Review of the United Nations Salary System : Amendments to the Staff Regulations of the United Nations

A/RES/31/141[B]View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 103 Report of the International Civil Service Commission, published in 1977.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

General Service Staff International Civil Service Professional Staff Rules and Regulations Salaries and Allowances

What’s in this document?

21 operative paragraphs

A/RES/31/141 [B]

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Decides that the International Civil Service Commission, as a standing body, should keep under continual review the relationship between the levels of remuneration of the comparator civil service, at present the United States Civil Service, and the United Nations system, having due regard to all relevant factors, including the differences between the two services, and decides that at any time when the Commission considers corrective action is necessary it should either recommend such action to the General Assembly or, if urgent conservatory action is necessary between sessions of the Assembly to prevent an undue widening of the margin of United Nations remuneration over that of the comparator civil service, take appropriate measures itself within the operation of the post adjustment system;

Decides that:

The equivalent of five classes of post adjustment shall be consolidated into the base salaries of the Professional and higher categories;

( b) The base of the post adjustment system shall be changed from New York at 100 as at December 1969 to New York at 100 as at November 1973;

Approves the revised scales of staff assessment rates, post adjustment rates and gross and net salaries for the Professional and higher categories as set out in the annex to the present resolution;

Authorizes temporary transitional payments, which shall not be pensionable, to be made to staff members whose remuneration under the revised scales would be less than under the existing scales, the amounts of these payments and the modalities for their gradual reduction and ultimate elimination to be determined by the Commission;

Decides that, in cases where the revised level of pensionable remuneration would be less than the level which would otherwise exist on 1 January 1977, the latter level shall be maintained temporarily until it is overtaken by the revised level;

Decides that terminal payments ( termination indemnities, repatriation grants, payments in lieu of accrued annual leave, death grants) which are defined in terms of "base salary or wage" shall henceforth be defined in terms of "pensionable remuneration less staff assessment";

Decides to abolish for the Professional and higher categories the existing allowance for a dependent spouse, the prevailing amount of the allowance being incorporated into the revised base salary;

Decides to increase for the Professional and higher categories the amount of the allowance for a secondary dependant to $300 per year;

65 A/31/239.

66 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-first Session, Supplement No. 8 (A/31/8 and Add.1-26), document A/31/8/ Add.6.

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Decides to amend the scales of amounts of the repatriation grant for staff members of the Professional and higher categories with and without dependants as set out in the annex to the present resolution;

Decides:

To revise the percentage of approved costs reimbursable under the provisions of the education grant as fol1ows:

Expenses up to $2,000 75 per cent Expenses between $2,001 and $3,000 50 per cent Expenses between $3,001 and $4,000 25 per cent (b)

To increase the flat amount allowable for boarding expenses, in case of attendance at an educational institution outside the duty station where the institution does not provide board, to $750;

Decides to amend the conditions and rates of the termination indemnity as set out in the annex to the present resolution;

Decides that, pending the results of further study by the Commission of the remuneration of the General Service category and to avoid in the meanwhile any reduction in the level of General Service pensionable remuneration which might result from the application to General Service salaries of the revised staff assessment rates established under paragraph 3 above for the Professional and higher categories, the existing rates of staff assessment shall continue, as a temporary measure, to apply to the General Service category;

Approves the amendments to the Staff Regulations of the United Nations necessary to give effect to the above decisions, as set out in the annex to the present resolution;

Invites the Secretary-General to make such consequential changes as are necessary in the Staff Rules and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty-second session in accordance with the provisions of regulation 12.2 of the Staff Regulations;

Decides that the date of entry into effect of the above decisions shall be 1 January 1977;

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Recommends that the International Civil Service Commission should carry forward its study of possible

further reforms in the international civil service salary system and, in that connexion, requests the Commission to report to the General Assembly on the feasibility of establishing a modified system of post adjustments, taking into account the views expressed in paragraph 229 of its report;67 2.

Notes the intention of the Commission to pursue studies with a view to arriving at a methodology permitting comparison of "total compensation" between the comparator civil service and the United Nations salary system and requests the Commission to carry out this comparison at all levels and to report its findings to the General Assembly no later than at its thirty-third session;

Requests the Commission to re-examine, in the light of the views expressed in the Fifth Committee at the current session:

The conditions for the provision of terminal payments (for example, repatriation grant, termination

67 Ibid., Supplement No. 30 (A/31/30), part two, and A/31/30/ Add, 1. indemnities), in particular on retirement, and the possibility of establishing a ceiling for the maximum aggregate of entitlements to these payments;

The possible introduction of an "end-of-service" grant with particular attention to the conditions in which such payment might be justified;

( c) The need for an allowance for post-secondary education of children of expatriate staff and, in particular, the need for an allowance to cover education in countries other than the home country of the staff member;

Requests the Commission to consider and propose to the General Assembly at its thirty-second session measures by which the maximum amount of the lump sum payable to the dependent spouse or dependent child of a staff member who dies in service would be aligned on the scale for termination indemnities approved under paragraph 11 of section I above.

SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CML SERVICE COMMISSION

REVIEW OF THE UNITED NATIONS SALARY SYSTEM:

AMENDMENTS TO THE STAFF REGULATIONS OF THE UNITED NATIONS

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Assttssm,mt (pttr cent)

Staff 1'Nml,i,r Stal/ mnnbi,r with nttlthn with a thpttnd11nt adttpttndttnt Total assessable payments spounora spounnora (US dollars)

dttpttnthnt child thpttnthnt chlltl

50 55.5 57.5 59.5

Total assessable paymffltS Assessment (US dollars)

(per cent)

ANNEX I

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

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