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Question No. 15
Merger of Model Scale 1 and Master Pay Scale
Written Reply by the Honourable the Chief Secretary Sir David Ford, KBE, LVO, JP
to a question raised by the Hon Tam Yiu-chung in the Legislative Council on 27 April 1988
15. MR. TAM asked:
Question
Will the Government inform this Council:†
(a) the original reasons for setting up Model Scale 1 and the criteria in determining what type of posts should be grouped under this scale: and
(b)
whether consideration will be given to the suggestion made
made by a number
number of trade unions that the two salary scales should be merged?
CHIEF SECRETARY : Sir,
cap
to Prior
were
1971, civil service grades remunerated on 10 Model Scales (namely Model Scales 1 to 10). according to entry qualifications and occupational grouping. Following the 1971 Salaries Commission, Model Scales 2 to 10 were replaced by a consolidated pay scale known as the Master Pay Scale with educational . qualifications being the main determinant for entry into the grades concerned. Model Scale 1 remained comprising. Workman and Artisan grades for which the requirement was operative skill rather than educational qualifications.