I need advice for getting added to my company’s retention bonus pool. I’m a 4th year level employee at a financial firm in NY.
I joined at the beginning of 2021 and a year later we were bought by another company. At the time, everyone was offered a retention bonus if they stay through the end of 2023 (2 years). Except I was on a full-time contract (company blamed it on headcount restraints), so HR didn’t add me to the bonus pool. I formally joined on as “true” full-time in mid-2022 and my boss and I asked HR about adding me to the bonus pool they said it was a shut deal and they won’t reopen it.
We’ve since had a few people leave and successfully negotiate partial bonuses. Granted they are more senior than myself. But now there’s definitely extra money in the pool.
How should I approach this? I was contracted by the company directly and not through an agency.