The Pay Investigation Unit's Report, apart from its inaccuracy, inadequacy and discrepancies contained and described in Anne x A ", is of the sole objective to establish the general overall trend of salaries in the private sector. The methodology used is suitable in the United Kingdom where employees are woll-organised
by labour organizations and wages offered by employers would not vary widely, thus is of value in the calculation of median, Whereas, in Hong Kong, wages are not centralized by labour organisations and salary levels of various traders differ considerably. It is claimed by the official-side that adoption of recommendations from the Unit's Reports is a normal, agreed and correct procedure in setting salary structures in the civil service of Hong Kong but they se em to have ignored that such procedure may not produce exact and fair recommendations and that there are always rooms for it to be implemented by a second procedure applicable to particular locality such as Hong Kong and such second procedure. is universally recognized.
The Salary Trends and Fringe Bonefits Report was published by the Hong Kong Productivity Centre in response to the demand for comprehensive data on the salary structure and fringe benefits of administrativo, professional, technical and related staff in the private sector. In order to ensure comparability of jobs and to identify a "rate-for-the-job" for the various categories of personnel surveyed, simple job specifications and descriptions were used in the survey. The job specifications and descriptions of selected posts in commence and industry were prepared on the basis of the "International Standard Classification of Occupations" published by the International Labour Organisation of the United Nations, with slight modifications to fit in with the employment structure in commence and industry in liong Kong.
In drawing up Class Scales on a Master Pay Scale, the Hong Kong Salaries Commission 1971 which was chaired by Sir Georgo Mallaby, KCMG, OBE, the First Civil Service Commissioner in UK (1959-64) and chairman of the Committee on the Staffing of Local Government in the UK (1967), did adopted the sample survey on Salary Movements in industry and commence published by the ilong Kong Productivity Centre in 1970 to supplement the survey of clerical and related occupations made by the Pay Investigation Unit, in their investigation to establish a bench mark for the bottom of the clerical scale which was in line with the private sector and which effectively dictated the starting point of several Government scales.
It thereby proves that adopting information produced by the Hong Kong Productivity Centre to supplement that supplied by the Pay Investigation Unit is not a departure from the normal, agreed and correct procedure in the civil service of long Kong. Nevertheless, this contention was stubbornly rofused to be considered by the official-side.