Wednesday, December 6, 1972
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PAY INCREASE FOR CIVIL SERVANTS
About 40,000 Civil Servants will receive a pay increase of
approximately three per cent on their basic salary, backdated to
April 1, 1972, a Government spokesman announced today.
This increase was agreed at the Senior Civil Servios Council meeting held last Monday, (December 4) and has already been approved by the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council.
The increase will be awarded to the majority of officers paid
on the Master Pay Scale and to the Disciplined Services.
About 3,000 staff in certain Technical and Engineering grades,
known as the Works Class, are not included in this award. The salaries
of these officers have recently been surveyed by the Pay Investigation Unit and are being dealt with separately.
The Government's pay policy is that, wherever possible government salaries should be based on a fair comparison with the pay for similar jobs in the private sector,
In time, all these groups will be surveyed but in the meantime some pay adjustment is considered appropriate for staff whose salaries have not
yet been surveyed in detail.
In addition to this three per cent increase, the Government has also decided to pay a temporary non-pensionable allowance of $75 per month, backdated to April 1, 1972, to about 5,000 supervisory and technical staff on the Master Pay Scale.
The salary