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civil servant counterparts.
Therefore, changes in the
latters' salaries and conditions of service directly
affect the former. Secondly, with the staff qualification,
job nature and workload all being equal, pay packages
should in all fairness be the same for both in accordance With
of the principle of equality. Thirdly, subvented
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organisations staff are looked upon by the public as equal to civil servants, therefore, it is unreasonable that they should be paid. less when public expectations
for both groups remain the same.
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concomitant fringe benefits enjoyed by the civil servants.
186 The 6-day level survey endorsed by the Government
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benefits provided by the Government and the private sector, which if adopted, will bring about a smaller percentage of salary adjustment this year. To apply this ruling to
the voluntary agencies would be to impose a double
penalty on them, since their loss over the years has not been remedied while their actual pay package. this year 24 will be further reduced. This problem of disparity, if
unresolved, could only aggravate the social work manpower problem we are facing. Here, Sir, I strongly urge the
Government to lend a sympathetic ear to the grievances
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Lotteries fund
sir, still on the principle of equity and fairness, I
wish to bring up once more the subject of the Lotteries
Fund. Indeed, I need to be convinced that the fund, set up with the sole purpose of channelling unspent money raised by the Mark Six lotteries to social welfare services,
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