Labour Market Forum 2010 - Planning Institute of Jamaica

Elements of performance payments are production incentives,
performance bonuses, profit sharing, share participation,
special awards such as dinners, paid holiday/special event
trips, non-monetary recognition and reward, etc.
These perhaps represent the best established cafeteria type
payment systems in the Caribbean. This is especially so at the
senior levels where incumbents and prospective employees are
allowed to negotiate the structure and nature of pay/reward.
Cafeteria type systems are not much in evidence in the
Caribbean, perhaps because they are very costly to
administer. An example from Cincinnati State Contract
AGREEMENT BETWEEN CINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND
COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND SEIU/ DISTRICT 925, AFL/CIO, CLC:
Article 44
Cafeteria Benefits Plan
Effective September 1, 1996, the College shall provide a
"Cafeteria" style benefit plan, (the Cafeteria Benefits Plan per
the S.G. Donahue and Co. proposal) with the College
providing a predetermined amount of benefit dollars sufficient
for each eligible full time employee to "purchase" the following
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