Staff Relations in the Hong Kong Government
A Report by Richard Morris
Factual Errors
Paragraph 3
It is not correct that Civil Service Regulations permit the Government to dismiss an employee who withdraws his labour in furtherance of a trade dispute. Civil Service Regulation reads as follows :-
610.
The relevant
1) If an officer, without reasonable excuse, for any period :·
(a) is absent from his place of work; or (b) refuses to perform any of his usual
duties or any part of them; or
(c) omits to perform any of his usual duties
or any part of them,
then there may be deducted from his salary or wages by order of the Secretary for the Civil Service such proportion thereof as the Secretary for the Civil Service shall decide is attributable to :-
(i) the period of the officer's absence from
his place of work or the period during which he refused or omitted to perform any of his usual duties; or
(ii) the part of his usual duties which the
officer has refused or omitted to perform,
as appropriate..
(2) For the purposes of this regulation:-
(a) it shall not be a reasonable excuse that an
officer absented himself from work or refused or omitted to perform any of his usual duties or any part of them in connection with a trade dispute;
(b) "usual duties" means the duties of an
officer as described in Civil Service Regulation 401.