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Thursday, 29 February 2024

HR News: 1 Mar, 2024

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Salary raise for Hong Kong Airlines staff

Pilots and technical staff will get a 5% raise, while flight crew and ground staff will see a 3.8% increase in their base salaries. Hong Kong Airlines is giving its employees a pay raise. Starting 1 February 2024, eligible workers will see their salaries go up. Flight crews and ground staff will see a 3.8 per cent increase, while technical staff, such as those in maintenance and engineering, will receive a larger raise of 5 per cent. These boosts are determined by how well employees performed in their appraisals last year. Pilots with Hong Kong Airlines will also benefit from a potential increase of up to five per cent in their hourly flying rate. Additionally, staff members remain eligible for discretionary variable incentives, contingent upon both the company’s performance and the individual’s fulfilment of specified appraisal criteria, similar to the previous year. The decision to increase salaries comes after Hong Kong Airlines had a great year in 2023. It managed to bring back 25 destinations and had a high passenger load of 85 per cent. In China itself, the airline managed to resume flights to eight cities last year. It also added more flights to connect Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland. The airline acknowledges the contribution of its staff in terms of their efforts and hard work in making sure that passengers flew safe, and revenue kept coming in and flights adhered to their schedules, even during tough times.

 

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Central employees DA to hike to 50%

It is set to be implemented retrospectively from 1 January, 2024. Anticipated in March, the Dearness Allowance (DA) for Central government employees is poised to witness a four per cent hike. It is set to be implemented retrospectively from 1 January, 2024. Consequently, the DA for the period from January to March will be disbursed as arrears. This allowance is specifically designated for government employees, while pensioners receive Dearness Relief (DR). The adjustment of DA occurs biannually, typically in January and July, with official announcements commonly made in March. The prescribed formula, rooted in the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission, will be adhered to for the impending DA increase. The most recent adjustment was made in October 2023, when the cabinet increased DR for pensioners and DA for government employees by four per cent, elevating the DA from 42 per cent to 46 per cent.

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100% placements for XLRI Jamshedpur, Delhi NCR; avg. salary of Rs 29 lpa


503 students comprising the batch of 2022-24 received job offers, with the highest domestic offer being Rs 75 lakhs per year in the BFSI sector. All 503 students of XLRI School of Management, which has campuses in Jamshedpur as well as Delhi NCR, have received job offers in the placement process that ended recently. The average salary offered was that of Rs 29.89 lakh per annum. Additionally, 33.39 per cent of the students bagged pre-placement offers (PPOs) too. The Institute has revealed that its batch of 2022-24 students across the postgraduate diploma in management – business management and human resource management (BM and HRM) have received job offers. The highest domestic package offered was of Rs 75 lakh per annum, from the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector. The median salary was Rs 28 lakh per annum. It is pertinent to mention here that the median salary offered to the outgoing batch of 2023 was Rs 30 lakhs per annum with the top 10th and 25th percentile averages were Rs 57.7 lakhs and Rs 46.8 lakhs per annum, respectively. The average salary had seen an increase to Rs 32.7 lakhs per annum from Rs 30.7 lakhs per annum in 2022. The highest domestic offer was Rs 78.2 lakhs per annum from the ITES sector and the highest international offer was Rs 1.1 crore per annum for the HR domain. The top domains based on the roles offered were consulting, sales and marketing, and BFSI, with 43.8 per cent of the students receiving PPOs.

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