clawback vs malus

clawback

noun
  • Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine. 

  • A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly turned over to the other party but to which the other party would not have been entitled. 

  • Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision. 

malus

noun
  • The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance. 

  • A penalty or negative thing. 

  • A plant of the genus Malus (the apples). 

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