"strict compensations policies" and "pay bands" are imaginary hurdles and constraints that corporations put up to control personnel costs. They can and will to

"strict compensations policies" and "pay bands" are imaginary hurdles and constraints that corporations put up to control personnel costs. They can and will totally ignore them, when it benefits them directly. They will also easily find a way to explain why that was okay in case A, but won't be in case B.