Siemens Premium General and job for life

Siemens: Premium General and "job for life".

The sum is tidy. In November, Siemens announced that it would devote premiums EUR 310 million to its 400,000 employees worldwide, with the exception of the top management who is not concerned. Close to 1,000 euros should fall into the each employee in January anyway. But the conglomerate did not stop there. In Germany, in the wake of Bosch, porch or Audi, Siemens has advanced, as the law permits, of two months the grant of increases ( 2.7).

Finally, taking the opposite of multinational companies, including German, in 2009, had asked their teams to lower their wages do not lose their jobs, the Group has renewed an agreement to offer its German employees "job for life", pledging to avoid, to the extent possible, the redundancies linked to operational requirements during workforce adjustments.

In France, where the Group employs 8,000 people, mandatory annual negotiations are underway.

Oracle: officials denounce their individual bonus

The climate is tense in Oracle France. Software Editor is beginning its second social plan since the crisis, following the acquisition of Sun. However, this summer, a majority of executives received the management of the abandonment of the bonuses which were included in their contract of employment, considered "opaque" and too "discretionary". Nearly 600 executives have signed an endorsement in their contract to collect, in place of these individual premiums, an overall increase of their fixed salary, ranging from 3 to 10 on each bonus. Only one half of them have not signed.

BNP Paribas: an historical agreement

Approximately 95 of the 60,000 employees of BNP Paribas are concerned. Following the October negotiations, those involving an annual gross remuneration (excluding variables) under 30,000 euros will get 500 euros of perennial increase. And those whose salary ranges between 30,000 and 75,000 euros will be 450 euros to increase. It is the first time that the Bank signed an agreement of this magnitude. An effort is also made for managers of 50 years and more, with the creation of an annual salary fixed minimum of 34.620 euros. All to do not disadvantage the seniors, including the professional development often stops as soon as the status of framework reached. The revision of wage situation (increases and promotions) grid was also adjusted by 10. Finally, employees of Ile-de-France, outside Paris, will receive an annual premium of 240 euros to overcome the disadvantages of transportation.

Google: the palme generosity

An e-mail to Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, its employees confirmed: on the eve of the resumption, Google is not stingy when it comes to keeping its troops. The 10 increase in salaries of its 23,000 employees in January adds a bonus of 1,000 dollars, so that everyone feels "to be rewarded for the large provided work." Cherry on the cake, the CEO said had become aware, through its staff satisfaction surveys, "fixed salary seemed more important than any other component of compensation" in their eyes. It therefore promises to integrate part of bonus in the basic salary of each, to be able to "count on revenues" on receipt of salary newsletter. This does not preclude individual actions: according site TechCrunch, Google would have offered a few days ago, 3.5 million in shares an engineer to decline an offer of Facebook. Management says little. But, ironically, these information can be found easily on the Web... with the search engine of the company. The employee who revealed to the press that the group planned to increase wages by 10 has been licensed...