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第一標準薪級公務員評議會(員方)
MODEL SCALE 1 STAFF CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL (STAFF SIDE)
The Right Honourable
the Earl of Caithness
Minister of State for Foreign &
Commonwealth Affairs, U.K.
Dear Sir,
20 September 1990
電話:八一〇 二二〇九
政府合署東座一三七室
香港下亞厘畢道
If stome
Scale
On behalf of the Staff Side of the Model 1 Staff Consultative Council, one of the four Central Consultative Councils within the Civil Service which represents more than 40,000 junior civil servants in Hong Kong, I wish to express the strength of their feeling on the security of pension in the run-up to 1997 and beyond 1997.
Unlike the general practice in the private provident funds, the Hong Kong Government does not make any monthly or yearly contributions to its pension scheme and pension payments are only made out from its recurrent expenditure account. In view of the huge infrastructure projects in the pipeline, there is a general feeling among the civil servants that the Government might not be able to honour its pension commitment in times of financial difficulties. Our worry is also generated by the fact that the Government, in deciding the Civil Service Pay Adjustment 1990, failed to follow the Pay Trend Indicators which reflected what had actually been awarded to the private sector employees in 1989/90 because of budgetary constraints.
Although the Sino British Joint Declaration has stated that the retirement benefits of the civil servants would not be affected by the change of sovereignty, civil servants are most concerned about the ability of the future Special Administrative Region government to live up with the pension guarantees.
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