Session Report

Report of  6th Session (July 2003, New York)

Framework for Human Resources Management; Review of the pay and benefits system: Pay for performance and broad banding/pilot study; Validation and promulgation of the revised master standard; Qualitative and quantitative information on performance management in the common system; Contractual arrangements; Mobility; Linkage between the mobility and hardship allowance and base/floor salary scale; Evolution of the United Nations/United States net remuneration margin; Review of the methodology for surveys of best prevailing conditions of employment at headquarters duty stations; Review of the methodology for surveys of best prevailing conditions of employment at non-headquarters duty stations; Hazard pay for locally recruited staff; Mission subsistence allowance/special operations approach; Senior Management Service; Greater commonality in health insurance arrangements; Health risk situations: administrative and medical response; FICSA submissions: (i) Domestic Partnership; (ii) Field Issues; (iii) Dependency Status; Organizational Learning Framework; Follow-up to previous decisions taken at the inter-agency level; Coordination with UNDG.