The union also threatened to disrupt public transport during the Olympics over the issue of a bonus payment for London bus drivers.

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Those staff who delivered outstanding performances were entitled to a bonus payment by virtue of the terms and conditions of their home department.

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They used credit cards, but they kept the balances low and would pay them off every time Dan got a bonus payment of a few thousand dollars.

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When a company pays a salary or bonus, that payment reduces its income.

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Later, as the brand grew more established, and as the number of writers in his stable increased, he settled on a new payment scheme: twelve dollars a post, with a pool of bonus money paid out according to the number of page views generated.

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Lawyers were also trying to change the nature of the payment and re-characterize it as a bonus for negotiating the merger between AMR Corp. and U.S. Airways.

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But the bonus payment which it appears no consumer has ever succeeded in obtaining is a sham.

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