bonus

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), a bonus it's a gift that is delivered in different celebrations, including Christmas. In many countries, however, the concept is often specifically associated with a Additional payment that an employer performs to its employee.

The bonus, in this sense, is a remuneration that the worker receives beyond twelve wages per month you get per year. Usually it is a extra salary that is divided in two: in this way, the worker receives a half bonus in the middle of the year and half a bonus at the end of the year, at times normally associated with summer and winter vacations.

It is believed that the origin of the Christmas bonus is in a tradition of the ancient Romans who, in New Year, they approached the monarchs with gifts to convey good wishes. This custom was transferred to other cultures, in different contexts. Thus, in various nations, the extraordinary remuneration received by employees so that they can meet the usual expenses that arise at the end of the year parties began to be called a bonus.

It is known that every year millions of people invest large amounts of money on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve dinners, as well as in the corresponding lunches, and this without neglecting the Three Kings Day, very important in Spain, for example. We are not talking about the amount of a dinner in a restaurant, but about small fortunes to entertain the whole family. If to this we add the cost of gifts, then we get a good idea of ​​the usefulness of the bonus.

That said, the Christmas bonus is for said people to support the expenses of the holidays, and therefore they rely on their existence to celebrate their meetings normally, often neglecting the rest of the salaries instead of preparing a saving preventive for potential delays in the payment of the extraordinary amount. That often leads to borrowing, simply to cope with the aforementioned feasts.

The bonus can be established by law or through a collective agreement of a private nature. If we take the case of Argentine legislation, the Christmas bonus is considered as a supplementary type annual salary that is paid in two dues: join the June 30th and another the December 18 th. This means that a worker, in Argentina, must earn thirteen annual salaries.

There are, however, other ways to set the Christmas bonus. On Costa Rica, the bonus arises from the sum of the wages that the worker received between December of the previous year and November of the current year; then this sum is divided by twelve. The Outcome is the bonus, which is paid prior to December 20th.

It should be noted that the people who work in black, that is, without having been discharged by their employer in an adequate and legal way, they usually do not enjoy the Christmas bonus, nor Rights as basic as paid vacations. In the same way, in many work relationships that at first glance could be classified as legal or in white, employers seek all possible means to delay the payment of the Christmas bonus to their workers.

The Christmas bonus is one of the points that companies try to manipulate the most, and this can have repercussions in arrears of several months or even more than a year. To fight any kind of abuse of power, employees should seek professional advice that provides them with the necessary protection and instructs them where and how to make your claims to enjoy all your rights.