| (1) | Motion on "Urging the Government to defend freedom of the press and freedom of speech", moved by Hon Albert CHAN Wai-yip as amended by Hon LAU Kong-wah, Hon Andrew CHENG Kar-foo and Hon Tommy CHEUNG Yu-yan
"That, as hosts of personal-view programmes have recently successively told the media that they are under pressure, and individual hosts have even taken themselves off the air, and the public at large are worried that freedom of the press and freedom of speech in Hong Kong are at stake, this Council expresses grave concern about this and urges the Government to expeditiously find out the truth of these incidents and take measures to ensure that members of the media and their families are free from harassment and threats of violence and to smooth out the public's worries, so as to defend such freedoms."
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| (2) | Motion on "Safeguarding the rights and benefits of public servants and staff of outsourced government services", moved by Hon LEUNG Fu-wah as amended by Hon Andrew CHENG Kar-foo
"That, as the largest employer in Hong Kong, the Government of the Special Administrative Region should set an example of a good employer to ensure that all employees of the Government and subvented organizations as well as contract staff of outsourced government services are under reasonable labour protection; to this end, this Council urges the Government to:
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| (a) | strictly enforce the requirements of the Basic Law concerning protection of the rights and benefits of public servants;
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| (b) | safeguard the rights and benefits of public servants newly recruited after 1 June 2000 in accordance with the principles of fair and reasonable treatment;
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| (c) | draw up a reasonable and appropriate public servants establishment;
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| (d) | enhance the protection for contract staff employed on non-civil service contract terms and staff of subvented organizations in regard to their posts, pay and benefits; and
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| (e) | strictly monitor government contractors to ensure that they adopt the average wages of similar trades published in the Census and Statistics Department's Quarterly Report of Wages and Payroll Statistics as the standard of minimum allowable wage for non-skilled workers involved in outsourced government services, and fully enforce this requirement and to extend it to the outsourced services contracts of public organizations and public corporation."
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