Paying out bonuses in uncertain times

Bonus payments are now offered by 80% of employers, with just 14% of those surveyed here definitely not offering such payments.

Whereas firms planned to increase basic pay by 2.8% on average last year, the out-turn was an increase of 3%, according to the results of a survey carried out by Industrial Relations News and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD Ireland), the representative body of human resources practitioners.

The survey was in January and was completed by 536 organisations.