TNAG-2669-FCO40-3866-Hong-Kong-Civil-Service-1993 — Page 270

Subject

CONFIDENTIAL #

CSB Matters June 1993

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Object

Latest Position

Mood

and

Morale in the

Civil

Service

To monitor and report on the latest position

On 22 June, ExCo reconsidered the pay adjustment issue and

to

decided

maintain its original pay offer of 9.76% for the directorate and the upper band of the non-directorate and 10.66% for the middle/lower bands. The Staff Sides of the central

councils dissatisfied that their request for backpayment of

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the

'shortfall'

arising

from

previous years

had

been

rejected.

At their

joint

meeting

25.6.93, on

the nine

civil service unions decided to take the following protest actions :

(a) petition to the Governor and demand a meeting with him within 10 days to discuss the setting up of a Committee of Inquiry or an independent

arbitration

mechanism to examine the pay dispute forward;

the and

way

(b) refuse to take up SCS's offer of a meeting with the Staff Sides on 1.7.93;

(c) boycott the Senior Civil Service Council meeting.

(d) boycott the Civil Service Charity Walk organised by CSB. In order to gain community support, they may organise their own walk and pledge to donate part of

backpayment 'shortfall', if any, to the Community Chest;

the

of

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