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Tighter civil service disciplinary rules risk becoming excessive: union head

South China Morning Post · 🇭🇰 public Hong Kong · · 240 words · By Wynna Wong
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Tighter civil service disciplinary rules risk becoming excessive: union head Federation of Civil Service Unions chairman raises concerns over civil servant retention amid efforts to deal with underperforming staff The head of a civil service union federation…

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What happened

Tighter civil service disciplinary rules risk becoming excessive: union head Federation of Civil Service Unions chairman raises concerns over civil servant retention amid efforts to deal with underperforming staff The head of a civil service union federation…

Why it matters

Leung Chau-ting, chairman of the Federation of Civil Service Unions, was responding to the Civil Service Bureau’s reply to a lawmaker’s inquiry this week about revising the regulations to further optimise the disciplinary mechanism, including tightening rules…

Common ground

The bureau said it aimed to implement the revised Public Service (Administration) Order and the Public Service (Disciplinary) Regulation this year.

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“The Civil Service Bureau aims to implement the revised Public Service (Administration) Order and the Public Service (Disciplinary) Regulation this year.”
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Wikipedia entries describe the Civil Service Bureau's general role but do not mention any plans to implement revised regulations in 2025. No other sources provide relevant information.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Civil Service Bureau (CSB) is a policy bureau under the Government Secretariat of the Government of Hong Kong and is responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies on the managemen…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Hong Kong Civil Service is managed by 13 policy bureaux in the Government Secretariat, and 67 departments and agencies, mostly staffed by civil servants. The Secretary for the Civil Service (SCS) …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of government agencies of the Hong Kong Government. The policies of the government are formulated decided by the bureaux led by secretaries and permanent secretaries are discussed in th…
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“151 civil servants had been dismissed for serious misconduct or criminal offences between 2022 and 2025.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SM U-151 or SM Unterseeboot 151 (ex U Oldenburg) was a World War I U-boat of the Imperial German Navy, constructed by Reiherstieg Schiffswerfte & Maschinenfabrik at Hamburg and launched on 4 April 191…
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“The number of dismissals dropped steadily from 60 in 2022-23 to 51 in 2023-24 and 40 in 2024-25.”
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Wikipedia entries discuss unrelated topics (Area 51, Bofors gun, Iranian air bases) and provide no data about civil service dismissal trends in Hong Kong.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60 (often referred to simply as the "Bofors 40 mm gun", the "Bofors gun" and the like, see name) is an anti-aircraft autocannon, designed in the 1930s by the Swedish a…
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“Of the total dismissals, 73 were dismissed for criminal offences and 78 for misconduct.”
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“Dismissals among police officers were the highest at 44.”
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