HONG KONG: Civil servants here have agreed to accept pay cuts of about 6%, rolling their salaries back to what they were in 1997 as part of a plan to cut public expenditure to close a gaping deficit, a minister said yesterday.
In this community which is already full of conflicts, full of finger-pointing, I believe we have set a good example and I believe this is something which should be applauded, said the secretary for civil service Joseph Wong.
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