Bonuses

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• Date:

  1 September 1999

  Type:

  Law reports

  Part-timers excluded from bonus

  In Kruger v Kreiskrankenhaus Ebersberg the European Court of Justice has ruled that a collective agreement which excluded employees working less than 15 hours from bonus payments is indirectly discriminatory.

• Date:

  1 September 1999

  Type:

  Law reports

  Maternity bonus lawful

  In Abdoulaye and others v Regie Nationale des Usines Renault SA the European Court of Justice has ruled that a maternity bonus to women did not discriminate against men so as to contravene Article 119 of the EC Treaty.

• Date:

  31 December 1998

  Type:

  Law reports

  Midland Bank plc v McCann

  In Midland Bank plc v McCann (1998) IDS 623 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that with regard to a discretionary bonus the employer had not exercised its discretion in such a way that it could be said to be in breach of the implied term of mutual trust and confidence.

• Date:

  1 October 1996

  Type:

  Law reports

  Deductions from wages: Employer entitled to vary collectively-agreed bonus scheme

  An employer was contractually entitled to make changes to an incentive bonus scheme without the consent of employees individually or their trade union representatives, holds the EAT in Airlie and others v City of Edinburgh District Council.

• Date:

  1 May 1996

  Type:

  Law reports

  Deductions from wages: Deductions from discretionary bonus were unlawful

  An employer who for several weeks reduced an employee's weekly bonus to offset the cost of vehicle repairs incurred because of the employee's act of negligence, made unlawful deductions from his wages notwithstanding that the contract of employment provided that weekly bonuses were made at the employer's discretion, holds the EAT in Bannerman Co Ltd v Mackenzie and another.