After a test of mettle, KGHM and miners reach accord

"We know that the company's earnings are higher than anticipated. The employees deserve a bonus, as they had the most influence on the posting of this result," said Ryszard Zbrzyzny, head of trade unions at the company. According to other stipulations of the agreement between the unions and the firm's management, employees will receive a bonus amounting to average remuneration on profit ranging from zl.200-500 million, but annually each of them can receive, at most, three such bonuses. The management board is satisfied with the solution. "It tidied up the system of paying out bonuses on earnings, which was very important to us," said Radoslaw Poraj-Rózecki, spokesman of KGHM. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 5) M.M.