Salary, Allowance and Leave System of the United Nations

A/RES/470(V)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1951.

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Children's Allowance Cost of Living Home Leave International Civil Service Paid Leave Pensionable Remuneration Principles Repatriation Grant Rules and Regulations Salaries and Allowances Top Echelon Staff

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

A_qrecs upon the desirability of simplifying the organization and classification of the staff in accordance with the principles 23 set forth by the Committee of Experts on Salary, Allowance and Leave Systems as endorsed by the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and by the Secretary- General;

R esolvcs that provisional staff regulation 16 be amended, with effect from 1 January 1951, to read as follows:

"Salaries of staff members shall be fixed by the Secretary-General in accordance with the provisions outlined in the attach1cd ::mnex I to the present regulations" ;

Rcsol7.!es that the Secretary-General shall be

guided by the following principles in applying the salary provisions specified in ann1cx I to the Provisional Staff Regulations to s1aff rnernbers who, on 31 Decernber 1950, were serving unc\er indeterminate appointment, temporary indefinite appointment or regular fixed term appointment, and who continue in service after 1 January 1951:

( i) Subject to efficiency, staff members whose salaries on 31 Decernber 1950 are above the ceilings of the new salary levels to which their posts are assigned shall receive· the difference as a pensionable personal allowance; provided, however, that such allowance shall not exceed the equivalent of three additional steps beyond the maximum of their new salary levels ;

Subjeet to efficiency, staff members who were proceeding to a maximum in their former grades higher than the maximum of the appropriate new salary levels shall continue to receive increments on the basis of the new scales until they have reached a point equal to the maximum of their former grades or a point equivalent to three steps beyond the maximum of their new salary levels, whichever is the lower, that part of the salary which exceeds the maximum being considered as a pensionable personal allowance ;

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These arrangements shall have reference only to salaries (including cost-of-living adjustment) and shall not take account of remuneration received as of 31 December 1950 in the form of any other allowances;

Resol7.!cs that, subject to transition arrangements under which all eligible staff members as of 31 December 1950 will be allowed the next home leave to which they were entitled under the provisions in effect on that date, provisional staff regulation 18 be amended with effect from 1 January 1951 hy the addition of the following sentences:

• 0 See document A/1378.

21 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifth Srssion, Fifth Committee, Annexes, agenda item 39.

"Eligible staff members shall be granted home leave once in every two years. A staff member whose home country is the country of his official duty station or who continues to reside in his home country while performing his official duties shall not be eligible for home leave";

Rcsol7.!cs that provisional staff regulation 30 be amended with effect from 1 January 1951 to read as follows:

"Full-time members of the staff, with the exception of those specifically excluded by resolution of the General Assernbly, shall be entitled to a children's allowance of $US200 per annum in respect of each child under the age of eighteen years, or, if the child is in full-time attendance at a school or a university ( or similar educational institution) or is totally disabled, under the age of twenty-one years; provided that, if both parents are rnembers of the staff of the United Nations, only one allowance will be paid in respect of each of their children ; and provided

further that, where the Secretary-General deems it advisable, no allowance or an allowance of an amount other than $US200 may be paid under special circurnstances, as for exarnple, short-term assignments or assignments at duty stations where United Nations salarv scales are fixed at levels varying from the Headquarters scale"; and further that provisional staff regulation 33 be amended with effect from 1 January 1951 by substituting the words ''thirteen years of age" for the words "eleven years of age" in paragraph ( c) :

Resolves that the Provisional Staff Regulations be amended with effect from 1 January 1951 by the addition of a new regulation 35, as follows:

"The Secretary-General shall establish a scheme for the payment of repatriation grants in accordance with the maximum rates and conditions specified in a11nex I I to the present regulations."

15 Decnnber 1950.

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