The Civil Service Bureau (CSB) is one of the 15 policy bureaux under the Government Secretariat of the
Government of Hong Kong and is responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies on the management of the
Hong Kong Civil Service
The Hong Kong Civil Service is managed by 13 policy bureaux in the Government Secretariat (Hong Kong), Government Secretariat, and 67 departments and agencies, mostly staffed by civil servants. The Secretary for the Civil Service (SCS) is one of t ...
.
The Civil Service Bureau (CSB) is led by the
Secretary for the Civil Service
The Secretary for the Civil Service is the head of the Civil Service Bureau in Hong Kong. Unlike other secretaries for bureaux, the Secretary for the Civil Service is filled by an administrative officer from the civil service, who may choose to ...
and has approximately 600 staff.
The CSB absorbed the
Official Languages Agency
An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority, (either their own or that of their su ...
(from 1 July 2003) and the
Civil Service Training and Development Institute
Civil may refer to:
*Civic virtue, or civility
*Civil action, or lawsuit
* Civil affairs
*Civil and political rights
*Civil disobedience
*Civil engineering
*Civil (journalism), a platform for independent journalism
*Civilian, someone not a membe ...
(from 1 April 2004).
On 15 January 2021, the CSB announced that civil servants must either sign an oath or a declaration to pledge loyalty to the government. In response, Leung Chau-ting, chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Civil Service Unions, said that the requirements were too vague and that the requirement would give the government power to discipline civil servants.
In February 2021, the CSB announced that they will build both a temporary and permanent academy to teach civil servants about national affairs and the
national security law.
In July 2022, figures were released, showing the CSB had the highest amount of employee resignations since the
1997 handover across multiple pay levels, in addition to declining applications for open positions.
In August 2022, the CSB said it would take more measures against misbehaving civil servants, after civil servants represented about a third of all fired government employees.
Additionally, 70 others were fired after not signing an oath to pledge loyalty to the government.
In October 2022, Ingrid Yeung, head of the CSB, said that they would remove the requirement of "political neutrality" as one of the six core values in the Civil Service Code, a value which previously allowed non-high ranking civil servants to join any political party or take part in related activities if it does not raise a conflict of interest or bias.
Civil Service College
The Civil Service College is administered by the CSB. In October 2022, the head of the College, Oscar Kwok Yam-shu, said that some civil servants lacked a deep understanding of the country or national identity.
See also
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Hong Kong Civil Service
The Hong Kong Civil Service is managed by 13 policy bureaux in the Government Secretariat (Hong Kong), Government Secretariat, and 67 departments and agencies, mostly staffed by civil servants. The Secretary for the Civil Service (SCS) is one of t ...
References
External links
Official website of the Civil Service Bureau
Hong Kong government policy bureaux
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