golden handcuffs

"We also push stock down through the organization to create golden handcuffs," he said.

You have nothing to lose but your golden handcuffs.

Golden handcuffs are a system of financial incentives designed to keep an employee from leaving the company.

Other businesses are also using deferred-compensation plans to create "golden handcuffs."

The mortgage, the twins, the car payments: All these turned his paycheck into golden handcuffs.

Company pensions were the golden handcuffs which chained staff to a company.

This provision, known as golden handcuffs, is routinely included in executives' contracts to give them incentives to stay.

What that group wants to know, of course, is what he will do when the golden handcuffs come off at the end of next year.

And the golden handcuffs are coming off.

"There isn't usually a mass exodus of employees leaving from the acquiring company so that golden handcuffs are needed to keep them around."

The dignitary lifted the golden handcuffs from the pillow upon which they reposed.

"Or is it already plastered all over the Internet that I'm being fitted for golden handcuffs?"

Changes in Federal pension laws had already helped loosen the golden handcuffs that many Time employees felt held them to the company.

"It was like being in golden handcuffs," he said of his years as the No. 1 pop balladeer on Top-40 radio.

He was bound by golden handcuffs to the Salomon Brothers mortgage trading department.

Advance is private, so Newhouse uses other golden handcuffs.

That may include the size of his salary, since Carlson is known for keeping executives by means of such "golden handcuffs."

And his golden handcuffs turned to dross.

"It was much easier to leave because I didn't have the golden handcuffs," he said of Barnesandnoble.com.

"In effect, the golden handcuffs come off, so management of Continental Airlines will be freer to pursue other opportunities."

Others offer plans with names like "Golden Handcuffs Executive Bonus."

He paid them so well (the top 25 getting new luxury cars every year) that they were said to be bound to the company by golden handcuffs.

However, with the release of the "golden handcuffs", many discontented employees may quit immediately after they've cashed in their stock options.

Meanwhile, the lovers are locked in golden handcuffs, of sorts, as they reside in a "live and raw hotel."

She is best known as the author of the novels Golden Handcuffs and Poles Apart.