1.2 Attached for insertion in the printed copy of ST SGB 2002 1 are the new pages containing the amendments to the Staff Rules and the changes in the Staff Regulations and their annexes, and in the appendices to the Staff Rules.

CHANGE staff have contributed to three Council of Europe activities in the aftermath of the Conference.

In the case of the salaries of Professional staff, while base salaries are not affected by exchange rates, as they are denominated in United States dollars, the post adjustment component moves in response to changes in both the cost of living and exchange rates.

Changes to the pension adjustment system of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund

The staffing changes include

Hence the difficulties in the selection and assignment of the core personnel and its considerable turnover at all levels.

Changes in the pension adjustment system of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund

Session I Evolving roles and working methods

Evolving roles and working methods

We ask the Commission at its fourteenth session to take note of progress trade unions have made by taking action on their own to change industrial patterns.

The Committee needed to change not only its working methods, but also the way in which it approached its work.

Sadly, though, this movement and change is not necessarily matched by movement and change in our work.

The application of the weighted system on the current population of staff in posts subject to geographical distribution as at 31 December 2004 indicates variations when compared with the baseline for the non weighted variant (variant 0).

Overall changes in the levels of resources and staffing

Table 1 Changes in proposed staffing table

The net change of 123 posts is broken down as follows

The overall workload of the Commission will remain unchanged.

Managers are expected to improve their own ability to foster continuous change, promote innovation, and be responsible and accountable for the continuous professional development of their staff and themselves.

Any increase changes in the number of executive and professional staff shall be decided by the Council by special vote.

With regard to Professional staff costs, necessary adjustments are triggered by movements in post adjustment multipliers approved by the International Civil Service Commission.

(a) There is no major change in current level of threats and risks to United Nations personnel, facilities and activities

B. Changes in staffing by office

Staff mobility

At a time when organizations were being required to do more with less and staff were required to respond to evolving roles, these incentives assisted in creating more flexible, mobile and multi skilled staff.

Transition of local staff hire of fewer international contractual personnel.

Skill biased technological change, which has automated routine work while boosting demand for highly educated workers with at least a college degree.

It added employees and union representatives will be the first to know if there were any changes to its operations.

Except for within grade increments, they reflect only known changes that have occurred in the two years since the preparation of the last biennial support budget.

1. Reallocation of staff

The application of this variant will change the overall Member State representation in important ways (see table 3).

The application of this variant will cause considerable variations in geographical distribution for certain Member States and will cause the overall Member State representation to change in important ways.

(2) The number of staff in the Unit has remained the same for over 20 years.

The Committee believes that bold action is necessary to break this long standing impasse.

CHANGES OF PERSONNEL SINCE THE FIFTY SECOND SESSION OF THE

The representation status of Member States is affected by many factors, notably turnover of staff, changes in the scale of assessments and changes in the total number of Member States.

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Whenever new management techniques involved a change in the relevant staff or financial regulations or a change in appropriation lines, it was incumbent upon the Secretariat to bring the matter to the attention of the General Assembly for consideration and action.

Also there has been no change in area of activity or geographical distribution of the membership.

These will include pledges of voluntary contributions, other governmental or intergovernmental payments, donations from non governmental sources, and related interest earnings and miscellaneous income.

These changes resulted in a net increase of 802 person months without additional cost because of the lower cost of local staff.

However, it is also suggested that merely changing the institutional affiliation of the resident coordinator would not automatically lead to changes in the perception of bias and could, at worst, weaken the capacity of the resident coordinator to raise funds for the whole United Nations country team.

All changes are well identified, and payments are made on the basis of the progress of work on each item.

In alignment with changing job functions and responsibilities, net reclassifications of one P4 post to the P5 level and three general service to international professional level posts are being proposed.

The management attributed the changes in schedules to changes in priorities and demands, difficulty in reaching agreements with many least developed countries and movement of staff.

In paragraph 165, UNRWA agreed with the Board's recommendation to activate the auditing feature and to log the policy changes and account management events on the domain controller.