United Nations Common System

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 141 United Nations common system, published in 2017.

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19 documents · 1992–2025

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5 subjects

International Civil Service Personnel Management Salaries and Allowances Separation From Service Working Conditions

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the work of the International Civil Service Commission;

Takes note of the report of the Commission for 2016;1

Reaffirms the role of the General Assembly in approving conditions of service and entitlements for all staff serving in the organizations of the United Nations common system, bearing in mind articles 10 and 11 of the statute of the Commission;²

²Resolution 3357 (XXIX), annex.

Recalls articles 10 and 11 of the statute of the Commission, and reaffirms the central role of the Commission in regulating and coordinating conditions of service and entitlements for all staff serving in the organizations of the United Nations common system;

I.Conditions of service applicable to both categories of staff

A.Framework for human resources management

Welcomes the work undertaken by the Commission regarding the revised human resources management framework;

Takes note of the conclusions and decisions of the Commission contained in paragraph 28 of its report;

B.Separation payments

Recalls the recommendation of the Commission on the establishment of end-of-service severance pay for staff serving under a fixed-term contract and separating from the Organization upon the expiration of that contract after 10 or more years of continuous service;

Regrets that no decision was taken on the issue of end-of-service severance pay for fixed-term staff during the sixty-fourth and sixty-fifth sessions of the General Assembly;

Recognizes that a decision must be taken, and ‎requests the Commission to undertake a comprehensive analysis, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, of the‎ effect of the adoption of the above-mentioned recommendation, including the updated financial implications and the distinctions between temporary, fixed-term and continuing contracts, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session in order for a decision to be taken on the recommendation and, as appropriate, the implementation date;

II.Conditions of service of staff in the Professional and higher categories

A.Base/floor salary scale

Recalling its resolution 44/198, by which it established a floor net salary level for staff in the Professional and higher categories by reference to the corresponding base net salary levels of officials in comparable positions serving at the base city of the comparator civil service (the United States federal civil service),

Recalling also its resolution 70/244, in which it approved a unified base/floor salary scale and decided that the scale should be updated to reflect any adjustments in base/floor salaries that might be approved before its implementation,

Approves, with effect from 1 January 2017, as recommended by the Commission in paragraph 122 of its report, the revised unified base/floor salary scale for staff in the Professional and higher categories, as contained in annex V to that report;

B.Evolution of the margin and margin management around the desirable midpoint

Recalling section I.B of its resolution 51/216 and the standing mandate from the General Assembly, in which the Commission is requested to continue its review of the relationship between the net remuneration of the United Nations staff in the Professional and higher categories in New York and that of the comparator civil service employees in comparable positions in Washington, D.C. (referred to as “the margin”),

Reaffirms that the range of 110 to 120 for the margin between the net remuneration of officials in the Professional and higher categories of the United Nations in New York and officials in comparable positions in the comparator civil service should continue to apply, on the understanding that the margin would be maintained at a level around the desirable midpoint of 115 over a period of time;

Notes that the margin between net remuneration of the United Nations staff in grades P-1 to D-2 in New York and that of officials in comparable positions in the United States federal civil service in Washington, D.C., for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2016 is 114.5;

Requests the Commission to include information on the margin, as well as on the development of the margin over time, in an annex to its annual reports;

Recalls its decision contained in resolution 70/244 that, if the margin trigger levels of 113 or 117 are breached, the Commission should take appropriate action through the operation of the post adjustment system;

Notes the decision of the Commission to continue monitoring the level of the margin and to take the necessary corrective action under the operation of the post adjustment system should the trigger levels of 113 or 117 be breached;

III.Other matters

A.General Service salary survey methodologies

Requests the Commission, during its next review of the General Service salary survey methodologies under the Flemming principle, to consider the possibility of further increases in the weight of the local national civil services among the retained employers, taking into account that the United Nations is a civil service organization, as well as past experiences of the Commission from the previous round of surveys;

B.Equitable geographical representation and the goal of 50/50 gender balance

Recalls paragraphs 54 and 55 of its resolution 70/244 and the decision of the Commission contained in paragraph 160 of its report, and in this regard requests the Commission to continue to provide information to the General Assembly, at its seventy-second session, on the progress made by organizations of the United Nations common system in the implementation of existing gender policies and measures towards achieving the goal of 50/50 gender balance and strengthening geographical diversity within the common system.