Salaries and Conditions of Service for Members of the Secretariat

A/RES/31/193[B]View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 97 Joint Inspection Unit, published in 1977.

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

General Service Staff Job Classification Job Description Salaries and Allowances Strikes Working Conditions

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

A/RES/31/193 [B]

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Requests the International Civil Service Commission, as a matter of urgency, to establish, under the authority of article 11 (a) of its statute, the methods by which the principles for determining conditions of service in the General Service category at Geneva should be applied and, on the basis of such methodology and under the authority of article 12, paragraph 1, of its statute, to have a survey made of local employment conditions at Geneva, to make recommendations as to

80 A/31/417.

81 See A/31/ 137.

82A/31/137/Add.l, annex.

83 A/31/137 / Add.2.

84 Resolution 3357 (XXIX), annex.

811 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-first Session, Supplement No. 30 (A/31/3O), para. 337.

the salary scales deemed appropriate in the circumstances and to inform the General Assembly at its thirty-second session of the actions taken in this regard;

Further requests the International Civil Service Commission, in its examination of conditions of service of the General Service category at Geneva, to examine the basis on which recent substantial salary adjustments of staff in that category were determined and to take them fully into account in its consideration of the salaries of that category of staff and the methodology for future salary adjustments, in so far as they affect General Service staff at Geneva;

Urges the International Civil Service Commission, in carrying out these tasks, to take into account all aspects, especially paragraph 29 of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit on some aspects of the strike at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 25 February to 3 March 1976, the joint comments on the report received from the Administrative Committee on Coordination and the comments of the Secretary-General on recommendations 3 and 4 of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit, and invites its comments;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide the International Civil Service Commission in the first half of 1977 with job descriptions for the General Service category at Geneva, grouped according to common job functions, in order to enable the Commission to carry out its survey task;

Decides that all financial implications of a decision to raise salaries at Geneva should be covered by savings in the implementation of the United Nations budget for 1976-1977, including reductions in General Service posts, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-second session on such reductions as may have been made;

Further requests the Secretary-General to develop, in the course of 1977, job classification standards for the General Service category at Geneva and, based upon them, to introduce a job classification system, including a structure of occupational groups and a classification of posts;

Urges the Secretary-General, after completing the current review of relevant factors and making any upward interim salary adjustments appropriate for General Service category employees as at 1 January 1977, to refrain from making any further upward interim adjustments and from entering into any further commitments as to emoluments of General Service category employees at Geneva until the report and recommendations of the International Civil Service Commission requested in paragraph 3 above have been submitted;

Reaffirms its expectation that the Secretary-General will fully exercise his authority to ensure the effective and efficient implementation of administrative instructions concerning the delegation of responsibility and commensurate authority to the United Nations Office at Geneva;

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Decides that no salary shall be paid to staff members in respect of periods of unauthorized absence from work unless such absence was caused by reasons beyond their control or duly certified medical reasons.

CONDITIONS OF SERVICE OTHER ARRANGEMENTS ADMINISTRATIVE, BUDGETARY AND FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS

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