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Thursday, March 1, 1973
GOVERNMENT PROPOSES TO RECRUIT MORE STAFF
Over 104,000 Employees For New Fiscal Year
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The Government will be recruiting more staff for the
Public Service in the coming financial year.
If the Draft Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure are
approved by the Legislative Council, the Public Service will have
posts for over 104,000 employees in its various departments.
The Report of the Establishment Sub-Committee of the
Finance Committee, tabled at yesterday's meeting of the Legislative
Council, says this represents an increase of 6,54 per cent over
last year,
in the net total of posts in the Public Service.
Salaries, excluding pensions, will amount to an estimated
$1,370 million in the coming financial year as against the original
estimate of $1,186 million in the current year an increase of
about $184 million.
This increase includes provision for salaries of posts
provided during the current year, as well as for posts proposed
with Estimates.
The Report says the highest expansion rates and the largest
establishments continue to be in departments providing direct services
to the public, such as the Police and Urban Services.
/The largest