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  International Civil Service Commission
Decisions and Recommendations
       
Table of Contents  
Chapter     Subject
1 PROCEDURAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS  
Section 1.10 The constitutional background  
1.20 Statute and rules of procedure  
1.30 Functioning and working methods of the Commission  
1.40 Programme of work  
1.50 Budgetary and administrative arrangements  
1.60 Personnel arrangements  

2 SALARIES  
2.1
PROFESSIONAL AND HIGHER CATEGORIES  
Section 2.1.10 The Noblemaire principle  
2.1.20 Highest paid civil service  
2.1.30 Grade equivalencies  
2.1.40 Margin between United States Federal Civil Service and the United Nations  
2.1.50 Total compensation  
2.1.60 Salary scales  
2.1.70 Post adjustment  
2.1.71 Advisory Committee on Post Adjustment Questions (ACPAQ)  
2.1.72 Rental subsidy  
2.1.80 Staff assessment  
2.1.90 Comprehensive review of the conditions of service of the Professional and higher categories  
2.1.100 Supplementary payments and deductions  
2.1.110 National Professional Officers and extended General Service levels  
2.1.120 Conditions of service of Assistant Secretary-General, Under Secretary-General and equivalent levels  
2.1.130 Remuneration structure  
2.1.140 Other salary matters  

2.2 GENERAL SERVICE AND RELATED CATEGORIES  
Section 2.2.10 Methodology for determining best prevailing conditions of service  
2.2.20 Surveys of best prevailing conditions  
2.2.30 Staff assessment  
2.2.40 Overtime and night differential  

2.3 BOTH CATEGORIES  
Section 2.3.10 Structure of categories and grades  
2.3.20 Long service steps  

2.4 FIELD SERVICE CATEGORY  
Section 2.4.10 Field Service category  

3 ALLOWANCES  
Section 3.10 General  
3.20 Dependency allowances (Professional and higher categories)  
3.30 Dependency allowances (General Service and related categories)  
3.40 Assignment allowance [discontinued as of July 1990]  
3.50 Non-resident's allowance and rental subsidy (General Service staff)  
3.60 Language incentive (Professional and higher categories)  
3.70 Language allowance (General Service)  
3.80 Mobility and hardship allowance  
3.90 Assignment grant  

4 OTHER ENTITLEMENTS AND BENEFITS  
Section 4.10 Education grant  
4.20 Special education grant  
4.30 Travel, removal and shipment entitlements  
4.40 Installation grant [discontinued as of 1 July 1990]  
4.50 Annual leave  
4.60 Home leave  
4.70 Separation payments  
4.71 Repatriation grant  
4.72 Termination indemnity and end-of-service grant  
4.73 Death grant  
4.80 Mission subsistence allowance  
4.90 Paternity leave  

5 PENSIONS  
Section 5.10 Pensionable remuneration  
5.20 Special index for pensioners  
5.30 Retirement age (mandatory)  
5.40 Other pension matters  
5.50 Pensionable remuneration (ungraded officials)  

6 SOCIAL SECURITY  
Section 6.10 Health and life insurance  

7 CONDITIONS OF SERVICE IN THE FIELD  
Section 7.10 General review of conditions of service in the field  
7.20 Classification of duty stations according to conditions of lifeand work  
7.30 Pre-departure expenses  
7.40 Hazardous duty stations  
7.50 General Service staff at field duty stations  

8 JOB CLASSIFICATION  
8.1 GENERAL ISSUES  
Section 8.1.10 Definitions of Professional level and General Service work  
8.1.20 Common Classification of Occupational Groups  
8.1.30 Job classification and career development  
8.1.40 Divergent grading patterns  
8.1.50 Other classification issues  
8.1.60 Linked grades  

8.2 PROFESSIONAL AND HIGHER CATEGORIES  
Section 8.2.10 Master Standard (Tier I)  
8.2.20 Tier II Standards  
8.2.30 Tier III Standards  
8.2.40 Project posts  

8.3 GENERAL SERVICE AND RELATED CATEGORIES  
Section 8.3.10 General principles  
8.3.20 Classification standards for New York  
8.3.30 Classification standards for Vienna  
8.3.40 Classification standards for Geneva  
8.3.50 Classification standards for Addis Ababa  
8.3.60 Global classification standards for non-headquarters duty stations  
8.3.70 Classification standards for Baghdad and Santiago  

8.4 OTHER CATEGORIES  
Section 8.4.10 Field Service category  

9 OTHER PERSONNEL POLICIES  
Section 9.10 Standards of recruitment  
9.20 Special measures for the recruitment of women  
9.30 Equitable geographical distribution  
9.40 Competitive examinations and alternative selection
procedures
 
9.50 Career development and promotion policy  
9.60 Training and development  
9.70 Performance appraisal and recognition of merit  
9.80 Mobility of staff  
9.90 Contractual arrangements (types of appointments)  
9.100 Human resources planning  
9.110 Inter-organization Agreement concerning transfer, secondment or loan of staff among the organizations
applying the United Nations common system of salaries and allowances
 
9.120 Rewiew of the Pay and Benefits System  

10 COMMON STAFF REGULATIONS  
Section 10.10 Harmonization of staff regulations  

11 STAFF/MANAGEMENT RELATIONS  
Section 11.10 Administration of justice  

12 REPORTING AND MONITORING FUNCTION  
Section 12.10 Implementation of the Commission's recommendations and decisions  

13 OTHER ISSUES  
Section 13.10 Standards of conduct of the international civil service  
13.20 Recommendations of the group of high-level inter-governmental experts to review the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations ("Group of 18")  
13.30 Security and independence of the international civil service  
13.40 Reports of Board of Auditors  


 
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