Should you expect a christmas bonus?

Yes 50 is ****e and could hardly be called a bonus

you can give vouchers up to a certain limit and not have to pay BIK ( sorry ELM327 beat me to it )

I got £1,000 from my last job for Christmas. Not bad seeing as how I was only there for three months.

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

None of your business tbh.

You could have just given a percentage value of your salary without having to get defensive.


On the OP's point, no one should really expect a Christmas bonus unless terms and conditions are outlined what it'll take to merit it (sales targets, profit margin etc), or it's specifically outlined in your contract.

They lose their purpose if blindly given year after year and can cause poor moral if they are withdrawn, even if justifiably so.

Not unless you work for the Luas :-o

But seriously, no, never received a bonus at Christmas. We may get a One4All voucher, but thats about it.

i used to get 1 weeks wages as my christmas bonus. very decent bonus i thought.

Back in 2006-2009 when I was in the building industry the Christmas bonuses were immense. As a junior estimator I got €1,300 the first year and €1,700 the next two years.

In my last job the bonuses were horrendous for normal staff but were massive for the owners. In my current job we get Perfect Incentive cards for quite substantial amounts. Everyone including the boss gets the same. We also get 10% of the monthly profits each month divided between us which is taxed as normal. We are very lucky to get a Christmas bonus on top of this.

Bonuses shouldn't be expected but be grateful if you do get one. There's no obligation at all on a company to give them and it depends IMO on how well the company is doing whether or not they would give them.

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

I run a small business, and employ 11 people. No way in hell I'd be paying any of them a Christmas bonus. They work for their pay, and that's more than enough for most of them. Never underestimate how lazy and incompetent the average human can be.

Thank fcuk I don't work for you!

We receive an annual bonus but it's not at Xmas and that's fine , it's in the next years first quarter and usually decided end of the previous year and based on performance up to a maximum of 10% of your salary which I think is pretty good.

I got 10% last year , most people are in and around that or 5 - 7.5%.

As a servant of the people, I shan’t be expecting one, not even a one-year membership in the Jelly of the Month Club.

BrokenArrows wrote: »

If your staff are that **** then i suggest you look for better staff.

The lads who work for me are very much manual labour grunts. The majority of them are Eastern European, as thick as two short planks, and have serious issues with alcohol consumption. They load heavy things into vans, unload them, and sometimes they will install these heavy things (commercial kitchen equipment). I could replace any of them in the morning, and not skip a heartbeat. They certainly don't deserve any sort of bonus. They don't offer any sort of differentiating skill that makes them worthy of a bonus. If they don't like that, then they can go and find another job. I'm doing most of them a favour by giving them a job in the first place. It's a small business I'm running, not bloody Goldman Sachs.