The business currently pays $12 an hour to all nonmanagers, with
profit-sharing varying throughout the year based on seasonal sales and profits.
Introducing
profit-sharing doesn't mean the restaurant is exempt from paying the new minimum wage, and the
profit-sharing model doesn't mean they have to do any "risk sharing."
The profile of insurers' new business is likely to shift immediately when the new system is introduced, with all newly written with-profits contracts operating under the new
profit-sharing mechanism.
Participation in a
profit-sharing plan typically must be offered to all employees age 21 or older who worked at least 1,000 hours in a previous year.
Therefore, Centamin is not authorised to determine the commencement of
profit-sharing.
Semler sums up his philosophy, 'Participation gives people control of their work,
profit-sharing gives them a reason to do it better, and information tells them what's working and what isn't.' Semler's sensitive to the central problem of the corporation that Peter Drucker highlighted: the dichotomy between the principles of a liberal society and the way companies work.
This can lower the
profit-sharing formula and reduce the employee cost to owners.
'The
profit-sharing programme further aligns compensation with the long-term performance of Citi,' a spokeswoman for the company said.
Officers of the company, including president & CEO Jeff Smisek, handed out
profit-sharing cheques yesterday to employees at airports across its network, including George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston and Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
The company contributes about 12 percent of its pretax earnings to the
profit-sharing plan.