If you get laid off March through Dec, AFTER they paid you the bonus for the year before, HR will pay you a prorated amount of the bonus for the CURRENT year.
But people laid off in January or Februray, if your last working day is before the cutoff date (the date you have to be employed by to get your bonus for 2025), what happens then? Technically you are no longer employed at usb on 2/27/26 the cut off date.
DO they
- give you 100% of your target bonus from 2025 only (since there's nothing to prorate since 2025 is over)
- give you NOTHING for the whole year from 2025 and a small prorated bonus for 2026
- both of the above 1 and 2 combined
Ideally #3, but #1 would be ok also. But it better not be #2 because they would be f*d up.
If you think about it, if they lay you off in January and fk you over, you would have been paid more** if you were laid off late last year instead of early this year.
Anyone with an actual answer, not speculation peanut gallery, please reply. Thanks!