United Nations Salary, Allowance and Benefits System

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 51United Nations salary, allowance and benefits system, published in 1957.

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10 topics

Dependency Allowances Disability Benefits Employee Dismissal Medical Treatment Pensionable Remuneration Post Adjustment Repatriation Grant Salaries and Allowances Staff Assessment Temporary Employment

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6 operative paragraphs

Requcsts the Secretary-General, in conjunction with the executi\T heads of the specialized agencies concerne

To review the question of the pensionable remuneration of the staff with a view to making recommendations for action by the General Assembly;

( b) To provicle for death and disability protection for members of the staff on temporary appointments for a fixed terrn, if practicable by eventual amendment of the Regulations of the Joint Staff Pension Fund;

Resolves to amend the provisions of General Assembly resolution 359 (IV) of 10 December 1949,

"'A/3209.

""Official Records of the Gener-al Assembly, Eleventh Session, Annexes, agenda item 51, document A/C.5/691.

.. Ibid., document A/3505.

"'Ibid., documen' A/3558.

as amended by resolution 973 C (X) of 15 December 1955 dealing with the Staff Assessment Plan, i.Jy adding a new text, as set forth in paragraph 7, which will become staff regulation 3.3 ;

Authorizes the Secretary-General to broaden the existing medical and hospital care schemes applicable to the staff, with effect from 1 June 1957 or as soon thereafter as may proYe practicable, these schemes to be financed on the basis of an over-all sharing of the costs by the participating staff and the Organization on an approximately equal basis in such a manner that a larger measure of financial assistance will be granted to staff in the lower salary Ievels than to staff in the higher salary levels ;

Authorizes the Secretary-General to pay, as a transitional measure, persona! allowances to present staff members who would otherwise suffer a reduction in emoluments through the initial application of new rates or conditions for dependency allowances, such persona! allowances to be decreased and eventually eliminated according to a procedure to be prescribed by the Secretary-General;

Resoh•es that the Staff Regulations of the United Nations be amended as follows with effect from 1 January 1957:

Annex I, paragraph 3 Replace the present text by the following:

"A Director shall receive a salary of $US 18,000 per annum (subject to the Staff Assessment Plan provided in s:aff regulation 3.3 and to post adjustments wherever applied) and, if otherwise eligible, shall receive the allowances which are available to staff members generally. In addition,

the Secretary-General is authorized, on the basis of appropriate justification and/or reporting, to make additional paymcnts to Directors to compensate for such special costs as may be reasonably incurred in the interest of the Organization in the performance of duties assigned to them by the Secretary-General. The maximum annual payment for any one Director shall be $1,000."

Annex I, paragraph 4 Replace the present text by the following :

"Except as provided in paragraph 6 of the present annex,

the salary scales for staff members in the Principal Officer and Director category and in the Professional category shall be as follows ( subject to the Staff Assesment Plan provided in staff regulation 3.J and to post adj ustments wherever applied) :

"( Subject to the Staff Assessment Plan provided by staff regulation 3.3 and to post adjustments wherever applied)"

In the table change the rate for Director to $18,000.

Annex I, paragraph 9 (Post adjustments)

Replace the present text by the following :

"In order to preserve equivalent standards of living at different offices, the Secretary-General may adj ust the basic salaries set forth in paragraphs 3 and 4 of this annex by the application of non-pensionable post adj ustments, the amounts of which shall be determined on the basis of relative costs of living, standards of living and related factors at the office concerned as compared to Geneva on 1 January 1956. Such post adjustments shall not be subject to the Staff Assessment Plan and their a:nounts shall vary by salary level as determined from time to time by the General Assembly." Regulation 3.2 (Children's allowances and education grants)

Delete the first paragraph in order to eliminate the reference to children's allowances.

Delete the word "also" from the first line of the second paragraph. Deiete the words "the children's allowance or" from the fourth paragraph. Delete paragraph 1 of annex IV dealing with children's allowances. Regulation 3.3 (Staff Assessment Plan former/y in resolution 359 (IV), as amended by resolution 973 C (X)) Add the following new text :

" (a) An assessment at the rates and under the conditions specified below shall be applied to the salaries and emoluments of staff members, but not to dependency benefits or to post adjustments, provided that the Secretary-General may, where he deems it advisable, exempt from the assessment the salaries and other emoluments of staff engaged at locality rates.

" ( /J) The assessment shall be calculated according to the following rates: Total assessable pasments Assessment Kot excee

Remaining assessable payments .............. 50 percent " ( c) [ Same text as article 3 ( b) which appears in resolution 359 (IV) l.

"( dJ [Same text as article 6 which appears in resolution 359 (IV)].

"(e) [Same text as article 7 which appears in resolution 973 C (X)]." Add, as paragraph (f) the text of article 8 which appears in resolution 973 C (X), with the addition of the following sub-paragraph :

"A payment under the conditions prescribed in the three preceding sub-paragraphs is authorized in respect of dependency benefits and post adj ustments, which are not subject to staff assessment, but may be subject to national income taxation."

Hegulation 3.4 (Dcpendency benefits) Add the following new text:

'"(a) Staff members in the Principal Officer and Director category and in the Professional category shall be entitled to receive dependency allowances as follows:

·•(i) At $200 per annum for a dependent wife or dependend husband and at $300 per annum for each dependent child; or "(ii) Where there is no dependent spouse, a single annual allowance for $200 for either a dependent parent, a dependent brother or a dependent sister.

" ( b) If both husband and wi fe are staff members, one may daim, for de pendent children, under ( i) above, in which case the other may daim only under (ii) above, if otherwise entitled.

" ( c) Staff members whose salary rates are set by the Secretary-General under paragraph 6 or paragraph 7 of annex I to these regulations shall be entitled to receive dependency allowances at rates -nd under conditions determined by the Secretary-General, due regard being given to the circumstances in the locality in which the office is situated.

"(d) Claims for dependency allowances shall be submitted in writing and supported by evidence satisfactory to the Secretary-General.

A separate daim for dependency allowances shall be made each year."

Add to paragraph ( d) a new item as follows :

"A staff member who for disciplinary reasons is dismissed for misconduct otherwise than by summary dismissal, provided that the Secretary-General may grant in such a case, at his discretion, a termination indemnity in any amount not exceeding the full indemnity provided under

paragraphs (a), ( b) or ( e) of this annex, whichever is applicable." Add a new paragraph (f) to read :

"A staff member whose appointment is terminated for reasons of health shall receive the termination indemnity set out in this annex, to the extent that the amount of the termination indemnity, when added to the annual amount of the disability benefit payable to him under the Regulations of the Joint Staff Pension Fund, does not exceed one year's salary."

Regulation 9.4 and annex IV ( Repatriation grant and service bene fit)

Replace the present text of regulation 9.4 by the following :

"The Secretary-General shall establish a scheme for the r,ayment of repatriation grants or service benefits within the maximum rates and under the conditions specified in annex IV to the present regulations."

Renumber the repatriation grant provision as paragraph 1 of annex IV and replace the first sentence of that provision by the following text :

"In principle, the repatriation grant shall be payable to staff members whom the Organization is obligated to repatriate, except staff members on temporary appointments for a fixed term entitled to a service benefit. N either repatriation grant nor service benefit shall be paid to a staff member who is summarily dismissed."

Insert as paragraph 2 in annex IV a new provision entitled "Service benefit", as follows :

"(a) If his letter of appointment so indicates, a staff member who has served at least one year on a temporary appointment for a fixed term shall receive upon separation a service benefit at the rate of 4 per cent of salary during service in his home country and at the rate of 8 per cent of salary during service outside his home country, for each year of service.

" ( b) Should such a staff member, without break in service, be granted a probationary or permanent appointment,

or complete live years of qualifying service on temporary appointment for a fixed term, he shall !ose entitlement to the service benefit.

"(c) Service for calculation of the service benefit shall mean service subsequent to the entry of this provision in the letter of appointment."

27 February 1957.

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