The company cut its bonus pool 7% in 2012, after a 42% decrease in 2011.
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The company said the bonus was mainly based on gains in operating income.
Unlike the House bill, the Senate bill would impose a tax both on the company giving the bonus and on the individual receiving it.
If the company paid Joe a more modest salary and bonus, the company could have paid him the rest of the money as a dividend.
To get these trucks moving again, company officials were offering bonus pay to drivers willing and able to leave their own hurricane cleanups and get behind the wheel.
In any other industry, when a company goes bankrupt, workers lose their bonus whether or not they helped cause their company's downfall.
If the company has floundered, then bonus payments should certainly not be part of that pay-off.
When a company pays a salary or bonus, that payment reduces its income.
Since succession planning among British companies can be tricky, the smooth handover of power is a bonus to the company.
Each month, the company tells every sales agent or flight attendant how well the company is doing in the bonus categories.
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Another group of former Enron employees is taking a different approach in hopes of winning back bonus pay the company owes them.
"In many ways corporation tax is a bit of a bonus - the company should be paying it if it is making profits, " he said.
They were all told they would play the role of a division president at a major company who was giving away bonus money among four department managers, two of whom had achieved 150% of their sales goals and two of whom had achieved 75%.
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He also could face civil suits from an insurance company that paid his Tour de France bonus money and the Sunday Times, a British newspaper that Mr. Armstrong sued for libel.
Details of the full bonus pool are expected with the company's annual results next Tuesday.
The company attributed the success to its new employee bonus share scheme.
The chief executive, Martin Blessing, is foregoing his bonus claims - a decision which the company's chairman described as "honourable".
Five-year averaging can be used only for distributions from company or Keogh pension, profit sharing or stock bonus plans, not for payouts from IRAs.
The new rules will cap a minority bonus at 10 percent, meaning the company's bid would be lowered by 10 percent to determine which bidder gets the contract.
In a press release this morning, Citigroup said Weill wouldn't accept a cash or stock bonus for a year in which the company's stock fell 30%.
The personal income of each member of the management team, from board members to middle-level managers, is limited to their salary, incentive bonus and stock dividends provided by the company, with policies to ensure that no one in the company abuses their power for self-serving purposes.
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It was a positive sit-down and a bonus will be paid next week, the company said.
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In the 1970s and early 1980s, executives were paid primarily by salary and bonus, which varied only slightly with their company's performance.
But most chief executives know less about how they can affect the value of their stock options than how they can increase the size of their bonus, which may be linked to the company's profitability or to economic value added.
But even if they thus qualify for a bonus, they receive it only if the whole company does well.
AngloGold had a sit-in with company management Thursday, which ended Friday, to discuss a safety bonus dispute.
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Last week, 54% of Aviva shareholders voted against the company's annual remuneration report, which covers its pay and bonus packages.
Today, British Airways announced that Walsh is turning down a bonus for a second year in a row as the company he leads struggles with huge losses.
But an American divorce-insurance company, SafeGuard, is planning a more ambitious product that will pay a big bonus to those who stay married for 25 years.
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