In several departments and duty stations, men still account for more than 60 per cent of the staff.

In this way, staff at all duty stations will have several months to familiarize themselves with the software.

In Kabul, a number of serious attacks against international workers have occurred in recent months.

Even registration exercises have given rise in recent months to conflictual situations, putting staff and other humanitarian workers' safety at risk and necessitating the evacuation of staff.

Further work required in this area over the next few months will continue to be performed by United Nations staff.

There are categories of employees to whom reduced working hours apply.

Staff often work on several documents, a single document could be assigned to more than one person, and priority work is given preference, thus interrupting other jobs.

The cost saving exercise resulted altogether in the freezing of 51 work months for professional and 16 work months for general service staff.

13. Several members emphasized the need to consider carefully the wider dissemination of the work of the Working Group and the Commission as a whole.

The actual arrangements varied and might include fewer hours per day, fewer days per week, or fewer months per year.

I shall now make some remarks on the work of the three committees.

It works for hours!

Only to get this far after all these months' work?

We haven't seen you in months.

I should find a remedy for that ... ..someone should go to the factory instead of me.

Forest operations and the forest industry provide employment and income to millions of workers and forest dwellers.

Nearly all the staff required for the division was recruited in 2004.

It works for hours.

In recent months, this has facilitated access to places of detention by COHCHR staff.

It was the understanding of the Committee that a number of staff were already on board and that their costs, currently borne by the United Nations, would be reimbursed from the Trust Fund.

Noting that the working group had evolved into more of an intersessional informal meeting of the Committee since its meetings were open to all members of the Committee, several members were of the view that it was perhaps not necessary to have a working group in the future.

Owing to the delay in the recruitment of staff, a number of advisory services could not be delivered as planned.

Provisions are also made for a staffing component of 1,704 (397 international and 1,307 local staff) an increase of 5 international posts and 71 local posts as described in paragraph 31 of the report of the Secretary General (A 52 786).

The working group concentrated its discussions on several themes focusing on the future of the working group.

Nearly everyone interviewed said they had work (architects, doctors, nurses, teachers, bookkeepers, administration members, six or seven policemen, shopkeepers, prosecutor, builders, workers at a water plant).

The proposal was for a total of 101 international staff, 233 national staff and 37 United Nations Volunteers.

United Nations staff did not represent individual Governments until recent years, they had not been targeted as a result of their affiliation with the United Nations.

35. An individual contractor performs functions similar to those of staff members but will not be considered as a staff member under the Staff Regulations of the United Nations.

On several occasions, closures prevented Agency trainees, teachers and other education staff from reaching their place of work or training.

A man or a woman at work. Some furrows in a plowed field.

13. The current staffing authorization for MINURSO provides for 167 posts consisting of 102 international and 65 local posts.

Procurement staff members generally have several years experience with a relatively high level of proficiency in the management of the day to day procurement activities.

Prolonged closures of and within the West Bank prevented staff from reaching their place of work and restricted access of patients to hospitals in Jerusalem.

Several entities identified the lack of awareness and expertise of staff as contributing to the gap between policy and practice.

Staff members came from 86 countries.

I counted six people working.

Other persons working in the same hospital were reportedly also arrested at the same time.

Upon inquiry, the Committee was informed that, as of 31 January 1998, of the 70 international staff posts authorized under the current budget, 60 were encumbered, and all 74 posts authorized at the local level were encumbered, while one additional local staff was being charged to an international post.

International staff (increase of three posts).

National staff (increase of one post).

On behalf of the Committee, the Chairman looks forward to the cooperation of all States as the Committee goes forward with its work in the coming months.

And I asked the manager to point out five of your fastest producers, and then I went and looked at each one of them for about 15 or 20 minutes, and picked this one woman.

Several paragraphs dealt with the Commission's working methods.

The new Chairperson of the Global Staff Association (GSA) said that he was the first head of the GSA who was a national staff member and worked in the field.

Several delegations said that it was important for the Task Force to work in close contact with senior officials of the Department in formulating its recommendations.