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1959 levels, and that the 10% reduction in pensionable emoluments should

be discontinued, all pensions being computed on the basis of 100% of

substantivo salary.

5. The Hong Kong Government accepted and agreed to the inmediate

implementation of the general salary wage levels recommended by the

Commission subject to certain detailed variations.

7.

6. It also accepted the recommendation that pensions should be

calculated on 100% of substantive salary instead of on 90% as hitherto,

In the matter of leave the Commission considered that the leave

carning rates in Hong Kong were too generous. The Government therefore

proposed that vacation leave cerning rates should be reduced by 25% in

return for the pension concession referred to in paragraph 6 above. The

Association of European Civil Servants protested about this package deal

but eventually it was implemented (serving officers having the option of

remaining on their old terms).

8. The Commission recommended that where men and women are doing

idontical work, or work of equal value, both should be paid the same

wago or salary, and that no differentiation should be made between married

and single women. This recommendation has been accepted and will be

implemented within a ten year period as suggested by the Commission.

9.

subject which has led to some controversy in Executive Council and

which is also a matter of considerable importance to expatriate officers

is that of Childrens' and Education allowances. The Commission

rocormended that existing education allowances should be retained, but

Chinese members of the Council found it difficult to defend even an

interim decision in favour of Education allowances secing in them a

privilege confined to overseas officers.

The sun involved is between

£50,000 and £60,000 and there has been a request for Her Majesty's

Government to shoulder this iten, as indeed it does in nearly all other

The question is still under review.

dependont territories.

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