The final phase of the Government's five-day week initiative will begin July 1, involving 10,500 civil servants, the Civil Service Bureau says.

By then, about 94,300 staff will be on a five-day week work mode, including a 'five-day-work, two-day-off' duty pattern.

However, 51,200 civil servants may still have to continue with their current work patterns. They are mainly engaged in the provision of services that continue to operate weekends. These include social welfare, immigration counter, cultural, postal, and environmental hygiene services, along with law enforcement, passenger and cargo clearance, and penal operations.

Departments can continue to explore the feasibility of allowing more frontline staff to work according to a five-day-work, two-day-off schedule, provided that service is unaffected, the bureau said.

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