malus

1. (business) 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.Examples: "When bank fired the loan originator, they recovered the last two years of her bonuses under the malus clause in her contract."; "The existence of boni and mali for the different risks can be interpreted through the sign of estimated covariances."; "If the boni and mali do not depend on the frequency of claims, the average bonus-malus coefficient increases with the frequency."

2. (rare) A penalty or negative thing.Examples: "The driver game has a game screen with less number of properties and representations (see Fig. 3(a)). […] If the user completes a level within the allocated time, then the user gets a bonus and will be advanced to another level[,] and if user is unable to complete a level, then a malus is provided and the user gets retained in the same level."rare