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(c) To repeat and emphasize the statement of the Priestley
Report para. 146. We trust that a good employer seeks rather to provide stability and continuity of the employment and consults with representatives of his employees upon changes that affect both their remeration and their conditions of work.
"A good employer provides adequate facilities for
training and advancement....."
The present policies adopted by the Government are in fact contradictory to the Priestley Report, especially to the S.A.T. grade.
(d) The reputability, applicability, plus accuracy of the P.I.U.
Report are proved to be doubtful. The practical problema
are:-
(1)
The limited scopes and source of reference - 68 major companies selected for the purposes of P.I.U. Report, galy 17 companies were picked out for the purpose of setting the pay scales for 5.4. .s in 1970. These 17 good coplovers so regarded, cannot and will not yield true or meaningful figures in terms of salary scale for S.A.T.8.
(ii) The statement of principles and aims in Civil Service
remmer tion (Establishment Circular 7/71), is
inconsistent with the 1953/55 Priestley Royal Commission on the U.K. Civil Service both in theories and applications. The P.I.U. openly adopted the Priestley Report and admitted that the fact-finding be confined to good employers only. We repeat that we agree to their defined median and upper quartile of rates of pay; but we must point out that the 17 good employers involved in the survey did not earn the credit and reputation, as the ranges and numbers of figures involved are far too limited.
C. Report on Salary Trends & Fringe Bencfits
-HI.K. Productivity Centre
(a) The Report is the fourth in a series published by the Hong Kong Productivity Centre in response to the demand for comprehensive data on the salary structure and fringe benefits of administrative, professional, teclmical and related staff in commerce and industry which represents some 30% of the economically active papalation in Hong Kong.
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(b) The study had been expanded in scope to include more industrial
sectors, a large number of companies and a more comprehensive coverage of personnel employed within the limits of the data available, the study shows that the salaries of administrative, professional, technical and related staff increased by 9% from March 1975 to March 1976.
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