What payment details should be included in a contract of employment?
Should any benefits available to an employee be listed in the contract of employment?
Is it ever permissible for an employer to withhold bonus payments?
There are two types of bonus scheme, discretionary and
contractual. Provided that the terms of a discretionary scheme are clearly set out,
an employer will be entitled to exercise discretion to withhold payment of a bonus
as long as it is not acting irrationally or perversely in so doing. By
contrast, if a bonus agreed under a contractual basis is not paid, despite
the criteria for payment being met, an employee can apply to an employment
tribunal for unlawful deductions of wages. The criteria applied to either sort of
bonus scheme should not be discriminatory, and it is particularly important to
avoid criteria that might discriminate against women who have been absent on
maternity leave.
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