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Is your department downsizing? Is your department restructuring or going through a change initiative? Do you feel your rights as a staff member have been infringed? Then please join us for a meeting on this topic, this Thursday, 12 January 2017, from 1.30 to 2.30 p.m. in Room XXII.  Mr. Robbie Leighton, lawyer at the…

The United Nations Music Club offers all UN staff members the opportunity to be introduced to Afro-Caribbean percussion. A new twelve week initiation course will start every Monday from 9 January to 27 March 2017 and another every Friday from 13 January to 31 March 2017 . Applicants can select the Monday or Friday classes…

António Guterres’ first meeting as Secretary-General, within an hour of entering the UN building, was with the staff unions. At the meeting, staff raised the following issues: simplify mobility to more quickly recruit and deploy staff and make it more staff-friendly; make performance management work; better protect whistleblowers; protect staff in the Global Service Delivery…

We are pleased to inform you that the General Assembly has listened to your concerns and is taking formal action to address the problems at the UN pension fund. In its draft resolution, to be formally adopted this week, the General Assembly:  Rejects new financial rules proposed by the fund’s board. We had argued that the…

The Choir of the United Nations Music Club, together with an invited chamber music group, have the pleasure to invite you to a lunch time Christmas concert, to be held this Tuesday 20 December 2016, at 12.30 p.m. in the Salle des Pas Perdus. Everyone is most welcome to attend the concert and sing the…

Many of you have contacted us to express your deep concern and outrage over the suffering of the people of Syria. To this end, we wish to invite you to observe a minute of silence for all victims of the Syrian conflict, including 46 of our own UN colleagues who have been killed, injured or…

As you know, the General Assembly approved in its December 2015 resolution A/70/244 a revised compensation package for staff members in the P category and above, on the basis of recommendations from the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC). These changes have an impact on several allowances, including the education grant where the system is now…

As you may be aware, the official holidays in 2017 now include floating holidays (see calendar). Under this system which, reflects a pilot in New York that was popular with staff there, staff retain the right to ten official holidays a year (in addition to 30 days of annual leave). Nine of the ten official holidays…

Last week we shared with you a survey on private/international schools and how the new education grant might impact you. Following a number of queries on the details of the education grant and its impact, which varies significantly depending on circumstances, we invite you to a townhall this Thursday 8 December at 1.30 p.m. in Room XXV….