The goals of United Nations International Civil Servants' Federation is to promote amid its member staff members associations a coordinated solution on matters of typical curiosity and to strengthen representation of its customers in negotiations with bodies with the United Nations popular system.
Promote much better knowing amongst the Administration on the United Nations Secretariat, UNDP, UNFPA, UNESCO, UNOPS, UNWOMEN, UNV and UNFSU, particularly in formulating and applying procedures, pointers, regulations and polices, influencing staff members.
Endorse cooperation with UN Popular Procedure Team Associations and Unions on issues governing ailments of assistance Along with the United Nations and Specialised Companies. These goals are pursued via discussions and negotiations with the Intercontinental Civil Assistance Fee as well as the respective administration in the Members.
If everyone seems to be going ahead collectively, then achievement takes treatment of by itself.
HERE'S WHAT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Selected RETIREMENT Revenue, PROMOTION PROSPECTS And various Staff members Positive aspects
We hope you had a very good split. During the last couple months staff members representatives from all Unions have been Performing tough with members of the overall Assembly, to be able to attain the top outcomes for workers.
Make sure you obtain under a summary of what was achieved together with exactly where extra perform are going to be essential.
-Increased retirement cash flow
The General Assembly accredited the proposal to increase retirement cash flow for P staff by 4.four percent, bringing it nearer into the proportion of final income received by G personnel for virtually any quantity of yrs worked. We started out engaged on this back in January 2018, 1st in the ICSC and after that from the Pension Board.
-Correcting the pension fund
The General Assembly passed a landmark resolution addressing lots of the concerns that we have already been increasing with regards to how the Fund has been governed along with the Board has long been behaving and representing your interests. This contains difficulties related to former payment backlog, conflicts of curiosity and deficiency of integrity.
-More Gains for staff in family members E obligation stations
We elevated The difficulty of team in relatives D and E duty stations who pick out to not convey their households because of the very poor living problems and must for that reason pay for the costs of the second property in other places. The overall Assembly authorised a pilot advantage for E responsibility stations of $15,000 a yr. In time we hope this profit will include additional locations.
-Safeguarding all staff from retaliation and prohibited conduct
As a way to secure all personnel and deal with harassment and harmful workplaces, the final Assembly authorized proposals to offer all staff including consultants and interns entry to solutions versus prohibited conduct.
-Defending staff members who testify at the tribunal and marketing accountability
Pursuing concerns that we happen to be elevating, the overall Assembly requested the Secretary-Normal to deal with retaliation by managers towards workers who may possibly testify from them within the UN Dispute Tribunal or UN Appeals Tribunal. Also based on our concerns, it asked the Secretary-Common to become a lot more certain on UNISERV no matter whether he disciplines supervisors referred whom the tribunals have discovered to own abused the method.
-Limitations to FS/GS personnel
Even with plenty of work on this make a difference advocating for FS/GS employees to be able to freely utilize to P-one, P-2 and P-3 positions to which they are qualified, the final Assembly chose to postpone thought of this issue right until the tip of this year. A number of fears ended up elevated by member states with regards to how this proposal would have an effect on geographical distribution, YPPs and JPOs. There's therefore additional operate to complete.
-Child allowance
Irrespective of a suggestion of the ICSC to enhance , this wasn't authorized, we consider, for Value factors.
-Close of support grant
We pushed hard for an ex-gratia payment being created to long-provider employees whose fastened-term contracts are certainly not renewed, utilizing illustrations from governments and international businesses. Regardless of the help of your ICSC, this proposal was not permitted. In light of this, we are going to be turning our target to making sure the awarding of more five-12 months fixed-phrase contracts for people eligible.