Question juridique clé
Whether the employee was entitled to salary variable or contractual bonus payments for 2008 and 2009
Solution extraite
No. The extra payments promised for 2006 and 2007 were tied to recruitment and could not, under the parties' trust-based interpretation, be understood as a promise of future payments beyond 2007.
Motifs extraits
The Court held that the contract distinguished salary from gratuity. Given the recruitment context, the fixed additional amounts already paid, and the express reservation in the contract and employee manual, the employer did not owe further variable salary or agreed bonus for later years.