A union federation head in Hong Kong cautioned that the government's proposed disciplinary revisions for public employees risk becoming overly strict. The union opposes tightening rules on salary withholdings during suspensions.

The head of a civil service union federation in Hong Kong has warned that tighter disciplinary action risks becoming excessive as the government seeks to revise the penalty system to handle underperforming workers this year. Leung Chau-ting, chairman of the Federation of Civil Service Unions, was responding to the Civil Service Bureau’s plan to revise the regulations to further improve the disciplinary mechanism, including tightening rules on withholding salaries during suspensions and...