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Standing Commission is, however, going to make recommendations to improve the existing consultative machinery within the Civil Service and it is likely that these improvements would help to minimize the need for arbitration. We shall be examining this question further when we receive the Commission's report on 'The Consultative Machinery in the Civil Service'.

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On the recent health inspector disputes, I have kept you informed by regular progress reports and you are aware of the circumstances that led to the suspension of the 314 Health Inspectors, not 320 as stated in the General Union's letter. The question of whether the Government has exercised its power properly in suspending officers without pay in such situations is still to be considered by the courts pending the hearing, on appeal, of the case of the 26 Dispensers some time in October 1980. I shall keep you informed of the outcome of this court case in due course.

Encls.

مسون

Sof the

(James Y.C. So)

for Secretary for the Civil Service

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