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focus more on their pay and

inferred from a be

servants

would in future

conditions

of service.

It

may

number of recent industrial disputes within the Civil

Service

that instant

gratification has become a vogue

when civil

servants

press

for

improvement

to their

terms of employment.

Their readiness to publicize

through the media and to

their perceived grievances

contemplate collective

pay

action is increasingly evident.

Α review of the disciplined services has been completed and a review of

and condition of service of the

the

pay

and conditions

of the remainder of the civil

service is now underway.

Staff Relations Division

Civil Service Branch

9 January 1990