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Veteran university staff might receive one-off payment

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The University of Hong Kong is considering a 'one-off' payment to long-serving staff, vice-chancellor Tsui Lap-chee said yesterday.

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The performance-based payment would be made to staff hired on an old salary scheme who had already reached the maximum pay scale, he said.

Professor Tsui said 80 per cent of teaching staff were on the old pay scale and some salary adjustment was necessary.

It is not known how many would be eligible.

It is aimed at making long-serving staff eligible for a discretionary benefit that is now given to top-performing staff under a new pay agreement.

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Professor Tsui termed the payment a 'reward' rather than a bonus, saying he did not wish to give staff the wrong impression as the university did not have a bonus system.

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