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Carl Haynes, president of Teamsters Local 237, demanded that the 18,000 city workers he represents receive a wage increase substantially above inflation and a cash bonus to compensate for the two-year wage freeze the workers accepted in their old contract.
In the proposals that the local presented in March, it called for across-the-board wage increases substantially higher than the inflation rate and a cash bonus to compensate workers for the three-year wage freeze that they took as part of their old contract.
Finally, in most cases, workers were calling for financial bonuses to compensate for increases in their clinical or administrative activities resulting from user fees exemption policies.
Some companies will offer a "bonus" or "travel incentive" to compensate for gas mileage, while others do not.
Existing shareholders would be compensated with bonus shares or stock options.No one is impressed.
Mr Mulally, who replaced Bill Ford as chief executive on September 1, was paid $666,667 in 2006, implying an annual salary of $2m, but received a bonus of $18.5m - including a $7.5m hiring bonus and $11m to compensate for giving up performance and stock option awards at Boeing.
In terms of how teachers should be compensated and evaluated, Mr. Green said he would like to give principals more power, adding that he supported "bonus pay" for teachers who achieved further professional development or advanced degrees.
These men and women know what these losses mean, while international financiers, bankers and bondholders walk away fully compensated, with their bonuses and surreal salaries and profits intact, as if nothing had happened.
If the two sides cannot reach an agreement, the claims will go to court, which will then have to determine whether the long-serving, zero-hours staff had a contractual right to the bonus awards and should therefore be compensated.
These fund managers are compensated mostly with a performance bonus of 20 percent or more of the profits they make.
