TNAG-0695-FCO40-845-Policy-on-salaries-for-civil-service-in-Hong-Kong-1977 — Page 210

布政司署

香港下亞畢道

NKC (307

本署檔號 OUR REF.: G/S/2/6 I

my No. 51

13 SEP 1977

* YOUR Ref.:

DESK OFFIC INDEX

REGIS. BY

ion Taken

PA

Dear Au Sier

s

об

GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD

HONG KONG

1st September, 1977.

du Dand

бру

Ry

Enter Accmbat.

Па

Your letter to Mrs. Matilda CHEUNG was

handed to her on the 25th August 1977. Thank you for the copy of her letter to Mr. Luard, with enclosures, and a copy of your reply for my file.

You have asked for some background to the dispute. I am enclosing a draft press release on the restructuring of the Secretarial Class and a draft minute on file giving a précis of the staff consultations which followed the publication in August 1976 of the proposed restructuring which, with modifications agreed with Staff Side Committees was introduced on the 8th December 1976.

The Secretarial Class consists of approximately 2380 secretarial and typing grades; they

are,

Personal Assistants, etc.

7

Secretaries & Senior Secretaries

360

Supervisors of Typing Services

70

Stenographers

440

Typists

1500

The Class, which was one of the 47 classes of Government employees identified by the 1971 Salaries Commission, comprises grades and ranks which at the upper end evolved from basically expatriate ranks recruited after 1945 and at the lower from local clerical ranks. Conditions of Service, manning, duties and pay were in need of revision and a start was made with an O & M work study in 1975 the results of which led in 1976 to a Committee to advise the Secretary for the Civil Service on restructuring. There are today less than 30 UK officers in the Class.

Of the 440

Page 210Page 211