TNAG-0991-FCO40-1210-Policy-on-salaries-and-pensions-for-civil-service-in-Hong-Ko-1980 — Page 345

1001

GRS 450

CONFIDENTIAL

...

STAFF IN CONFIDENCE

CONFIDENTIAL

:

HKK H30|1

مل

do Plu/23/1

see

FM HONG KONG 150800Z JANUARY 80

TO ROUTINE FCO

TELEGRAM NUMBER 93 OF 15 JANUARY

INFO ROUTINE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON

MAJOR PAY DISPUTES IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.

3

MY TELNO 19 OF 4 JANUARY REFERS.

Niw 2311

2. DISPENSERS. THE PHARMACEUTICAL STAFF ASSOCIATION SUSPENDED

INDUSTRIAL ACTION ON 7 JANUARY, PENDING THE COURT CASE. THE 7 EVENING CLINICS CLOSED AS A RESULT OF THE DISPENSERS' INDUSTRIAL ACTION WERE RE-OPENED AS FROM 9 JANUARY.

3. POSTAL STAFF. THE BAN ON OVERTIME WORK BY POSTAL OFFICERS

HAD INITIALLY CAUSED SOME DISRUPTION TO POSTAL SERVICES. THIS COMING AT THE WAKE OF THE CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR PERIOD HAD LED THE POST- MASTER GENERAL TO SUSPEND CERTAIN POSTAL SERVICES AS FROM 7 JANUARY UNTIL THE BACKLOG WAS CLEARED. THE SUSPENDED SERVICES INCLUDED OVERSEAS AND LOCAL REGISTERED AND INSURED MAIL, OVERSEAS SURFACE PARCELS AND INLAND PARCELS, OVERSEAS SURFACE PRINTED MATTERS AND INLAND PRINTED MATTERS. AS MUCH OF THE BACKLOG WAS

CLEARED, OVERSEAS REGISTERED AND INSURED MAIL AND OVERSEAS SURFACE

PARCELS SERVICES WERE RESUMED ON 14 JANUARY.

4. CIVIL SERVICE BRANCH AND POST OFFICE REPRESENTATIVES MET THE UNION

ON 10 AND 14 JANUARY BUT NO AGREEMENT COULD BE REACHED ON THE UNION'S PROPOSED REVISED PAY SCALES FOR THE POSTAL OFFICERS AS THESE MATTERS FALL WITHIN THE TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE STANDING COMMISSION. THE UNION HAS NOW ANNOUNCED THAT IT WOULD BAN OVERTIME WORK AND SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS WORK AS FROM 16 JANUARY.

15.

GENERAL

CONFIDENTIAL

Page 345Page 346