8.
representation on SCSC and its salary reviews are determined by a
committee made up of local businessmen of standing.
From sub-directorate to junior level, staff occupations are slotted
into a 48-point Master Pay Scale which ranged in 1977 from HK$755 a
month at Point 1 to HK$9445 a month at Point 48 (9). Movement to higher
points within the MPS is conditioned either by promotion according to
criteria of merit confidentially evaluated by superiors, or by group and.
individual bargaining power expressed in the ability to achieve an upward
reclassification of occupation and thus a higher place on the incremental
scale. As with the pay trend surveys, which set the agenda for consult-
ations at the SCSC on service-wide pay increases, the Pay Structure
Department of the CSB conducts pay level surveys in the private sector
to discover the renumeration of analogue occupations in the private
sector where these exist and when the reclassification of occupations
in claims to receive higher increments is under discussion.
ctor.
A considerable number though gradually diminishing group of manual
employees remain on a separate Model Scale 1, which is divided into four
classes: unskilled, semi-skilled, artisan and senior artisan. In April.
-1976, wages ranged from a minimum of HK$840 a month to a maximum of
HK$1265 a month (10). Increases for this group, who are formally unrep
resented in the central pay consultation machinery, are unilaterally
awarded by the government in the form of 'cost of living allowances',
calculated according to changes in the consumer price index.
It is the government's intention to gradually incorporate Model Scale 1
employees into.the MPS and thus the pensionable.establishment. Since
(9) Hong Kong Government, Master Pay Scale, 1977.
(10) Hong Kong Government, Scale Model 1, 1976.