June 2018. Hungarian firms consider employees as the most important stakeholders, so CSR programmes that involve them are useful and important. Just and fair remuneration is a form of intern CSR besides health and safe working conditions, flexible working hours or voluntarism. It is a moral obligation, but at the same time a potential source of business case. The basis of the relation is the generosity of the company: to assure a salary on which the employee can subsist without tax evasion and other unfair methods and feels appreciation.