APPENDIX
1.
Strength of the Public Service
The size of Hong Kong's Service in round figures is:-
Local officers
Overseas officers
80,000
1,900
81,900
The
The overseas officers include 1,300 on pensionable terms.
remaining 600 serving on contract or temporary transfer terms.
There is no overseas Service Aid Scheme Agreement with the Hong
Kong Government.
2.
Salaries Commission
The 1971 Salaries Commission which the Hong Kong Government is
still considering has made the following major recommendations
in their Report that,
(a) The present scales should be replaced by a
system of class scales grouped by comparable function;
(b)
the Government should consider setting up an
Industrial Civil Service, separate from the Civil
Service, with its own terms related to the industrial
Some 41,000 Government
class of the private sector.
Servants are in this group;
(c) there should be substantial increases in pay
tapering off at the higher level;
(a) education allowances should be paid for children
of local and overseas officers educated in Hong Kong.
Overseas education allowances for local and overseas
officers should be raised to the same rate as under the
Overseas Service Aid Scheme elsewhere;
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