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Subject

CONFIDENTIAL # 3

Monthly Report to HE on CSB Matters March 1993

Object

Latest Position

Mood

and

To

monitor

Morale Civil

in

the

and

Service

on

report the

Civil Service Pay Adjustment 1992

Potential Disputes

latest

position

report

reaction to

To

staff

the

adjustment

To

pay

monitor

and resolve potential disputes

has

The Staff Side of SCSC approached the Leg Co Panel on Public Service to enlist support

support for its requests for the formation a joint working group

to monitor the progress of the proposed pension reserve fund and the setting aside of $5 billion in the 1993/94 budget for the fund.

The issue of localisation continues to attract criticism from the Association of Expatriate Civil Servants (AECS). A recent survey conducted by the AECS among its members indicates that about 60% of the respondents would be willing to transfer to local pensionable terms if they were given such an option, and that a similar percentage

of respondents support the proposal to take legal action against the Government for contravening the Bill of Rights.

indicated that

The Association

legal

has

legal action may be

taken if the issue cannot

be

resolved satisfactorily in the near future.

The Staff Side of SCSC has written

to

the

Governor expressing dissatisfaction with his decision not to set up a Committee of Inquiry to arbitrate the pay adjustment issue.

Major staff associations will issue a joint letter to the Governor shortly, warning that further departure from established pay adjustment policy in 1993 will not be tolerated.

the

The RTHK Programme Staff Union seems to have accepted that it would not be desirable to proceed with the corporatisation proposal

proposal in view of present political climate. Staff

concerned

the

are-

now

more

about

G.F. 326

CONFIDENTIAL #E

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