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LETTER OF 24TH JUNE 1980 TO H.E. THE GOVERNOR HEALTH INSPECTOR GRADE
24 June 1980
His Excellency Sir Murray MacLehose, G.B.E., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., Governor of Hong Kong
Your Excellency,
As Your Excellency is aware, we are engaged in the preparation of a further Report on a number of issues outstanding from our Reports Nos 1 and 2. Our current programme of work is set out in Chapter 20 of Report No. 2.
We felt, and continue to feel, obliged to give priority to the consideration of those issues listed in our published work programme, in particular to the consideration of the pay of those civil service grades on which we did not formulate advice for inclusion in Report No. 2. Nevertheless, in addition to these priority items we decided that if a grade dealt with in Report No. 2 produced sufficient new evidence to justify reconsideration of our initial recommendations we would include such reconsideration in our current review process.
Among the few grades who have submitted new evidence is that of Health Inspector and it is our intention to present our recommendations on this grade in the Report which is now in the course of preparation. This Report is unlikely to be completed before early September. However, in view of the Health Inspectors' sit-in we feel it appropriate to advise Your Excellency of the progress we have made in our reconsideration of the pay and structure of this grade together with our preliminary findings. Needless to say, these have not been influenced by the Health Inspectors' action.
New evidence in respect of the Health Inspector grade was submitted in late December 1979 in letters from the Hong Kong Public Health Inspectors' Association. letters included a detailed statement of the role and responsibilities of Health Inspectors and provided further information in support of their case for upgrading the educational qualifications required for entry to the student rank from school certificate to matriculation. Subsequently we met the representatives of the Public Health Inspectors' Association on 25th January 1980. At this meeting the Association expanded on their claim and as a result we decided that the points they had made were sufficient to justify a further examination of the grade in
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