TNAG-0695-FCO40-845-Policy-on-salaries-for-civil-service-in-Hong-Kong-1977 — Page 136

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para. 173 "In practice, however, the field of selection

will rarely, if ever, be representative of the community as a whole since we have proposed that it should consist of 'good employers This, so far as it goes, leads us to suggest that the right range in which to make comparisons should be around the median.

Appendix E (pago 2) Para.5

"The Priestley Report provided a definition of a good employer in personnel management terms, rather than in salary terms, as followS I-

para. 140 "The good employer is not necessarily the one who

offers the highest rates of pay. He seeks rather to provide stability and continuity of employment and consults with representatives of his caployees upon changes that affect both their remmeration and their conditions of work. lle provides adequate facilities for training and advancement and carries on a range of practices which today constitute good management whether they be (@grmularised in joint consultation along Civil Service lines or not. Such employers are likely to be among the more progressive in all aspects of management policy. Their rates of reueration will compare well with those of the ganorality of employers, will move fondily but not atypically upward when the trend is in that direction and will be rather more stable than most when the trend is downwrds."

B. Mhe S.A.". Unit's comments

(a) The S.A.T. Unit is fully agreed the method of setting the

modian and upper quartile of rates as stipulated in the P.I.U. Report.

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The S.A.T. Unit has recognized that when the Pay Investigation Unit set its pay level at that of a good employer in the private sector, it would be subjective and would probably lend to dispute between the Official Side and the Staff Side as stipulated in the said report. Therefore the Government should have realized that the existing dispute between both sides is unavoidable and within the expectation of the P.I.U. Report. The occurrance of pay dispute will only be a matter of time, sooner or later. The "Poster Campaign" previously undertaken will therefore be regarded as an impellent and passive action adopted by the S.A.T. Unit in respect of the downward trond of salary and inadequate advancement prospects they have been confronted with. This may not be a proper channel in the eyes of the official Side; but wo do not agree that the "Poster Campaign" has produced any misleading to public.

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