Session Report

Report of 11th Session (March 2006, Vienna)

Accountability and transparency; Safety and security of staff; United Nations System Staff College; Gender mainstreaming ; Joint session of HLCP and HLCM; Review of the pay and benefits system: Standing of field missions: review of conversion of contractual instruments; Conditions of service of the Professional and higher categories: Children’s and secondary dependant’s allowances: review of the levels; Survey of best prevailing conditions of employment in Rome and New York; Job Evaluation Standards for General Service and related categories; Common scale of staff assessment for locally recruited staff; Total compensation comparisons under the Noblemaire principle to determine the highest paid civil service: (a) Results of the United Nations/United States grade equivalency studies (SES); (b) Total compensation comparison – Stage II (Belgium); (c) Reference check with World Bank and Organizations for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); Progress report on the development of a Senior Management Network; Administrative guidelines for an influenza pandemic; Handover of local salary surveys from UNDP to UN; Preparations for monitoring the level of the Education Grant; Task Force on HIV/AIDS in the UN System workplace: 2006 plan; Update on HR Reform in the UN (UN); Staff Management relations (FICSA/CCISUA); Implementation of Paternity Leave; Update on negotiations with AIIC; Inter-Agency Framework for Rest and Recuperation; Working Group on Long Term Care and Appendix D; Special HR Network Presentation: Integrating People & Technology .