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Written by: Zhou Lixi
2021-05-19 11:33
Last update date: 2021-05-19 11:34
The salary trend survey affecting the salary adjustment of 180,000 civil servants was released yesterday (18th). After calculating and deducting the incremental salary, the net salary trend indicators of the three-level civil servants are all negative, the net salary indicator of senior civil servants is negative 2.04%, and the mid-level civil servants are negative. 0.54%, lower-level civil servants minus 0.68%, but whether the salary will be reduced according to the mechanism is still to be decided by the Hong Kong government.
Li Kuiyan, chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese Government Association, said this morning (19th) that the government should focus on factors other than the pay trend survey to determine how to adjust civil servant pay, such as socioeconomic conditions, inflation, and civil servant morale. She believes that if the government decides to freeze civil servants this year Salary helps maintain the morale of civil servants. I also worry that a reduction in civil servants’ salary will have a knock-on effect on private organizations, which is not good for uniting against the epidemic.
Li Fangchong, chairman of the senior civil servants trade union, also believes that the survey is only one of the many considerations of the Hong Kong government, and that the salary freeze is more balanced by various factors.
Li Fangchong said that the pay trend survey is only one of the directions the authorities have decided to adjust. Others include Hong Kong's economic situation and civil servant morale.
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Li: The benefits of civil servants can stabilize Hong Kong
Li Fangchong said on the radio program that he believed that the government decided to freeze the salary last year when the survey of high, middle, and low-level civil servants had increased. He believed that the situation this year should be reviewed together with last year, because the survey itself is a "lagging indicator."
He also pointed out that the investigation is only one of the directions the authorities have decided to adjust. Others include the economic situation of Hong Kong and the morale of civil servants. He believes that civil servants have been sticking to their posts last year, so the salary freeze is more balanced by various factors.
Li Fangchong believes that the benefits of civil servants have the effect of stabilizing Hong Kong. If the authorities decide to freeze their salary this year, there will be a more stable development, but if the salary is reduced, it will cause a wave of salary reductions in private companies.
He also mentioned that in the past, labor unions and others had always put forward wage demands, and the government made a decision; but last year the government decided to freeze wages and they could no longer make demands.
Li also believes that although the morale of civil servants will not be affected immediately once the salary is reduced, everyone sticks to their posts last year and believes that the authorities may not follow the investigation this year.
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