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(a)
(b)
long, irregular and unsocial hours
ineligibility for overtime pay
(c)
danger
(d)
subjection to discipline
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(e)
social segregation
The effect of the "Willink formula" is that starting rates of pay in the disciplined services may be some 50% higher than those for other civil servants with the same or higher educational qualifications.
52.
The Commission has had the recent report of the Committee of Inquiry into the United Kingdom Police drawn to its attention. This Committee concluded that the correct level of police pay could not be determined on any precise formula. Instead the Committee considered that the only satisfactory way to proceed was to review all the relevant factors and to make the best judgement it could. The Commission would therefore welcome comments on whether or not the Willink formula should continue to be used to determine the pay of the Hong Kong disciplined services and if so whether there should be any additions to or deletions from the factors taken into account by the formula, or whether the formula should be abandoned and disciplined services pay left to the Commission's judgement.
ΧΙ General
53.
The Commission would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have submitted representations on key principles and practices. It is clear that a great deal of thought has gone into their preparation and they have played a valuable part in the Commission's deliberations. In the final analysis the Commission must exercise its judgement on the principles and practices which should be applied to the civil service but in doing so it will attach considerable weight to the views expressed in the representations which it has received.
Commission Secretariat
11th May 1979
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