TNAG-0991-FCO40-1210-Policy-on-salaries-and-pensions-for-civil-service-in-Hong-Ko-1980 — Page 294

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RECEIVED IN KIHISTRY KO. 51

7 MAR 1980

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GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

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Dear Mr. Goen.

Acin Takes 1st March 1980.

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Conditions of Service for

Married Female Officers

Married female civil servants in Hong Kong

do not, as a general rule, receive the same fringe benefits as their male counterparts because it has been our policy to adhere to the generally accepted community view that the husband should be the provider. This is however an area where community attitudes are changing and question has been raised as to why there should be a difference in their conditions of service.

I am currently conducting a review and should be grateful for your advice on the practice in the Diplomatic Service. The areas which will be of particular interest to me are housing, education allowances, passages and medical and dental treatment for dependants of married female DS officers. It would be helpful if you could also find out from the Civil Service Department their practice, although I appreciate the problem is different with home civil servants for whom medical treatment for dependants is available under NHS and education of children is, to a large extent, free or subsidised.

Laubhanch

(C.W. Lau)

for Secretary for the Civil Service

N.F. Green, Esq.,

Hong Kong and General Department,

Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London SW1A 2AH,

England.