TNAG-0695-FCO40-845-Policy-on-salaries-for-civil-service-in-Hong-Kong-1977 — Page 18

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In the course of this review we were told of reorganisation

proposals being prepared by the Education Department and the Commerce &

Their new structures should be graded according to

Industry Department.

the above criteria.

(c) Assistant directors

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Several departments represented that it was invidious to have

two levels of assistant directors: D2 for the majority, but D3 for the

Assistant Commissioner of Police and the Government' ranks in the

Public Works Department. It was said that the existence of the two

levels causes a certain envy and some working relationship difficulties,

amongst the disciplined services in particular; and it is arguably not

in keeping with the broadbanding that is a feature of grading in the

Directorate. We therefore gave this point considerable attention,

particularly in the organisational review referred to in paragraph 9.

However, we concluded that the organisational requirements of the Police

Force and Public Works Department continue to require the D3 lovel, and

thus for the present, two levels of assistant director should remain.

(d) Judicial/Legal Group

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One proposal from the Judiciary was that their salary scales should be quite separate from the other departments in the Judicial/Legal

Group, as well as from the rest of the Directorate.

Such a scale should

be based, it was suggested, on a series of tiers established by set percentag

relationships with the salary of the Chief Justice.

After consideration

we came to the view that there was still merit in cur present system of fixing Judicial/Legal Group salaries as a whole with regard to judicial or legal experience, responsibility and status, and then relating them -

not inflexibly to the main Directorate structure. This would be very

difficult to handle if we were to introduce a separate system for tho

Judiciary. We therefore recommend against a separate salary scale in the

way

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