His Excellency The Govamor,
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kowloon.
/7th February, 1969.
Through the Hon. Director of Medical & Health Services,
Through the Principal Matron,
Through the Senior Matron,
Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Your Excellency,
We wish to mubunit to Your Excellency this petition in order to
rectify what we believe to be injustice being done on the part of the Hong Kong
Government to members of our profession.
We refer to the omission of woman nurses from the categories of
women civil servants who are to be granted equal pay with their male counterparts
os of the ist April, 1969, and should be deeply grateful to Your Excellency for
your intervention in effecting a restoration to us of the rights from which we are
thus excluded.
We quote from the Salaries Commission 1948, P.49, which in turn
quoted from The Report an Public Services 1965, P.77.
The Severnment's broad object as an employer has boar stated in
the following finos:-
..... it is the duty and the responsibility of the Government to
maintain a Civil Service recognised as afficient and staffed by members whose
conditions of service are regarded as fair, both by themselves and by the publis
which they serve.
These words carry the authority of the Royal Commission on the
Civil Service 1953-55, and the Salaries Commission Report states that the principles
they have forwarded in the Salaries Commisstan Report 1903 have this object in view.
It recommends, and the Hong Pong Govamsont have agreed in
principle, that there should be oquality of pay for esan and women In grades where
the work engaged in is -
(a) Identical, so that esan and women are Interchangeablaş
Similar, or virtually of the sea value, and women and man
are not interchan saklo.
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