Tata Steel to give bonus to 30,155 employees
Tata Steel to give bonus to 30,155 employees
Jamshedpur: Tata Steel on Thursday announced an annual bonus of 18.5% of salary/wages for the year 2010-11. Nearly 30155 employees would be paid the annual bonus, the total payout on account of which will be ₹ 171 crore approximately.
A company press release said, “Since all employees of the steel company are drawing salary/wages higher than the limit laid down in the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965, no employee of the company is eligible for bonus under the act. However, respecting our old traditions, the company is going to pay bonus to all employees in the unionized category".
A memorandum of settlement was signed between the steel company and the Tata workers’ union here in this regard for the accounting year 2010-2011, the release said.
The memorandum of settlement was signed by H. M. Nerurkar, managing director, Tata Steel and other senior officials on behalf of the company’s management and Raghunath Pandey, president, Tata workers’ union and other office bearers, on behalf of the union, in presence of Akhilesh Kumar, conciliation officer and deputy labor commissioner, Jamshedpur, the release said.
While the maximum bonus will ₹ 1,30,463, the minimum will be ₹ 26,610, Pandey told the news agency.
The total payout on account of annual bonus for the year 2010-2011 will be ₹ 171 crore approximately against ₹ 143 crore last year, he said.
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