0 an extra payment that is given to someone for accepting a new job
1 a payment made to an executive when they start work at a company:
Instead of golden handshakes we have the "golden hello"and"golden handcuffs".
An external contractor will select 1,000 new graduates each year, to be paid a £5,000 "golden hello".
In 2001–02, all newly appointed general practitioners receive a golden hello payment of up to £5,000.
In the vocabulary of pay increases, the golden hello has now taken place alongside the golden handshake.
We extended the scheme with the new graduate salaries—£6,000 for nine months' training—and added the golden hello of £4,000 for those who actually take up teaching.
We do so in particular in those shortage areas where, because of the new bursary system and "golden hello" payments for those entering the profession, we have seen a turnaround.
Fifthly, there should be a joining bounty for regulars who join the reserves—a golden hello for regulars who stay on in reservist service—because we need their experience.
The other day, a chap who had just left college told me that, because of the "golden hello", he was becoming a mathematics teacher—good luck to him.
