CIVIL service unionists yesterday boycotted a meeting with officials in protest against a proposal to cut the number of public rental flats reserved for them.
They said they had not been consulted on the adjustment.
The Civil Service Branch had arranged a meeting to explain the cut yesterday afternoon with representatives of the Junior Police Officers' Association, Senior Civil Services' Council, Disciplined Services' Consultative Council, and Model Scale I Staff Consultative Council.
A staff spokesman said civil servants might have to wait for 10 years for a public flat if the quota was reduced. Morale would be hit.
Junior civil servants are entitled to apply for flats under the Housing Authority's civil service public housing quota scheme.
The quota for the current financial year will shrink by 42 per cent from last year's 1,300 units to 750. The adjustment is due to an expected drop in the supply of rental housing in the next two years.
