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CONFIDENTIAL

機密

STANDING COMMISSION ON CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

Room 1322,

Prince's Building, Chater Road,

Hong Kong.

7 October 1980.

His Excellency Sir Murray MacLehose, G.B.E., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., Governor of Hong Kong.

Your Excellency,

Technical and Survey Officer Grades

In our First Report on Civil Service Pay (Report No. 2) we reviewed the pay scales of the Technical and Survey Officer grades and reached the conclusion that they should remain unchanged. We said, however, that we would be prepared to re-examine these grades in the light of the findings of a Working Party which we were given to understand had been established to examine the implementation of the 1977 Technical Grades Review. Earlier this year, we received a report by this Working Party on a claim by the Association of Government

Ve Technical and Survey Officers for better remuneration. have now completed a study of this Report and have the honour to submit our further advice on the pay of the Technical and Survey Officer grades.

The existing pay scales and structure of the Technical and Survey Officer grades were established in August 1977 as a result of a review of the professional support grades in the Public Works Department, subsequently

The review referred to as the 1977 Technical Grades Review. followed a Pay Investigation Unit survey of comparable jobs in the private sector. However, the pay scales were disputed by staff and, in September 1977, Professor P.G. Willoughby of Hong Kong University was appointed as a one-man Committee of Inquiry to determine whether the pay scales and structure introduced as a result of the Review were fair or otherwise, and to recommend whether the proposals should be amended. Professor Willoughby's conclusion was that the pay rates provided for in the restructuring of the professional support grades were broadly fair according to the Government's pay policy. Notwithstanding the Committee of Inquiry's findings, staff continued to dispute the results of the 1977 Technical Grades Review and in November 1978, a Joint Management/Staff Working Party composed of representatives of Public Works Department management, the Association of Government Technical and Survey Officers and Civil Service Branch was convened to examine, among other things, the pay scales of the Technical and Survey Officer grades on the basis of any evidence not previously considered. It is the report of this Working Party which we have considered.

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