4.
COMPENSATION ARRANGEMENTS
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A limited Compensation Scheme for Certain Pensionable
of the
Officers has been introduced and provides for compensation to officers superceded for promotion in pursuance localisation policy.
At present the localisation policy applies on recruitment, to Administrative Officers (in that they are required to retire at the age of 57) and to the filling of certain very senior posts after 1997. For the latter to be feasible, it is necessary for local officers to be placed in senior positions well before that date. Therefore there will be а progressive diminution in the promotion prospects of overseas pensionable officers.
Although provision has been made in the Joint Declaration for overseas officers to continue serving in Hong Kong it is understood that such service would not be compatible with continued membership of HMOCS. As this would result in a significant change in employment conditions it is considered that members so affected should have the right to retire with their earned pension benefits and appropriate compensation
or shortly before, the date of transfer of sovereignty.
at,
For these reasons members are seeking the introduction at an early date of
a general compensation scheme.
Such compensation arrangements have been applied in other territories as they approached independence and, although the transfer of Hong Kong in 1997 is still some years away, We are already in the transition period and consider the early introduction of such arrangements to be justified.