Civil Servants

Civil servants want pay linked to inflation

19 May 2013

Unionists made the call after a government committee indicated last week that pay rises for the city's 170,000 civil servants might not exceed 4 per cent - short of the inflation rate of 4.4 per...

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Hong Kong civil servants' pay set to trail inflation

16 May 2013

Hong Kong's 170,000 civil servants may gain pay rises of less than 4 per cent - short of their expectations - following the government's annual survey of private-sector pay trends, released...

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Tsang 'unable to find' legal document for flat swap

1 May 2013

Assistant highways director Tsang King-man prepared a declaration of trust to protect the interests of former development minister Mak Chai-kwong in a flat swap the two undertook, a court heard...

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Hong Kong government may raise civil servants' retirement age

23 Mar 2013

Civil servants in Hong Kong might have to work longer until retirement, as the government reviews the existing retirement age of 60. It is one of the options under consideration to deal with the...

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Redeveloping civil servants' co-op estates needs active consideration

3 Feb 2013

Why travel in a straight line when you can take a twisted path? That seems to be the way the government operates. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has made increasing housing supply the centrepiece...

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Retired civil servants offer housing estates to ease land shortage

27 Jan 2013

"[Chief Executive] Leung Chun-ying has been trying to increase land supply by different means such as developing the New Territories North, but there are difficulties," said Wong Pak-yan, the...

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Unionists hit out over cut-price civil servants

The government should start giving proper staff jobs to the thousands of civil servants it has employed for years on cheap contracts designed for temporary workers, unionists urged yesterday.

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Paternity leave plan labelled ridiculous by gender equality campaigners

The government's proposal to give new fathers three days' paid leave when it already grants its civil servants five days' paternity leave has been condemned as absurd by a group campaigning for...

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Officials continue to enjoy unfair medical benefits, despite reforms

Civil servants in the eastern city of Nanjing will lose their privileged access to medical treatment next week, making it the last city in the Yangtze River Delta to implement a reform launched by...

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