A KEY department failed to ask cleaning staff to work harder even though a study carried out 14 years ago indicated a productivity problem, it has emerged.
A Provisional Urban Council committee, which probed the case of night-shift sewer workers caught sleeping and playing cards this year, found the Urban Services Department failed to implement a recommendation suggested in a 1985 report.
A copy of the report has been seen by the Sunday Morning Post.
Members of an inquiry were angered by the findings and planned to condemn the department in a report to be released early next month.
The committee meets on Tuesday to finalise the report.
Committee member Wong Chung-ki said: 'There is also no evidence showing the department has submitted the internal report to the Urban Council for debate.
