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INTRODUCTION
In January 1979 His Excellency the Governor appointed us to be Members of a Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service with the following terms of reference :
I (a) to review, and keep under review, the principles and
practices governing the class, grade, rank and salary structure of the Civil Service, and to recommend to the Governor any changes it considers to be necessary;
(b)
(c)
(a)
(e)
to advise the Governor on appropriate means of carrying out regular and systematic reviews of the salary and structure of individual grades, to oversee the carrying out of such reviews, and to recommend to the Governor any changes in salary and structure it considers to be necessary;
to advise the Governor on whether overall reviews of the Master Pay Scale and other non-Directorate Pay Scales (as opposed to reviews of the salary of individual grades) should continue to be based on surveys of pay trends in the private sector conducted by the Pay Investigation Unit and subject to the advice of the Senior Civil Service Council; or whether some other mechanism should be substituted;
to advise the Governor on those conditions of service listed in paragraph 7(1) of the 1968 Agreement between the Hong Kong Government and the Main Staff Associations
(see Note), where such conditions of service are referred to the Commission jointly by the Official and Staff Sides of the Senior Civil Service Council;
to advise the Governor on suitable procedures to enable staff associations (including individual grade associations) to discuss with management their views on matters within the terms of reference of the Commission;
(f) to advise the Governor on the circumstances in which it would be appropriate for the Commission itself to consider any issue, and on how staff associations and management might represent their views to the Commission in such circumstances;
(g)
to consider whether, and if so how, the Commission should advise on conditions of service matters other than those referred to in (d), particularly conditions of service affecting individual grades or groups;
(h) to advise the Governor on such matters as he may refer
to it.
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