The Executive Council yesterday (6th) proposed a uniform 2.5% salary increase for civil servants at all levels.
The Secretary for the Civil Service, Yeung Ho Pei-yin, said on the RTHK program this morning that the range has fully taken into account the needs of civil servants, revealing that the government itself has the option of freezing wages.
No denial of "political decision"
Yang He Beiyin emphasized that the salary trend survey is only one of the six factors to be considered, and the well-being of civil servants has never been placed "lower on the scale", and she disagrees with the statement that the relevant decision is "tilted in favor of the business community".
She threatened that when considering this year's salary adjustment, "we have thought about the salary freeze, and we have thought about it too high," but finally came up with a figure of 2.5%, believing that the needs of civil servants have been fully considered, but admitted that "there is no formula. for everyone to listen to.”
When asked if the AM is a "political decision", Yang He Beiyin pointed out that politics is everyone's business. From this perspective, civil servants are part of the society, and their business is also everyone's business.
She said that she is quite confident in the performance of civil servants and will meet with the four central councils of civil servants today.
Feng Chuanzong: Deliberately magnifying the negative factors
Fung Chuan-chung, chairman of the Civil Service Union, pointed out on the same program that the government's approach this time is to deliberately magnify some negative factors and use "comprehensive consideration" as an excuse to undermine the pay investigation mechanism of the past decades.
He also mentioned that the Financial Secretary Chen Maobo once said that the economic environment would improve in the second half of this year, and he was full of confidence in Hong Kong's future economic prospects, but why did he use the phrase "the economic outlook is unstable" to reduce the growth rate when talking about the salary increase of civil servants? Question why.
He pointed out that last night, many colleagues reported that the government had listened to too many negative comments on civil servants from the outside world, but had not taken into account the situation of civil servants.
Li Kuiyan, president of the Chinese Association, said that in the past few years, civil servants have frozen their salaries.
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The trade union strives for 4 to 5%. The guild members are bearish on the uniform 2.5% salary increase for civil servants.
Yang He Beiyin: No worries about brain drain until the final decision, civil servants will increase their salaries by 2.5% Guo Weiqiang: It is better than freezing salaries Three MPs advocate that salary increases should be linked to performance