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  • Medium-term incentives have been piled upon long-term incentives; annual cash bonuses have become a form of semi-guaranteed salary supplement since 80% of the maximum is now a par score; and vast pension top-ups don't have to go anywhere near a pension pot.

    It's time for high pay reforms, not pleas for restraint | Analysis 2011

  • Here in Canada some employers offer ‘top-ups’, to bring your maternity pay closer to your ordinary pay.

    » Paid Maternity Leave in Australia Strocel.com 2009

  • A number of state governments are going for top-ups to above premium to increase the upper limit of insurance coverage.

    Towards a Healthy India Ashok Varma 2011

  • By now he regarded it as commonsensical for graduates of top courses to pay more, and he insisted top-ups were the inescapable corollary of the state investing in university for the half of the population who he hoped would attend.

    David Willetts: The tide of history man 2011

  • It would mean coping with the imminent funding crisis in the NHS by allowing additional revenue streams into health care from "top-ups" or co-payments.

    Notable & Quotable 2011

  • It would mean coping with the imminent funding crisis in the NHS by allowing additional revenue streams into health care from "top-ups" or co-payments.

    Notable & Quotable 2011

  • Mark Thompson has told BBC staff today that he and other senior executives will give up their pension top-ups, a move which will reduce his own total remuneration by 20%.

    Mark Thompson: I will give up my BBC pension top-ups James Robinson 2010

  • February is traditionally bonus time in the City and this year, banks, fund management firms and hedge funds are paying bumper top-ups to their generous salaries.

    London property prices boosted by bankers' bonuses 2011

  • Strike action during Tory conference threatens BBC's impartiality, say senior presenters and political journalistsBBC political staff's letter to the NUJ? and the union responsesMark Thompson: I will give up my BBC pension top-ups

    Paxman and top BBC journalists warn against strike during Tory conference James Robinson 2010

  • It appears that customers spend money loaded onto cards right away, given the close relationship between purchases and top-ups.

    Starbucks Sees New Growth on the Card John Jannarone 2012

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