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Churchill College,

CAMBRIDGE,

United Kingdom

13th Decembe 1977.

Mr. RGB. Bridge,

Secretary for the Civil Service

Government Secretariat,

Lower Albert Road,

HONG KONG.

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Dear Ron

Further to my letter of 2nd December (acknowledging your query arising from the Willoughby Committee's recommendation on Civil Service-conciliation procedure); subject to the reservation in the last paragraph of that letter; subject, additionally, to... your taking the argument as given (if not obvious); and subject, finally, to the proviso that I would not guarantee to say, exactly the same thing in my final draft! my provisional views on appropriate machinery may be put as follows

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There should be a standing Arbitration Tribunal for the Civil Service, part-time, consisting of an independent Chairman and Deputy Chairman (or, perhaps, t

two Deputies) plus two assessors one appointed by the Governor broadly having the confidence (but not representative) employing interests, the other ditto of employee interes

Government should state that it would normally accep the Tribunal awards, but would consider itself equally entitled to suggest (separately from any specific case) the general policy lines within which the Tribunal should make its decisions,

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the Tribunal should be-from either genera Civil Service joint council (for instance, the present 5.c.sc., if it is continued in that form but see below) or a Departmental Consultative Council, with variants as indicated: later.

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Either the present Senior Civil Service Council should be widened in composition to be more representative of all white-collar public servants (and this is much the pref

rable); or a line should be drawn to the present Council's