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    Angry Can Your Employer Reduce Your Bonus for Being Late for Work

    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Ohio.

    I am a commission based sales employee at an automotive business in ohio, and my employer seems to take any chance or opportunity to dock commission pay from her employees. Being one minute late to the timeclock? $50 deduction from your bonus. Making a typo on a car serial number on a contract? $200 deduction. If she can prove that your sale wasnt up to her arbitrary pricing standards, she takes the difference out of your check, down to the last cent. Even if you catch these mistakes and fix them yourself, no mercy, youre charged even if it didnt lose the company a cent.

    My question involves the legality of these practices. On the day we were hired we signed quite a bit of paperwork, even if all this was somehow disclosed to us, it seems excessive and exploitative. How hard would a case to get those deductions back be? Do I have to prove I signed under duress, or was intimidated into cooperation?

    Side note, I am leaving the company anyway, I am not worried about repercussions.

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    Default Re: Can Your Employer Reduce Your Bonus for Being Late for Work

    Unless you have a contractual right to receive a bonus, you have no right to receive a bonus. If you do have a contractual right to receive a bonus, but the bonus policy allows these deductions, then they're part of how the bonus is calculated.

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    Default Re: Can Your Employer Reduce Your Bonus for Being Late for Work

    Since you know the criteria, I would say maybe you shouldn't be late to work and you should be extra careful. The reason there are penalties is because these things are obviously important to the business/her. One way to incentivize (or disincentivize) employees is to tie their job performance to pay such as a bonus. Sounds like this is what she is doing and you do have control over those issues.

    If there is a written bonus policy and job performance is a factor, then there is absolutely no way to get those deductions back ...all you can do is make sure you don't make the mistakes in the future.

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