Two former Urban Services Department workers who were sacked and convicted for falsifying their work records are fighting to get their pensions back.
Fu Chung-wing, 43, and Leung Yik-wai, 53, yesterday appealed to the Secretariat on Civil Service Discipline against alleged biased treatment in their dismissal.
They were dismissed in 2000 after serving four-month and six-month sentences respectively. Their dismissal means they are no longer entitled to pensions, which were worth $500,000 to Mr Fu case and $470,000 to Mr Leung.
Legislator Albert Chan Wai-yip, of the Democratic Party, who supports the men, accused the government of 'discriminatory and unfair treatment towards low-grade civil servants'.
Mr Chan mentioned the case of former tax chief Agnes Sin Law Yuk-lin, who was allowed to keep a pension of about $7 million despite being convicted for defrauding the government of $330,000 and receiving a nine-month suspended prison sentence.
Both men had been civil servants with different departments for more than 20 years. They possessed good records before their transfer to the now-defunct Urban Services Department in 1998, and Mr Leung received an 'Elite Public Servant' award in 1996 in commendation of his work.