Hong Kong Chinese Civil
Servants' Association
HK.C.C.S
香港政府華員會
九龍京士柏衛理道八號
8 WYLIE ROAD, KING'S PARK, KOWLOON, HONG KONG.
TEL: 300 1066 (4 LINES) EX FAX: 771 1139
Our Ref.: (231) in 2/7/CCSA (IV)
The Right Honourable John Major, MP
The Prime Minister
10 Downing Street United Kingdom
23 October 1992
Dear Mr Prime Minister,
Hong Kong Civil Servants' Worries
servants'
I wish to convey to you Hong Kong civil worries. Amongst the most important issues is the question of pension safeguards.
We are strongly of the view that Civil Service pension is part and parcel of the civil service total pay package. A pension is something which civil servants have earned by virtue of their employment, and thus. belongs to civil servants. It is a legitimate right of civil servants to expect their employer, the British Hong Kong Government, to safeguard the payment of pensions earned under the British rule before handing over its employees to a new employer.
However,
despite repeated calls from the Staff Side, and after several years of discussions at the Senior Civil Service Council, the Hong Kong Government is still unable to produce any concrete proposal to allay civil servants' worry on this very important issue. To repeat again and again that our pension is safeguarded by the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the SAR Basic Law is not enough. The shaking confidence of civil servants at the imminent change of sovereignty is in fact a sign of serious warning.
It
British
is therefore considered both politically and financially important at this point in time for both the and the Chinese Governments to draw up concrete plans on safeguards to restore the confidence of civil servants and help stabilize the civil service.
pension
Το set up a Civil Service Pension Reserve Fund to provide the financial basis for pension payment can certainly help to achieve this objective.
The work involved in setting up the fund is purely technical in nature. It does not require additional resources. The Government may have less flexibility to manoeuver its resources as this Fund will have to be set aside for the payment