Report of the International Civil Service Commission

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 111 Report of the International Civil Service Commission, published in 1979.

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11 documents · 1976–1982

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1982	A/RES/37/126	Report of the International Civil Service Commission	1,043	–
1982	A/RES/36/233	Report of the International Civil Service Commission	666	–
1981	A/RES/35/214[C]	Report of the International Civil Service Commission	—	–
1981	A/RES/35/214[B]	Report of the International Civil Service Commission	—	–
1981	A/RES/35/214A-C	Report of the International Civil Service Commission resolutions	—	–

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11 subjects

Administrative Courts and Tribunals Career Development Dependency Allowances Education Grant Expatriate Workers International Civil Service Reimbursement Repatriation Grant Rules and Regulations Salaries and Allowances Termination of Employment

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17 operative paragraphs

Urges the competent authorities of all organizations of the United Nations common system to refrain from actions which do not contribute to the strengthening and development of the common system;

Requests the Secretary-General and his colleagues on the Administrative Committee on Coordination to study the feasibility of establishing a single administrative tribunal for the entire common system and to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session;

Calls upon Member States to ensure that their representatives in the governing organs of the specialized agencies do not take, on matters of concern to the common system, positions conflicting with those which they took in the General Assembly;

II 1.

Expresses the hope that, notwithstanding the pressure of urgent problems concerning remuneration, the International Civil Service Commission will be able to assume progressively its functions under articles 13 and 14 of its statute and make progress in 1979 in its consideration of those aspects of personnel policy other than remuneration mentioned in paragraphs 309 to 329 of the report of the Commission, in particular career development and those other aspects which have occupied the General Assembly's attention at its current session;

Approves the Commission's intention to keep under review the effects of currency instability upon the United Nations common system of salaries and allowances, to continue its efforts to eliminate possible anomalies in post adjustments at certain duty stations and to seek to improve the system;

Also approves the Commission's intention to make, as a matter of priority, a comprehensive examination of the functioning, methods of establishment and adjustment and appropriate level of pensionable remuneration, in particular with a view to preparing, in co-operation with the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, proposals to be submitted to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session for correcting anomalies in the United Nations pension system brought about by the current economic and monetary circumstances;

94 A/C.5/33/37.

Session, Fifth Committee, 32nd meeting, para. 63.

III Notes the information provided by the report of the International Civil Service Commission on the evolution of the relationship between remuneration of the Professional and higher categories of the United Nations common system and the comparator national civil service and the Commission's conclusion on safeguards existing against possible undue widening of the margin between the levels of the remuneration of the two services resulting from the operation of the post adjustment system;96 2.

Approves the use, for the purpose of making such salary comparisons, of the table of grading equivalencies recommended by the Commission in paragraph 92 of its report and requests the Commission to continue its study of grade equivalencies between the United Nations common system and the comparator national civil service, in order to determine the proper equivalent grades in the comparator system for the United Nations grades of Director (D-2) and Assistant Secretary-General, and to report its findings to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session;

Further requests the Commission to study the feasibility of identifying posts of equivalent functions and responsibilities for the post of Under-Secretary- General and to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session;

IV 1.

Decides that, with effect from 1 January 1979, the amount of the dependency allowances payable in local currency to staff in the Professional and higher categories shall not be less than the local currency equivalent of the dollar amount of the allowance at the time it was established or last revised;

Further decides that the scale of termination indemnities established by the General Assembly in its resolution 31/141 of 17 December 1976 be amended to provide that the indemnity payable to a staff member holding a fixed-term appointment with less than six years' completed service shall not exceed three months' pensionable remuneration less staff assessment;

Requests the International Civil Service Commission to give further study to the question of an end-of-service grant payable to staff members with fixed-term appointments in the context of its examination of the relationship between career staff and fixed-term staff in the common system, ensuring that such a grant does not become a form of pre-pension plan, and to make recommendations to the General Assembly not later than at its thirty-fifth session;

Decides that payment of the repatriation grant to entitled staff members shall be made conditional upon the presentation by the staff member of evidence of actual relocation, subject to the terms to be established by the Commission;

Approves the rates of the payment to be made to the spouse or dependent children of a staff member who dies in service, as set out in the schedule contained in paragraph 194 of the Commission's report;

Decides that the existing age limit for eligibility to the education grant be replaced by the formula "up to the end of the fourth year of post-secondary studies

96 Ibid., Thirty-third Session, Supplement No. 30 (A/33/30), para. 142.

or the award of the first recognized degree, whichever is the earlier";

Decides also that expenses incurred by expatriate staff members for the post-secondary studies of their children in the -country of the parent's duty station shall be eligible for reimbursement under the education grant, with effect from the beginning of the academic year in course of 1 January 1979;

Further decides that when, for the purpose of applying the scale of reimbursements approved for the education grant, the expenses incurred by a staff member in a currency other than the United States dollar are converted into dollars, the rate of exchange used shall be whichever is the higher of that which was in force at the date when the existing scale of reimbursements came into effect or that in force at the date when the reimbursement is made, the same rate being used in converting the dollar amount of the reimbursement into the currency in which it is to be paid;

Approves the extension of the provision of the education grant to include the reimbursements of the expenses incurred by staff members for the special education of their disabled children, upon the terms and conditions specified in paragraph 246 of the Commission's report and in the annex to the present resolution;

Invites the Commission to reconsider its intention to extend the assignment allowance from five to seven years;

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, and 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-fourth session in accordance with the provisions of regulation 12.2 of the Staff Regulations;

Decides that the above decisions shall enter into effect on 1 January 1979, except where otherwise specified.

ADJUSTMENT OF BENEFITS IN RESPECT OF COST-OF-LIVING CHANGES

TRANSFER OF PENSION RIGHTS ANNEX Amendments to the Staff Regulations of the United Nations EMERGENCY FUND

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

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