The aims of United Nations Intercontinental Civil Servants' Federation is to advertise among its member personnel associations a coordinated approach on matters of popular curiosity and to bolster representation of its associates in negotiations with bodies with the United Nations typical process.
Promote greater knowing concerning the Administration in the United Nations Secretariat, UNDP, UNFPA, UNESCO, UNOPS, UNWOMEN, UNV and UNFSU, specifically in formulating and utilizing guidelines, tips, procedures and laws, impacting personnel.
Endorse cooperation with UN Prevalent System Employees Associations and Unions on matters governing problems of assistance with the United Nations and Specialized Agencies. These goals are pursued by means of discussions and negotiations Together with the Global Civil Assistance Fee as well as respective administration of the Members.
If everyone seems to be moving ahead together, then achievement normally takes care of itself.
HERE'S WHAT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Selected RETIREMENT Money, Advertising Prospective buyers And various Staff members Added benefits
We hope you experienced an excellent break. Over the last couple months staff members Reps from all Unions have already been Operating hard with users of the overall Assembly, in an effort to get the very best results for employees.
Make sure you obtain underneath a summary of what was attained as well as where by far more function are going to be essential.
-Increased retirement profits
The General Assembly approved the proposal to raise retirement earnings for P staff members by 4.four percent, bringing it closer into the proportion of final income obtained by G staff members for any amount of years worked. We begun working on this back again in January 2018, first throughout the ICSC after which you can from the Pension Board.
-Correcting the pension fund
The General Assembly passed a landmark resolution addressing a lot of the issues that we are already boosting with regards to how the Fund continues to be governed plus the Board has been behaving and representing your passions. This involves challenges associated with former payment backlog, conflicts of fascination and not enough integrity.
-Further Added benefits for staff in spouse and children E responsibility stations
We lifted The problem of workers in family members D and E duty stations who pick out to not deliver their families due to poor dwelling ailments and need to therefore buy the costs of the 2nd house in other places. The overall Assembly authorized a pilot profit for E obligation stations of $15,000 a 12 months. In time we hope this advantage will address far more places.
-Preserving UNISERV all personnel from retaliation and prohibited perform
In an effort to shield all staff and address harassment and poisonous workplaces, the General Assembly permitted proposals to provide all staff such as consultants and interns use of remedies from prohibited conduct.
-Safeguarding staff who testify with the tribunal and promoting accountability
Adhering to concerns that we are already boosting, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-Typical to address retaliation by supervisors versus employees who may possibly testify against them on the UN Dispute Tribunal or UN Appeals Tribunal. Also based upon our concerns, it asked UNISERV the Secretary-Standard to generally be much more certain on irrespective of whether he disciplines managers referred whom the tribunals have found to get abused the method.
-Boundaries to FS/GS team
Regardless of plenty of work on this subject advocating for FS/GS staff members to have the ability to freely utilize to P-1, P-two and P-three positions to which they are certified, the General Assembly decided to postpone consideration of this concern until finally the tip of this yr. Several considerations have been elevated by member states with regards to how this proposal would have an effect on geographical distribution, YPPs and JPOs. There exists for that reason far more operate to perform.
-Youngster allowance
In spite of a recommendation from the ICSC to increase , this wasn't permitted, we believe that, for Value causes.
-Stop of services grant
We pushed hard for an ex-gratia payment to generally be designed to prolonged-services staff whose preset-expression contracts usually are not renewed, using illustrations from governments and Worldwide organizations. Regardless of the help of the ICSC, this proposal wasn't accepted. In light of the, we will probably be turning our aim to ensuring the awarding of more 5-year fastened-phrase contracts for people qualified.