should be made to
second those civil
civil servants who choose to retain their civil
civil service status to the new RTHK.
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to
the
The Board will have the power to determine its own staffing policies, including the power to hire and fire, in respect of its own new employees. It may also decide on the terms and conditions of appointment having regard similar jobs in the private sector, but subject to overall terms not exceeding those in the civil service. Board will also oversee recruitment for any new posts. order to enhance operational flexibility, it is likely that new RTHK employees would be offered contract terms.
Implement at ion
The
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If the proposal to turn RTHK into an independent public broadcasting corporation is approved by Members, new legislation will be required and RTHK will have to embark upon a process of dis-establishment. In order to establish the Board of Governors as early as possible, we propose to turn RTHK into an independent public broadcasting corporation by stages
(a) in the first stage, a working group within
the Administration will be formed to
to lay
(b)
(c)
the groundwork for the broadcasting corporation legislative, financial
future public including the
and staffing
arrangements. This should take about nine months. We aim to establish the Board no later than 1 April 1990;
,
at the end of the first stage when the legislative and staffing arrangements have been finalized dis-establishment will take place and RTHK will
RTHK will become
become a public broadcast ing corporation operating under its Board of Governors. The second stage will be a transition period in respect of the financial arrangements for RTHK. The new corporation will be granted a subvention on a cash basis initially but it will start setting up its own cost ing systems in order that
that the subvention may eventually be granted on a cost basis;
the third and final stage is achieved when the subvention is granted on
granted on a cost basis, at which time RTHK will have finally become an independent public broadcasting corporation.
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