Only a private agreement that doesn't include bonuses.

In particular, bonuses based on medium term results of risky trades and investments must supplant bonuses based on short term outcomes.

To put it in perspective, the Christmas bonuses paid this year on Wall Street just the bonuses amounted to 24 billion.

Taxes levied on executive bonuses have cost international banks dearly.

Irresponsibility among cabinet members can be addressed by eliminating their bonuses.

This government is ruining us with their double bonuses, she complains.

In the future, 70 of their bonuses will have to be deferred.

Executives collected generous bonuses, and equity holders were protected by limited liability.

A call for the repayment of past bonuses was received with applause.

Managers' salaries including bonuses for failed or departing directors have reached new highs.

CAMBRIDGE Goldman Sachs announced this month plans to provide bonuses at record levels, and there are widespread expectations that bonuses and pay in many other firms will rise substantially this year.

The focus of that anger has been the massive and unwise financial sector bonuses.

Companies reduce their superfluous employees annual bonuses, but do not get rid of them.

For starters, the use of bonuses based on one year results should be discouraged.

And what about the second tax proposed by the IMF, on banks profits and bonuses?

Anger has come to focus on banking executives huge compensation packages, composed largely of bonuses.

Banks were too busy collecting fees on new loans, and paying their managers outlandish bonuses.

Anger at these profits and bonuses only tends to increase the contagion of the story.

The banks can report record profits without much risk, rebuild capital, and pay dividends and bonuses.

Between May and July, UK earnings excluding bonuses grew 2.9 compared with the same period last year.

Were you just pulling my leg when you said we were all going to get extra bonuses?

I also proposed offering schoolchildren, who passed GTO, bonuses upon entering an institute of higher education, Valuev noted.

On the contrary, these bankrupts are filing lawsuits to get the million dollar bonuses to which they feel entitled.

Wall Street employees received more in annual bonuses ( 33.2 billion) in 2007, the year before the global financial meltdown.

The alleged justification for this major interference in private contracting is the systemic effect that these bonuses can have.

The US economy is in a mess even if growth has resumed, and bankers are once again receiving huge bonuses.

Of course, taxation of financial firms profits and bonuses should be made more similar to that of other economic activities.

The result is large re enlistment bonuses, improved benefits, and higher recruiting costs up 20 just from 2003 to 2005.

But, while bank profitability and bonuses have returned, lending has not recovered, despite record low long and short term interest rates.

Similarly, while bankers have regained their bonuses, workers are seeing their wages eroded and their hours diminished, further widening the income gap.

For starters, the use of bonuses based on one year results should be discouraged. Furthermore, bonuses should not be paid immediately, but rather placed in a company account for several years and adjusted downward if the company subsequently learns that the reason for awarding a bonus no longer holds up.

Unfettered markets may produce big bonuses for CEO s, but they do not lead, as if by an invisible hand, to societal well being.

Two decades ago, Japanese workers could expect to receive massive year end bonuses, typically amounting to one third of their salary or more.

CHICAGO In its July session, the European parliament approved some of the strictest rules in the world on the bonuses paid to bankers.

Many people object to business managers who take away in pay, bonuses, and stock options hundreds of millions of dollars from their companies.

Existing labour laws (introduced after 1979) make it costly for employers to hire workers, who benefit from compulsory bonuses and generous severance payments.

Substantial public rescue funds have reportedly been siphoned off to foreign banks, Goldman Sachs, and staff bonuses for purposes unrelated to protecting public interests.

Knowing that the government will pick up the pieces if necessary, they will postpone resolving mortgages and pay out billions in bonuses and dividends.

As a result, regulatory reforms have thus far consisted of, first, a threat to the Federal Reserve s autonomy, and, second, a tax on bonuses.

Currently, bank managers receive their bonuses at the beginning of each year, with the level based on their individual performance during the previous year.

And I thought about it, and I said, CEOs often pay themselves million dollar bonuses, even when companies are losing a lot of money.

Indeed, even if things turned ugly and banks equity suffered, executives knew that their own generous bonuses and pension packages most likely would not.

Bankers, who may really be worried about their own bonuses, warn that higher capital requirements will force them to curtail lending, thus impeding economic growth.

Unfortunately, there is no publicly available data to establish a causal relationship between bonuses pay for performance sensitivity and risk taking for lower level managers.

Rubin, a former US Treasury Secretary and ex Chairman of Goldman Sachs, presided over the collapse of Citigroup while taking home 150 million in bonuses.