It looks like those LEH employees retained by Barclays following the acquisition of LEH's US operations are getting a pretty good deal:

"The firm's plan to sell its North American business to Barclays Plc may cushion the blow for employees. The U.K. bank is buying divisions that have a total of 10,000 workers and disclosed in a court filing it will pay employees it retains 2008 bonuses equal to those in 2007."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...rEQ&refer=home