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STANDING COMMISSION ON CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE
Our Ref. SC3/H/11
SC3/H/12
Room 1322,
Prince's Building, Chater Road,
Hong Kong.
4 November 1980.
His Excellency Sir Jack Cater, KBE, JP,
Acting Governor of Hong Kong.
Your Excellency,
The Housing Assistant and Housing Manager Grades
Among a number of grades identified in our First Report on Civil Service Pay (Report No. 2) as requiring further review were those of Housing Assistant and Housing Manager. Our initial review had revealed a situation with regard to the Housing Assistant grade which we considered unsatisfactory. The qualifications for entry to the grade were set at four separate educational levels, ranging from school certificate to university degree, each of which attracted different starting
pay.
We could find no justification for such an arrangement and advised that a further review was required before we could make firm recommendations on the pay and structure of the grade. In the case of the Housing Manager grade it had also been drawn to our attention that for many years vacancies in the grade had been filled solely by the appointment of suitably qualified Housing Assistants, It was suggested to us that Housing Assistant had in effect become the entry rank of the Housing Manager grade and that this should be recognised by combining the two grades into a single grade. We felt this suggestion to be deserving of consideration and therefore advised that the further review we proposed for the Housing Assistant grade should be extended to include the Housing Manager grade.
As a first step towards this further review, we arranged for a job survey of the Housing Assistant and Housing Manager grades. We received the results of the survey in June of this year and examined these alongside the representations we had received from staff and management. Although staff in the Housing Assistant grade have represented to us that the range of jobs inspected was too narrow, we are satisfied that the survey, which was based on an examination of 264 completed job questionnaires and the inspection of 124 jobs, provides an adequate assessment of the duties and responsibilities of the Housing Assistant and Housing Manager grades. In addition, the survey results do not differ markedly from the description of duties and responsibilities contained in the staff's own submissions,
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