Hello learned members and seniors,
I work for a small family business in Mumbai, that was started by the current director's father about 50 years back. The total count of employees (including the Housekeeping staff) is 8. The founder of the firm used to give a month's pay as a Diwali bonus to all of his employees, but we do not wish to give such a bonus to the two new joiners. Since the other 6 employees have been working with us for the last 20-30 years, we cannot stop giving them the bonus. The director is now in a dilemma of how to tell the new joiners that they will not be getting a bonus (we do not want to have bad blood in the firm) or any other way out of this situation as giving the new joiners a bonus will lead to negativity in the older employees (Excluding the Housekeeping staff, all of the others are somewhat on a similar pay scale).
I would be much obliged if you'll help me with this employee relations issue.
Thanking you in advance.
I work for a small family business in Mumbai, that was started by the current director's father about 50 years back. The total count of employees (including the Housekeeping staff) is 8. The founder of the firm used to give a month's pay as a Diwali bonus to all of his employees, but we do not wish to give such a bonus to the two new joiners. Since the other 6 employees have been working with us for the last 20-30 years, we cannot stop giving them the bonus. The director is now in a dilemma of how to tell the new joiners that they will not be getting a bonus (we do not want to have bad blood in the firm) or any other way out of this situation as giving the new joiners a bonus will lead to negativity in the older employees (Excluding the Housekeeping staff, all of the others are somewhat on a similar pay scale).
I would be much obliged if you'll help me with this employee relations issue.
Thanking you in advance.