Subject
CONFIDENTIAL #
CSB Matters June 1993
-
Object
Latest Position
Mood
and
Morale in the
Civil
Service
To monitor and report on the latest position
On 22 June, ExCo reconsidered the pay adjustment issue and
to
decided
maintain its original pay offer of 9.76% for the directorate and the upper band of the non-directorate and 10.66% for the middle/lower bands. The Staff Sides of the central
councils dissatisfied that their request for backpayment of
were
GF 323
the
'shortfall'
arising
from
previous years
had
been
rejected.
At their
joint
meeting
25.6.93, on
the nine
civil service unions decided to take the following protest actions :
(a) petition to the Governor and demand a meeting with him within 10 days to discuss the setting up of a Committee of Inquiry or an independent
arbitration
mechanism to examine the pay dispute forward;
the and
way
(b) refuse to take up SCS's offer of a meeting with the Staff Sides on 1.7.93;
(c) boycott the Senior Civil Service Council meeting.
(d) boycott the Civil Service Charity Walk organised by CSB. In order to gain community support, they may organise their own walk and pledge to donate part of
backpayment 'shortfall', if any, to the Community Chest;
the
of
CONFIDENTIAL
機密
Page 270Page 271
GF 323