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They get bonuses?

• jaclaz 7y ago
  Anyway they try to avoid maluses.
  • clairity 7y ago
    "maluses" doesn't seem to be a real word (in american english, anyway), but i like it!
    • jaclaz 7y ago
      I don't know but in Latin there is both bonus and malus, and if we accept the anglophone plural (like one virus, two viruses) it seems fine to me (in Latin it would be mali but it originally is only an adjective). Anyway: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malus https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malus >Noun >malus (plural maluses) > (business) The return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.
      • clairity 7y ago
        yah, being a natural latin antonym was the appeal! and now that you mention it, i think i might have seen that term in a legal context, but it's not used in any other context i am acquainted with.
        • jaclaz 7y ago
          JFYI, here (Italy) bonus/malus is a common name for the formula of most car insurance policies, where basically if you have a car accident (of course if it is your fault) you are demoted 2 "classes" (malus) and if you pass one year without accident you are promoted 1 "class" (bonus). The "entrance class" is the 14th, worst is 18th and best is 1st.