Bonuses
Many employers operate contractual or discretionary bonus schemes to incentivise their employees.
A major legal issue for employers is to decide whether bonuses under the scheme are intended to be contractual or discretionary, and ensure that this is clearly reflected in the relevant employees’ contracts of employment.
Employee Benefits Awards 2020 entry deadline fast approaching
Time is running out to enter the Employee Benefits Awards 2020, as the entry deadline of 17 January is fast...
Greggs staff may not receive full bonus because of universal credit rules
Some Greggs employees will receive only a fraction of the one-off bonus the bakery chain plans to award them due...
Greggs staff to receive one-off bonus
Greggs employees will each receive a one-off bonus up to £300 following a successful year for the business.
Around 25,000...
The 10 most important employment law cases in 2019
We round up the most significant cases of the year including legal judgments on CCTV, restrictive covenants, enhancing shared parental leave, collective bargaining and more...
TSB bosses bonuses to be cut after failing to hit 2020 gender target
TSB’s leadership team will have their bonuses docked after the firm failed to increase the proportion of women in senior...
Recruitment consultant wins religious discrimination claim
A Muslim woman has been awarded more than £22,000 in compensation after a company director made derogatory comments about her...
Labour could ban City bonuses
John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, has said a future Labour government could ban bonuses in the City, unless the financial...
Wage growth fastest in 11 years
Wages are growing at their fastest rate for 11 years, according to official figures released today. Unemployment increased slightly and the number of vacancies fell for the sixth consecutive time.
Church of England asset management report reveals huge pay gap
Church Commissioners, the organisation that manages the assets of the Church of England, has a huge pay gap between its...
NatWest pays female worker £150,000 to settle equal pay claim
A former NatWest employee has won a £150,000 pay out after it emerged she was earning thousands of pounds less than a male colleague.
The 2018 gender pay gap: grounds for optimism?
There may not have been a dramatic change in the gender pay gap, but HR, analytics and reward specialists are far from gloomy about what the latest crop of reports reveals
John Lewis bonuses hit lowest level since 1953
A slump in profits has seen the John Lewis Partnership cut its staff bonus to the lowest level in 66 years, the retailer has announced.
More than half of managers received bonuses in 2018
More than half of all staff in managerial and professional roles received a bonus last year, according to XpertHR analysis....
Gender pay gap 2019: Three in 10 reports have errors
Almost a third of organisations that have submitted their gender pay gap reports for this year have published erroneous data,...
John Lewis Partnership might not pay staff bonus for first time in 66 years
John Lewis Partnership may not pay its staff a bonus this year, despite having the funds to do so, as...
