TNAG-0992-FCO40-1211-Policy-on-salaries-and-pensions-for-civil-service-in-Hong-Ko-1980 — Page 127

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Engineering, Land or Planning streams and so on.

Their duties and the ranking criteria referring to those duties may therefore vary according to the stream in which they serve. In examining the duties of the Technical and Survey Officer grades, we have therefore had regard to the ranking criteria for the grades as a whole.

We have noted that one of the findings of the Working Party is that practically all the duties listed as not being included in ranking criteria were performed by staff of the Technical and Survey Officer grades before the 1977 Technical Grades Review. In our further study of the Technical and Survey Officer grades, we have therefore first examined the 140 items which the Working Party Report lists as not included in the 1977 ranking criteria to see to what extent they involve additional responsibilities, and secondly examined the nature of these duties to establish whether or not their inclusion in the 1977 ranking criteria could have affected the pay scales introduced as a result of the Technical Grades Review.

We have found that an overwhelming proportion of the 140 items listed as "additional" either actually appear (albeit sometimes slightly differently worded) in the ranking criteria of me or other of the disciplines of the Technical and Survey Officer grades, or are so closely related to duties already appearing in the ranking criteria that, in our opinion, they can reasonably be regarded as included. Of the few remaining items, none is such as to result in a substantial raising of levels of responsibility and all are appropriate for grades whose principal responsibilities are to provide support services to professional staff.

In the circumstances, we do not consider that the additional duties listed would have affected the outcome of the 1977 Technical Grades Review nor are they such as to warrant any adjustment to pay scales in accordance with the principles we now use in determining such scales.

In addition to the Working Party Report, we have considered representations from a group of Chief Technical Officers that there are two distinct levels of responsibility exercised by staff in this rank. We have not examined this claim in detail pending the receipt of further information which the management has undertaken to provide.

We conclude, therefore, that the evidence submitted in the Report of the Joint Management/Staff Association Working Party on a claim by the Association of Government Technical and Survey Officers for better remuneration does not justify any change in the existing pay scales and structure of the Technical and Survey

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