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skills originally, they were paid at a point of $920 but after the restructuring the shorthand and typing speeds required were raised by 10 words and she wondered why there should be a cut în their minimm. She also wondered why the government did not accept the minimum produced by the PI for their minimum.
he Government was discriminating against the SAT grude.
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Mr. Yue said actually the PIU was mainly used as a guide for management to make decision for fixing salary scales and also in fixing the miniam of a particulapodás. Ke Government had also taken into account service vide qualification, internal relativities, and all that. Ca the point of academic qualification, the Staff Side mentioned 5 subjects but indeed after restructuring, only 3 subjects were required, namely, English, Chinese and Mathematics.
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Miss V. So clarified if the PIU was used as a guideline for the (government, it should not be bound by any procedures, If it was bound by agreed procedures, it would tend to be inaccurate because they did not have a free-rand in conducting the survey. Secondly, Miss V. So said in fixing the radian point of a salary scale, it was not a decision to be made by the PIU. It should be decided by the Civil Service Branch and as Hr. Hammond said in the previous meeting, the Government based upon the PIU report in fizing the pay scales. Thirdly, Miss So referred to the change in the qualification after the restructuring. "he pointed out that 3 specified subjects were required now instead of 5 general subjects and she was of the view that it 136 even more difficult to obtain those 3 subjects instead of 5 subjects, though it seemed to others it was a reduction of qualification but actually the qualification had been raised by such a way.
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The Chairman said the PIU procedures were procedures that had been agreed with the Starf Side and the Staff Side included the SAT Unit's parent association (IKCCGA). Those agreed procedures were up to the Staff Side to make suggestion for changing the procedure. That was the point. Secondly, as the Staff Side hud rightly said, the FIU did not make decisions and decisions were made in the Civil Service Branch on the basis of the FIU reports and as Fr. Yue said, it based on other factors too, such as internal relativities, service vide qualification. It seemed that the Staff Side had the impression that the Government was trying to screw down the salary scale of SAT, It was wrong- The Official Side were all civil servants too.
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Miss So was glad to see that the Civil Service Branch had no intention of screwing down the salary scale of civil servants. She also said the impression that the Civil Service Branch was screwing down the salary scale of SAT was not groundless. It was supported by the figures produced by the PIU, from which could see that the Official Side had really done 30. She referred to the survey conducted amongst the 58 companies were being used as being agreed by the Official Side and the Staff Side. However, in the survey concerning the SAT grade, the number of companies had been cut down from 68 to 17,. The scope was getting smaller and smaller. ith regard to the fact that the procedures of PIU were being agreed by the staff association including their HKCOSA, it did not mean that the particular procedures being used now were satisfactory. It was simply because the Staff Side could not at the moment put forward a better alternative to be used in the Senior Civil Service Council for discussion. In the PIU, it stated the principles of a good employer. It stated a good employer should set its salary point around the median point, but not lower than the median point
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