Reports of the Programme, Financial and Administrative Committee Second report: Personnel questions

Record of decisions | 14 April 2009

Second report: Personnel questions

I. Statement by the Staff Union representative
(Tenth item on the agenda)

II. Human Resources Strategy: Annual report
(13th item on the agenda)

The Governing Body took note of these parts of the report.

(Document GB.303/11/2, paragraphs 1 to 29.)

III. Amendments to the Staff Regulations
(11th item on the agenda)

The Governing Body approved the amendments to the Staff Regulations concerning performance management, as set out in the appendix to document GB.303/PFA/11, and concerning adoption leave, as set out in paragraph 6 of the paper.

(Document GB.303/11/2, paragraph 35.)

IV. Report of the International Civil Service Commission
(14th item on the agenda)

The Governing Body:

(a) accepted the recommendations of the ICSC, subject to their approval by the United Nations General Assembly, on the following entitlements:

(i) an increase of 2.33 per cent in the base/floor salary;

(ii) consequential increases in separation payments, for staff in the Professional and higher categories;

(iii) revised levels of the children’s and secondary dependants’ allowances, with the accompanying transitional measures as required;

(iv) an increase of 5 per cent in the mobility, hardship and non-removal allowances;

(b) authorized the Director-General to give effect in the ILO, through amendments to the Staff Regulations (as necessary), to the measures referred to in subparagraph (a), subject to their approval by the General Assembly.

V. Matters relating to the Administrative
Tribunal of the ILO
(Fifteenth item on the agenda)

(a) Statute of the Tribunal

The Governing Body took note of this part of the report.

(Document GB.303/11/2, paragraphs 41 to 44.)

(b) Recognition of the Tribunal’s jurisdiction by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

The Governing Body approved the recognition of the Tribunal’s jurisdiction by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, with immediate effect.

(Document GB.303/11/2, paragraph 48.)

(c) Recognition of the Tribunal’s jurisdiction by the ITER International Fusion Energy Organization (ITER Organization)

The Governing Body approved the recognition of the Tribunal’s jurisdiction by the ITER International Fusion Energy Organization (ITER Organization), with immediate effect.

(Document GB.303/11/2, paragraph 53.)