Can salary be REPLACED by a bonus.

Xbigman

Is it possible for an employer to force staff from 45 hrs to 40hrs (thus losing 5 hrs pay) and then claim they can earn the same wages as before because there is now a performance bonus that COULD be worth more than the 5 hours pay that was lost.
Those figures are per week.

I should also say the business is losing money and the reason for the drop in hours is to get rid of the overlap on shift patterns.
The phrase used by the management is thats its a 'need of the business' to survive.


X

PS This is a real situation that doesn't affect me financially although I will likely get a shift pattern change.

agrinnall

Generally yes, even if there's a contract of employment that specifies 45 hours per week the employer would be well within their rights to amend that to 40 hours to meet business needs. They could do that without offering the prospect of a bonus, so the fact that one may be available is, well, a bonus.

LittleVoice

Xbigman wrote: »

Is it possible for an employer to force staff from 45 hrs to 40hrs (thus losing 5 hrs pay) and then claim they can earn the same wages as before because there is now a performance bonus that COULD be worth more than the 5 hours pay that was lost.
Those figures are per week.

I should also say the business is losing money and the reason for the drop in hours is to get rid of the overlap on shift patterns.
The phrase used by the management is thats its a 'need of the business' to survive.


X

PS This is a real situation that doesn't affect me financially although I will likely get a shift pattern change.

An 11% cut in hours isn't unreasonable if they would otherwise have to make redundancies because of cost constraints. That's assuming that the cut is in hours worked and they aren't expecting staff to work the hours for nothing but the hope of a bonus.