The pay trend survey committee recently announced that the net pay trend indicators for low-, middle-, and high-level civil servants range from 2.04% to 7.26%. Some chambers of commerce have criticized the senior salary increase of over 7% as being out of touch with reality.
The Secretary for the Civil Service, Nip Tak-kuen, said this morning (29th) that the net pay trend indicator is only one of the reference indicators.
He appealed to the public to be "fair" in the adjustment of civil servants' salaries. In the past two years, the civil service team had frozen their salaries in response to social conditions, but failed to catch up with the rate of inflation. This year, the index recorded a positive number, and civil servants have reasonable views and demands for salary increases. But he also stressed that net indicators cannot be "mechanically followed".
It is said that the civil service team needs social support to go all out to fight the epidemic
The public's response to the survey results on the pay trend has been greatly rebounded. Nie Dequan said he understands the public's reaction. He pointed out that the salary adjustment of civil servants in a quiet and ordinary year will not cause much controversy, but the situation in the past year or even several years is obviously not the case.
He said of the past 29 pay adjustments, 10 were not based on net indicators, such as during the financial turmoil in 2000 and 2009.
Nie Dequan agrees that there is room for reviewing the details of the investigation, as he has no concerns about layoffs or closures, but believes that the investigation provides important reference data to understand the changes in the average salary of full-time employees in the private sector over the past year.
He also pointed out that if the government wants to retain talents, salaries and the private market must also remain competitive to a certain extent, and he believes that there should still be an adjustment mechanism for basic salaries.
He further explained that not all the government's past policies and measures were popular with the public, but they still need to be implemented in consideration of public interests. He also pointed out that the civil servants will stick to their posts in the fight against the epidemic, go all out, and actively respond to the mobilization of departments to participate in the anti-epidemic work. Social support to boost morale.
Nie Dequan earlier inspected the door-to-door vaccination service after the lockdown was lifted.
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There are still 600,000 citizens who have received two injections for 6 months and have not received the third injection
The third phase of the "vaccine passport" was implemented on Tuesday (31st), and Nie Dequan pointed out that there are still about 600,000 people who have not received the third dose 6 months after the second dose.
He pointed out that since the demand for vaccination in Hong Kong is gradually declining due to the increase in the vaccination rate, under the premise of prudent use of resources, several vaccination centers will be closed from June 1, but the daily dose of 70,000 doses will still be maintained. meet current needs.
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