Mr. Peter C. WONG : Sir,
is the Chief
Chief Secretary completely
satisfied that service to the public is not affected?
Chief Secretary : Sir, I have not been made aware of any cases
where service to the public has been impaired by the alternate
system. If it were to come to our notice,
Saturday-off
obviously we would wish to take action to put it right.
Government and is
departments?
Mr. LEE Yu-tai : Sir, when is it practised on
it practised on the part of the
it practised by the majority of Government
Chief Secretary : Sir, the system has been in operation since,
I believe, 1974. It is not really possible to give an idea as
to how many Government departments operate it because, as I
have mentioned earlier, it is done on a job by job basis rather
than on a department by
department
basis.
understanding is that probably about 45 per cent of government
But our
departments operate the system.