Amendments to the Staff Regulations and Rules

A/RES/70/256View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

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

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2016–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/78/275

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/78/275	Amendments to the Staff Regulations and Rules	505	10%Compare
2016	A/RES/70/256	Amendments to the Staff Regulations and Rules	371	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

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

What’s in this document?

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.