Hong Kong to raise retirement age for new civil servants

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government said on Monday that it will adopt a higher retirement age for new recruits with effect from June 1.

Specifically, the retirement age of new recruits appointed to the Civil Service on or after June 1, 2015, will be raised to 65 in respect of the civilian grades, and 60 in respect of disciplined services grades, regardless of their ranks.

For serving civil servants, flexible measures for extending their service will be formulated with a view to addressing the different operational and succession needs of individual grades or departments, maintaining effective management of the Civil Service, and balancing the interests of different cohorts of civil servants.

A government spokesman said the Civil Service Bureau is hammering out the implementation details for the remaining measures, including that for adjusting the further employment mechanism.

As announced in the 2015 Policy Address and Policy Agenda, the HKSAR government will raise the retirement age for civil service new recruits in mid-2015.