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APPENDIX VII
INDEX OF MAIN DECISIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Decision to ignore questions of departmental re-organisation, proposals for the creation of new posts and
personal grievances. (paragraph 4).
Decision to ignore obsolescent scales. (paragraph 4),
(iii) Decision to make no recommendations regarding the salaries of certain posts created since the re-occupa-
tion. (paragraph 4).
(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)
Recommendation that in future all salaries and emoluments should be expressed in Hong Kong currency.
(paragraph 16),
Recommendation that the future salary structure should be built up on the basis of rates of pay appli-
cable to locally recruited staff. (paragraph 17).
Decision to restrict recommendations to emoluments of monthly paid staff. (paragraph 18).
Recommendation that in future as many as possible of the lower grade staff should be employed on daily
rates of pay but with a guaranteed 30 day month. (paragraph 19).
Recommendation for an increase of 200% on lower grade salaries, falling to 30% on salaries of about
$1,000 per month and 20% on salaries of about $1,500 per month. (paragraph 21).
(ix) Recommendation that officers who do not benefit immediately from the revised salaries should be allowed to choose within a certain period whether to remain on their existing conditions of service or to come on to the new scales. (paragraph 22).
(x)
(xi)
(xii)
Recommendation that where suitably qualified candidates cannot be obtained at the revised rates proposed owing to temporary scarcity temporary appointments on short term contracts at higher rates should be offered. (paragraph 23).
Recommendation that Government should consider and lay down general principles to govern the relation of Deputies and Assistant Heads of Departments to the Heads of technical departments and to senior professional officers in technical departments. (paragraph 25).
Decision to ignore the temporarily exaggerated rates of income obtainable by professional men locally
(paragraph 26).
(xiii) Recommendation that appointments from overseas should in future be in some sense specialist appoint-
ments. (paragraph 28).
(xiv) Recommendation that Government should lay down specific qualifications required for appointment locally to the technical and professional departments and should provide facilities for professional apprenticeship. (paragraph 28).
(xv) Recommendation that new scales should not be applied indiscriminately to all existing holders of posts
unless they are properly trained and qualified. (paragraph 29).
(xvi)
(xvii)
(xviii)
Recommendation that suitably qualified candidates who are permanent local residents should be given
preference of appointment. (paragraph 30).
Recommendation that an element for rent should be incorporated in basic salaries. (paragraph 31). Recommendation that model scales with suitable modifications should be adopted to reduce present
diversity of salary scales. (paragraph 32).
(xix) Recommendation that the remuneration of women officers should be 80% of that of male officers doing
comparable work. (paragraph 33).
(xx)
Recommendation that efficiency bars should be strictly enforced and incremental certificates withheld
unless fully merited. (paragraphs 34 and 35).
(xxi) Recommendation that an inquiry should be instituted to see that departments are efficiently run and
are not overstaffed. (paragraph 36),
(xxii)
(xxiii)
(xxiv)
Recommendation that the general principle of expatriation pay should be accepted. (paragraph 40). Recommendation that no officer of whatever nationality or race who is locally recruited should normally
be entitled to expatriation pay. (paragraph 41(i)).
Recommendation that Government should exercise its discretion in exceptional cases where officers who
would otherwise be qualified as expatriate officers are recruited locally. (paragraph 41 (i)). (xxv) Recommendation that principle of expatriation pay should be applied strictly and fairly to the whole
service. (xxvi) Recommendation that officers at present entitled to privileges appropriate to expatriate officers who do not fall within the proposed definition of expatriate officers should be given the option of continuing on their existing terms of service or of accepting the new terms. (paragraph 41(ii)).
(xxvii) Recommendation that certain officers already recruited from India and North China should be granted
expatriation pay. (paragraph 41(iv)).
(xxviii) Recommendation that rules governing the question of eligibility for expatriation pay should be drawn
up. (paragraph 42).
(xxix) Recommendation regarding rates of expatriation pay. (paragraph 43).
(xxx) Recommendation that expatriation pay should be pensionable and payable both while an officer is
resident in the Colony and while on leave, (paragraph 43).
(xxxi) Recommendation that expatriation pay should not be taken into account when deductions are made for the rent of Government quarters or for assessing salary for high cost of living allowance. (paragraph 43) Recommendation that deductions should be made from expatriation pay as well as basic salary for the
purposes of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Scheme.
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