香港公務
總工會
香港灣仔駱克道二六三號四樓
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HKK 430/1
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51
14 AUG 1980
DESK OFFICER
INDEX
The General Secretary
International Labour Organisation
Geneva
Switzerland
Dear Sir
PA
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REGISTRY Action Taken
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HONG KONG CIVIL SERVANTS GENERAL UNION
263, LOCKHART ROAD, 3rd FLOOR, WANCHAI, HONG KONG.
TEL. H-723108
3 August 1980
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Trade Union lights - The Hong Kong Situation within the Civil Service
while there is a complete absence of negotiating machinery for the civil servants and the Hong Kong Government, industrial actions taken by staff unions as a result of prolonged grievances are being suppressed by the Hong Kong Government with an iron fist.
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With a total of about 130,000 civil servants in Hong Kong, the government only recognises 3 selected staff unions which represent a minor portion of these people for the purpose of mere consultation. This disgraceful state of the government's unilateral recognition for the selected and not for the elected he been in existence for more than 10 years. The situation is further aggravated by the fact that once a union takes industrial action because of prolonged grievances, the government simply strangles the issue by suspending the strikers' duty and pay under the most disputable civil service regulation CSR 611 and later resorted to the Royal Irerogative Power as support then the CR was challenged by the staff union and found to be ineffective by the high court. Appendix 1 is the necessary relevant information.
Since last year, the Hong Kong government has used the Royal Prerogative Power to suspend the duties and pay of 2 categories of officers, namely, the dispensers and public health inspectors. In the case of dispensers, a law suit was filed in
Appendix the supreme court of Hong Kong naming the Attorney General as defendant.
The outcome of the case was II gives a full account of the judgement of the case.
We are of the
received by civil servants' unions with the greatest of resentment. opinion that the Royal Frerogative Fower has been most abusely used on unionista who resorted to nothing more than the legally permitted industrial action.