UPDATED : Thursday, 15 May, 2014, 8:02am
Frustrated commuters might be consoled knowing senior MTR staff will pay for delays. Photo: David Wong
Frustrated commuters might be consoled knowing senior MTR staff will pay for delays. Photo: David Wong
The threat of pay cuts will hang over the MTR's senior management as a penalty for serious service disruptions, the transport minister announced yesterday - as it emerged that he had earlier tendered his resignation at the height of anger over revelations about a two-year delay in the construction of a high-speed railway to Guangzhou.
This month's offer to quit from Secretary for Transport and Housing Professor Anthony Cheung Bing-leung was rejected by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, a person familiar with the situation said.
Cheung said yesterday that the MTR Corporation would come down hard on future disruptions to train services by linking part of high-ranking employees' pay to serious incidents.
"The [MTR board] has … decided to include the occurrence of serious service disruptions as a consideration in the payment of performance-based remuneration to the corporation's senior management staff in future," he said.
The board members themselves are already subject to a performance factor in their pay.
Last year, HK$5 million of the HK$13 million MTR chief executive Jay Walder received was connected to his work performance.
Frustrated commuters might be consoled knowing senior MTR staff will pay for delays. Photo: David Wong
Frustrated commuters might be consoled knowing senior MTR staff will pay for delays. Photo: David Wong
The threat of pay cuts will hang over the MTR's senior management as a penalty for serious service disruptions, the transport minister announced yesterday - as it emerged that he had earlier tendered his resignation at the height of anger over revelations about a two-year delay in the construction of a high-speed railway to Guangzhou.
This month's offer to quit from Secretary for Transport and Housing Professor Anthony Cheung Bing-leung was rejected by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, a person familiar with the situation said.
Cheung said yesterday that the MTR Corporation would come down hard on future disruptions to train services by linking part of high-ranking employees' pay to serious incidents.
"The [MTR board] has … decided to include the occurrence of serious service disruptions as a consideration in the payment of performance-based remuneration to the corporation's senior management staff in future," he said.
The board members themselves are already subject to a performance factor in their pay.
Last year, HK$5 million of the HK$13 million MTR chief executive Jay Walder received was connected to his work performance.
