Moderate Pay Adjustment for HK Civil Service OfferedA moderate pay adjustment was offered for the Hong Kong civil service, a senior official announced Tuesday.The Secretary for the Civil Service Joseph W P Wong said that a pay offer had been put to the staff sides of the four central consultative councils. Under the offer, Wong said civil servants are to be given a pay adjustment with effect from April 1, 2001 at the rates of 4.99 percent for the directorate and the upper pay band and 2.38 per cent for the lower and middle pay bands. "Having considered the results of the pay trend survey, changes in cost of living, the state of the economy, budgetary considerations, the staff sides' pay claims and civil service morale, we consider that civil service pay should follow strictly the pay trend indicators, with the adjustment for the lower band brought up to that of the middle band," Wong said. "It is the government's policy to extend the pay adjustment to subvented organizations whose salary adjustments in line with those in the civil service have been accepted as a case for funding," he said. "The government will make a final decision on the pay adjustment in mid-June," Wong said. |
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