{"id":170883,"date":"2026-06-18T06:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=170883"},"modified":"2026-06-18T06:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:03:01","slug":"lawmakers-split-over-2pc-civil-service-pay-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=170883","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers split over 2pc civil service pay hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1858716_1_M_20260616162519.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Lawmakers were supportive of the government&#8217;s decision to grant a pay increase to all civil servants, but several legislators expressed disappointment over what they viewed as an inadequate adjustment that failed to keep pace with inflation and private sector trends.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion came after the Chief Executive in Council on Tuesday decided on a uniform two percent pay increase for the 2026-27 financial year&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1858716-20260616.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers were supportive of the government&#8217;s dec [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}