Amendments to the Staff Regulations and Rules

A/RES/70/256No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 139Human resources management, published in 2016.

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2 versions · 2016–2024

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5 topics

Home Leave International Civil Service Personnel Management Repatriation Grant Rules and Regulations

What does this mandate say?

4 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;1

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;2

Decides that staff regulation 5.3 shall be amended to read:

Regulation 5.3

Eligible staff members shall be granted home leave once in every 24 months. However, the Secretary-General may grant home leave once in every 12 months to eligible staff members in duty stations having the most difficult conditions of life and work under specific conditions, as approved by the General Assembly. A staff member whose home country is either the country of his or her official duty station or the country of his or her normal residence while in United Nations service shall not be eligible for home leave.

Also decides that annex IV to the Staff Regulations shall be amended to read:

Repatriation grant

In principle, the repatriation grant shall be payable to staff members who have completed at least five years of qualifying service, whom the Organization is obligated to repatriate and who at the time of separation are residing, by virtue of their service with the United Nations, outside their country of nationality. The repatriation grant shall not, however, be paid to a staff member who is dismissed. Eligible staff members shall be entitled to a repatriation grant only upon relocation outside the country of the duty station. Detailed conditions and definitions relating to eligibility and requisite evidence of relocation shall be determined by the Secretary-General.