They would put a bonus plan in place to reward them when sales improved.
Manipulating the accounting to maximize compensation has been around since the first performance bonus plan was created.
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The leader of the opposition Socialist Party said the bonus plan was scandalous and BNP's lowest-paid employees protested outside its headquarters.
When a big bonus plan did take hold, the authors contend, it did more to distort incentives than to help HP advance.
In testimony before the House Financial Services Committee on February 11, Lewis said he had little involvement in the Merrill bonus plan.
He may have been a bit embarrassed by the amount I was entitled to receive under the plan, but he was a member of the Compensation Committee that unanimously approved the bonus plan.
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Chambers put in a bonus plan that rises or falls by 30%, based on how many of your peers--up to six people, who thoroughly rate you in six areas--see you as a team player.
As the Bank of France pointed out, the bonus plan complies with rules introduced in February at the behest of Christine Lagarde, the finance minister, to ensure that the structure of bankers' compensation does not encourage excessive risk-taking.
NationsBank gives bonuses based on a companywide recognition program, but it balked at a year-2000-specific bonus plan because of the inevitably high turnover in IT, according to Bob Large, executive director of year-2000 projects at NationsBank, in Charlotte, N.
It's a plan with the bonus that less lighting means a cut in harmful CO2 emissions - and town halls are obliged by law to reduce waste.
In addition, the Senate's plan provides a "bonus depreciation" of an additional 50% for assets purchased in 2008.
This figure includes base salary, bonus and long-term incentive plan payouts, and the value realized from stock option exercises and other benefits.
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Nearly one in five of them (19%) plan to provide a fatter bonus this year.
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He expanded the bonus pool, created a stock-option plan and goaded the Swiss unions into accepting performance-based incentives even for entry-level workers.
To mitigate the loss of income, Advertisers plan to pay their agencies a bonus if certain benchmarks, usually sales, are met.
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But in his world, which is not the world occupied by most people, it is the trimmings around the basic pay - the bonus scheme and the long-term incentive plan - that are the real and substantial remuneration meal.
And the Unger Report eight-point plan for cutting back on oil involves a bonus ninth point, just sit in your car and listen to NPR until your battery dies.
Starbucks's directors set tough bonus goals "tied to a very challenging fiscal 2010 annual operating plan, " Mr. Hilowitz said.
Linking quality to bonus bulk and height sounds like a bribe, not a truly aspirational plan.
Protesters plan to take to the streets Wednesday to demand that the president veto the bonus bill -- again.
The new rules shouldn't affect a 2004 bonus paid in 2005--assuming, that is, it's part of a grandfathered plan that doesn't run afoul of tricky grandfathering rules.
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