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Appendix 10
Possible changes in Civil Service
maternity leave arrangements
If the recommendations of the Working Group on laternity Leave are implemented for the private sector through amendments to the Employment Ordinance, the Civil Service Branch of the Government Secretariat will consider making the following two changes to the Civil Service maternity leave arrangements:-
Specific
Maternity
leave
provision
Rate of pay
entitlement
during
maternity
leave
Working
Group's
recommenda-
tion
2/3 wages
throughout
maternity leave
Current
Fossible
Civil
Civil
Service
practice
1⁄2 pay after earned leave exhausted
Service practice
Full pay to end of the 6th week follow- ing confinement, or the end of the 10th
week of the total absence, whichever is earlier. There- after, earned leave or unpaid leave as officer chooses.
Offsetting of earned leave
2.
Not examined by orking Croup as this provision is Civil Service only
Officer must exhaust casual and vacation leave balances before being granted paid or unpaid maternity leave
Officer to be permit ted to take part or all of her earned
leave in lieu of unpaid maternity leave.
It might also become necessary, depending upon whether or not the two major changes in paragraph 1 above are implemented for the private sector, to consider two further changes:
Specific
maternity
leave
provision
Limit on
number of
children for
paid maternity
leave
Qualifying period
Working Group's
recomenda- tions
First 2 surviving children
Current Civil
Service practice
No limit
26 weeks' continuous
12 months'
service
employment
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Possible Civil
Service practice
Some limit (still to be decided)
6 months'
service
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