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...some firms, the bonuses are surprisingly sweeping and generous. The Chicago-based Leo Burnett advertising agency gave all 1,600 of its U.S. employees a "profit-participation cash bonus." Said one Burnett executive: "It was a good deal better than last year's. I haven't detected a single sign of disappointment." At Silicon Valley's Hewlett-Packard, supervisors ceremoniously handed out checks to 62,500 employees for two weeks' extra pay, just in time for Christmas shopping. To qualify, employees needed at least six months on the job. The total bonus came to $49 million...
Drafted by the New York Yankees last June, Gill rejected a moderate bonus in order to return to school, and will go back into the lottery this year...
...tacking an additional 90% onto the state's personal income tax. Despite the size of the hike, deficit-weary Ohioans soundly rejected a tax repeal referendum earlier this month. The state ended the fiscal year with a $43.6 million surplus and is now looking forward to a combined bonus of $80 million in fiscal...
Management and the workers union compromised on the wage issue by agreeing to a one-time cash bonus for waiters that increases in value with seniority. Greg Roberts, a waiter at Ferdinand's and shop steward of the union, said that a waiter with more than five years experience would receive a $200 bonus, while one with six months to a year on the job would...
...Gave the "early out" retirement incentive bonus to people already retired, one as long as 5 years; misused the "early out" by giving it to everyone who left, instead of only to those whose departure would create positions for teachers whose classrooms were closed by declining enrollment...