Transcript of remarks by SLW on NGOs' Review Reports on Remuneration Packages for Staff in the Top Three Tiers
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Reporter: (NGOs' remuneration packages for staff in the top three tiers)
Secretary for Labour and Welfare: … (inaudible) The Social Welfare Department will examine those data, whether they are comparable with the government pay. We understand that in a number of NGOs, because they do not have similar fringe benefits as provided under the civil servants' arrangement, therefore they encash those cash benefits into the salary. So, in numeric values, we have to discount what we sometimes call "on-cost" , that is translated into salary of the NGOs' staff. As a result, we do consider those salaries are comparable to the civil servants' standards.
(Please also refer to the Chinese portion of the transcript.)
Ends/Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Issued at HKT 15:18
Issued at HKT 15:18
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