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Employee Bonus Plans - Ensuring compliance in California


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Often employers design and implementation of employee bonus plans to motivate employees to work hard and set company-specific objectives, be it sales targets, achieving high marks for customer satisfaction surveys or other measurement system performance. Employee Bonus Plans are also an extremely effective way to improve employee morale. Often, employers, employment lawyers consider this draft law provides for bonuses to maximize the effectiveness and compliance with local,State and federal laws of occupation. To achieve these objectives, the lawyers should pay special attention to the following provisions.

* Purpose / Objective: The objective or objectives of the employee bonus plan should be near the top are expected. It 'important that employees know that the bonus plan is designed to reward employees for their contribution to the successful achievement of business objectives and success of the transaction in sharesEmployees.

* Management: The employee bonus plan should let employees know that the administration of the plan and the setting of performance targets, both the Chief Executive Officer, Director of Human Resources, or a group of leaders.

* Eligibility: This provision would allow people to know which categories of workers are covered. Is that a bonus plan for the rank-and-file workers or for executives? It is only for full-time employees, orare temporary and part-time employees, interns and independent contractors and involved? This provision should clarify that employees are able to use the incentive bonus plan in the application.

* Confidentiality: The employer must include the confidentiality clause in their bonus plan. If so, is this provision that the turnout will be in the bonus plan and all discussion and documentation of state should take full account confidentiality betweenBusinesses and workers. All employees should be provided that the agreement and promised to discuss issues openly, to honor bonus plan or any other person that the cradle and human resources.

Regarding the contents of the bonus plan, it is important for employers in California who is aware of the law of the State. The following categories of incentive plans should be considered in accordance with the laws of California:

* Bonus plans based on Gross Sales:Bonuses not reduced by cost factors, such as gross sales target or productivity in terms of units produced, hours worked, etc., must be accepted, because these bonuses not from the cost of doing business, such as shrinkage or workers concerned based 'compensation costs.

* Bonus plans based on certain margins: bonus may be based on a portion of the profits of an enterprise, without undue costs above. For example, a bonus based on a gross --margin or gross margin will be acceptable.

* Profit Sharing Plans: ERISA authorizes employers to implement profit-sharing in place, and not as a general limit profits are calculated, except that amounts accrued must be determined in a particular ERISA-compliant pre-determined formula.

* Discretionary Bonuses: Truly discretionary bonuses are legal, but a bonus is discretionary only if: (1) the fact and amount of payment is determined in the soleHas caused the authority's discretion, and (2), the payments are not after a contract, agreement or commitment by the employee to expect such payments regularly. Note, however, who pay a "discretionary" bonus regularly every year, the holidays can be the discretion not to lose after some time, if employees expect these payments.

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