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M2 PRESSWIRE-29 October 2004-UN: Budget committee begins debate on human resources management reform: staff compensation, recruitment, geographical representation, among issues; page 4 of 4(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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Introduction of Further Reports

EUGENIUSZ WYZNER (Poland), Vice-Chairman of the ICSC, introduced the report of that body on behalf of its Chairman.

He said that when the Commission had embarked on its review of the pay and benefits system, it was well aware that, if implemented, the pay for performance and broad-banding would be the most significant change to the remuneration system since the Organization was established. The study of the new approaches through a pilot study would be rigorous and would clearly need to be successful before the ICSC could proceed with the implementation across the common system. On 1 July, the pilot had been launched in four volunteer organizations - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and World Food Programme (WFP).

For the next three years, the new approaches would be closely monitored and supported by the Commission and its secretariat.

The Commission had also begun its review of the methodology to determine the level of the education grant and the mobility and hardship allowance, he continued. The ICSC would continue its consideration of that issue in the spring of 2005 and planned to present its final recommendations to the Assembly in its next report.

The Commission had also spent some time on the issue of the base/floor salary scale and the mobility and hardship allowance, concluding that one of the scheme's major objectives was to be able to get the right person in the right place at the right time. The intention of the Commission in the review was not to seek a reduction of benefits for staff, but to see how best to support the Charter of the organizations through its appropriate application. After extensive debate, the Commission had decided to separate the mobility element from the hardship element and de-link related allowances from the base/floor salary scale. However, to respond to the concerns of the organizations and staff, it had agreed to establish a working group comprising Commission members, representatives from the ICSC secretariat, organizations and staff, to develop various options for compensating staff for service at hardship duty stations and encouraging mobility. The group was also expected to estimate the cost of those options and submit its recommendations to the...

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