Regional Policies

Bulgaria

Rules and Regulations

A cash bonus will be paid to active Sutherland employees who refer qualified external applicants who are hired into the company and reach their milestone dates.

All REFER Bonuses are paid out following the pay period during which the referred employee meets their milestone employment date(s). All milestone dates are based on the referred employee’s start date.

All referrals must be documented and acknowledged by the Talent Acquisition Team to be eligible for payment.

New German Refer for Rewards Campaign:

Refer your German C1 speaking friends between December 1^st, 2023, and March 1^st, 2024. The first 5 of you with the most successful hired referrals for work from office positions, but minimum of 3 successful hires, will receive an Apple Watch SE. 

Process for Referring an Applicant:

• All referrals must be submitted through the referral form on the REFER portal prior to the referred applicant’s completion of the application.
• When you submit a referral, you will receive a submission confirmation from the REFER portal system. This does not confirm eligibility for the bonus, only that the submission was received.
• All referrals will be processed by the Talent Acquisition Team.
• Referrals will be reviewed for bonus eligibility when the referred applicant meets the specified milestone dates.

Policy:

The REFER Program is open to all consultant-level employees of Sutherland.

Sutherland employees may refer anyone to the company regardless of their relationship to the applicant.

• If the person you refer is a re-hire (ex-Sutherland employee), to be eligible for a bonus , their exit date should be more than 18 months prior to the referral submission.

• All referrals are valid for six months. After six months, a referral must be resubmitted to qualify for the bonus.

• The REFER program is designed to reward employees who engage new or returning candidates. If a referral is submitted for an applicant who has a completed application in the system, that applicant must have had six months of inactivity (not involved in an active selection process for any role) for the referring employee to be eligible for the bonus.

• If two or more employees refer the same applicant, the Referral Form received first will qualify for the bonus payout.

• Both the referring employee and the referred applicant must be actively employed on the milestone date(s) for the referral to qualify for the bonus. Breaks in employment during the qualifying period will void eligibility.

• Employees with influence over the hiring process will not be paid for referring applicants to the programs over which they have influence. This includes, but is not limited to, employees from Human Resources, Talent Acquisition and Hiring Managers.

• The bonus will be paid in cash on the paycheck following the pay period during which the referred applicant achieves completion of their milestone.

Referred candidates will be contacted upon suitable openings. All referrals must possess a minimum of B2 English proficiency, unless they are referred for a position that specifically requires proficiency in the primary language only.

*50% paid after the first month of the date of joining of the referral, 50% after 6 months

All amounts are gross. All amounts apply only to permanent positions.

*English is required as a second language at the B2 level for each of the languages.

• For the purposes of this policy, the term ‘start date’ will specifically refer to an employee’s first day of work, and not the date an applicant accepts an offer of employment.

• REFER campaigns are geared toward incentivizing and rewarding our consultants to REFER within their work peer group and to support our programs globally. Only consultant-level employees are eligible for reward when they REFER in support of our clients.

• If your referral is hired for a part time role, the Refer a Friend bonus will be proportionally calculated of the amount set for the respective language based on the working hours of the given employment.