My wife works at a school in South Africa. Her and another colleague are the managers responsible for their branch. She handles the teacher's, classrooms, staff, maintenance and correspondence with the parents. Her boss also relies on her to put out metaphorical fires at other branches so she gets moved around a lot.
Her colleague is responsible for the administration and bookkeeping. They've just had their performance reviews and audit. My wife sailed through her reviews with flying colours, but her colleague failed the audit. Now neither of them are getting a bonus.
Is this ethical? Does she have any recourse? I don't think her bonus should be dependent on the performance of her colleague, especially given that her personal reviews were great.