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Flexitime

-Reply by the Honourable the Chief Secretary

Sir David Ford, KBE, LVO, JP

to a question raised by the Hon Maria Tam in the Legislative Council on 8 June 1988

7. MISS TAM asked :

Will Government inform this Council whether the schemes of staggered working hours introduced in the civil service in 1980 and thereafter have worked out well; and whether it will encourage the private sector to consider the feasibility of introducing similar 'flexitime' arrangements?

CHIEF SECRETARY :

Sir,

May I start with some definitions which may ensure we are all discussing the same thing. Flexitime is an arrangement whereby civil servants may select the starting and finishing time for themselves within certain limits. Staggered working hours is a system whereby civil servants may opt for

opt for one of

of a number of alternative starting-times prescribed by the departments or sections. Sir, Thirty-one departments now operate some form of flexitime

or staggered working hours for all or part of their staff.

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times around which government departments prescribe their staggered working hours are between 9.30 am and 12.30 pm and between 2.30 pm and 4.30 pm on a normal working day. I should stress, that these are core hours around which civil servants engaged in office work are required to work a total of 44 hours

not the working

the Call service but are the

hours

for the