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collective
bargaining.
It
is a
formidable,
if
་་་
impossible task in Hong Kong's circumstances.
not
The Senior
in 1968 following
three main staff
Civil
·
Service Council was established
an agreement between the Government and associations, i.e. the Hong Kong Chinese
Association,
Civil
Servants
the Senior
Non-Expatriate
Officers
Association and
the
Association of
Expatriate
Civil Servants.
These associations represent
a wide
spectrum
of
civil
servants irrespective
of
grades
or
departments.
The
also open to
Staff Side membership of the Council is well-established unions provided they meet
certain criteria as
Sides.
agreed between the Official and Staff
Matters affecting the civil service as a whole are
discussed at this Council. While differences in opinion
between the two sides are dealt with, as far as possible,
a continuing dialogue at the Council, the 1968 Agreement provides for matters on which agreement cannot be reached
after full and
referred
by
to
proper
consultation in the Council to be
an independent committee of inquiry. The last
such committee was appointed in 1988 to examine a dispute
on
certain
recommendations
aspects
of the civil service pay system.
The
of
the committee were accepted by the Hong
Kong Government.