An influential advisory body on civil service pay may discuss whether to go ahead with the regular pay trend survey as calls grow to freeze civil service pay next year.
The move came after several civil service unions sought a freeze, pending completion of a review of the pay policy review, which covers the pay adjustment mechanism.
The Senior Non-expatriate Officers Association has suggested pay should be frozen while the annual pay trend survey on the private sector is carried out as usual, starting next month and completed in May.
The survey serves as a reference for the government in determining pay adjustments for the civil service.
Any salary adjustment for the civil service would then be backdated.
There have been suggestions the annual survey should be suspended instead during the review.
Yeung Ka-sing, chairman of the Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service, said the commission might need to call a meeting on how to handle the issue.
