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.
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The chief executive of Marconi is due to receive a £1.9m bonus this summer, just weeks after the struggling telecoms company cut 800 jobs.
Postal workers at the Royal Mail are to each be given bonuses of £1,074 after the mail service announced record annual profits of £537m.
The Royal Mail will re-run its controversial sickness incentive scheme this summer, which rewards workers who do not take time...
Tesco workers have been rewarded for a record year of profits by sharing £220m in what is believed to be the UK's biggest staff bonus.
Network Rail executives have been branded "fat controllers" by rail unions after being awarded bonuses worth over half their salaries
The AA has been accused by the GMB union of trying to make 431 recovery patrol staff take redundancy.
New regulations, which came into force on Wednesday, have changed the rules for calculating statutory maternity pay in favour of mothers and could cause problems for employers, according to legal experts.
The pay gap between US and European financial workers continues to widen with Europeans receiving in excess of 10% more than their US counterparts, according to a survey.
Rod Aldridge, executive chairman of Capita, made £2.2m from his pay and share options package last year
Despite the massive salaries on offer to managers in the top league, many of the UK’s football bosses are more...
Union leaders have warned retail operations of T-Mobile that there will be a number of "mystery union representatives" watching the way the company treats its workers in the next few months
Median bonuses were 10% higher in 2004 than in the previous year, but salaries were unchanged, survey shows
Asda employees have shared almost £70m in performance-related bonuses since Wal-Mart bought the UK supermarket business five years ago
The union representing bank staff has denounced a pay package that gives some workers no pay rise at all following a year of record profits for the banking group
