As you may know, the fall session of the 67th General Assembly came to a close on 24 December 2012 and we wish to share with you the key outcomes: The post adjustment freeze in New York, dating back to August 2012, will be lifted as of February 2013. Importantly, this means that post adjustment…
Vote on 13 and 14 December for the pension fund board
Vote on 13 and 14 December for four staff representatives and two alternates to the board of the pension fund. We encourage all staff who are members of the pension fund to vote by following this link. For staff in Geneva, the Council believes that key issues that the pension fund board will need to address include:…
Children’s Christmas party, Wednesday 12 December 2012
The UNOG Staff Coordinating Council is pleased to organize for its staff member’s children, the traditional children’s Christmas party, which will take place on Wednesday 12 December from 1.30pm to 5.30pm. Français en bas de page Children: Children between the ages of 4 and 8 on the day of the show are welcome. They will be…
Council questions OCHA decision to offshore jobs – against main recommendation of management study
As you may know, OCHA management has decided unilaterally to offshore administrative support posts from Geneva and New York to a third location. This decision will have an impact on staff in Geneva and New York, especially general service colleagues who cannot move with their posts. It is disappointing that OCHA management used the report (available…
Insecurity in Geneva | Insécurité à Genève
At its meeting on 27 September, the Council will be discussing the issue of insecurity in Geneva. This follows requests from several staff members. For memory, you will recall that last autumn the Council organized a townhall on this issue at which the Chief of Security of UNOG explained the challenges posed by cross-border crime…
Speak Up! Meeting to decide on a creche – Monday 3 September at 2.30 p.m.
We are pleased to share with you a business plan for an 88-child crèche at the UN (full document in French, brief in English). The plan was prepared for the Council by a local consulting firm and is itself based on earlier study that the Council undertook at the start of this year. Using costs…
Speak up! Staff townhall on general service mobility – Thursday 19 July 2.30 p.m.
Having concluded the first design phase of career development and mobility framework by negotiating the framework for internationally recruited staff, we would now like to start work on the second phase: career development and mobility of locally recruited staff (staff in the General Service category) in Geneva, a topic on which many of you have…
Speak up! Staff townhall on the outcome of mobility negotiations – Thursday 5 July 2 p.m.
As we informed you earlier this month, negotiations took place from 13 to 23 June between staff and management, principally on the long-running issue of a staff mobility policy. In order to inform you of the outcome, which is based substantially on the staff counter-proposal shared with you on 7 June for comments, which was…
Proposal for mobility of locally-recruited staff
We are pleased to share with you a proposal on voluntary mobility for locally-recruited (i.e. GS) staff. The proposal will be discussed at the upcoming staff-management SMC negotiations taking place in Arusha from 13 to 23 June. The aim of this paper is to re-examine career development opportunities for GS personnel.
Counter-proposal of staff on mobility
We are pleased to share with you the counter-proposal of staff on the subject of mobility. It has been approved by every staff union in the UN system and also reflects the outcome of a townhall we organized on the subject in early April and the results of the survey held in January. However, further…