The proposed increases in the staffing establishment of the Electoral Assistance Division would include 12 international and 3 national staff posts which are required immediately, as well as 4 temporary international and 12 national staff positions to be funded from the general temporary assistance for a six month period, as well as 21 temporary United Nations Volunteer positions, also for a six month period, for a total of 52 posts and temporary positions.

The new Act does not apply to temporary agency staff.

The additional resources of 2.5 million under general temporary assistance relate to the temporary recruitment of 17 additional international staff and 30 national personnel.

Provisional agenda and documentation for the ninth session of the Commission

(c) The continued allegations of widespread torture and ill treatment by the State's security forces and agencies, together with the apparent impunity enjoyed by its perpetrators

(d) The wide array of security forces and agencies in Uganda with the power to arrest, detain and investigate

The Committee adopted its provisional agenda (CMW C 3 1), as well as its programme of work.

The Rapporteur, the Committee or the Working Group may withdraw the request for interim measures.

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If the employer cannot temporarily offer the female worker an easier or another work, the employer must temporarily release the worker with the consent of the labour inspector.

The violent deaths of six UNRWA workers served as a tragic reminder of the dangers faced by the staff of that Agency.

It is of the opinion that additional national staff should also be provided for through general temporary assistance.

In addition, the budget reflects staffing requirements of 65 additional temporary positions, for 17 international and 30 national staff budgeted under general temporary assistance and 18 United Nations Volunteers.

(c) Decides that the open ended interim working group shall perform the following functions

d Temporary posts budgeted under general temporary assistance.

b Temporary posts budgeted under general temporary assistance.

The cost of these eight temporary posts would amount to 2,318,100, net of staff assessment.

Zagreb, 28 November 2 December

Provisional Programme of Work

The Advisory Committee notes from supplementary information provided to it that it is the intention to fund the 134 additional temporary international posts from general temporary assistance the 194 additional national staff are budgeted under national staff salaries.

The Office then temporarily filled the post with a staff member from Headquarters.

The 347 proposed temporary staff positions comprise 73 international staff and 274 national staff positions, inclusive of 15 national officers.

(f) Requests the secretariat to assist the open ended interim working group in the performance of its functions.

Instead, personnel were often assigned to that function on an ad hoc basis, with that role being assumed in addition to their existing responsibilities.

(2) The projections for the 2006 2007 biennium include the temporary posts (3 staff) currently available for the 2004 2005 biennium.

Action on the draft provisional programme of work for the Second Committee 2006 (A C.2 60 L.66)

A deployment consists in sending experienced employees for refugee protection to UNHCR operations with temporary staff protection needs.

The temporary staffing requirements included 65 additional temporary posts, 17 international and 30 national, which were budgeted under general temporary assistance, as well as 18 United Nations Volunteers.

While noting that the issuance of temporary work permits to employers of foreign workers rather than to the employees themselves serves to better oversee the situation of the labour market, and that copies of such permits indicating the expiry date are handed out to the employees, who may change jobs during the period covered by the permit, the Committee is concerned that this situation may lead to breaches of the labour rights of temporary foreign workers (art. 5, para. (e) (i)).

Staff members who were initially recruited against general temporary assistance funds are gradually being placed against established posts, wherever possible.

10.710 2003 re establishes the payment by enterprises of maternity salary due to insured employees and temporary workers.

The estimate is based on an average of 2 per cent of the national staff strength for temporary replacements for staff on sick leave and maternity leave and an average of 100 national personnel as a temporary labour force for the intensive period during the establishment of the Mission.

Interim procedures have been followed in regard to the competitive selection of staff under the 200 series, specifically as concerns the appointment of staff at the Local level.

Pending recruitment of the full Department of Safety and Security complement and in the light of the intense pace of ongoing operations, heavy additional commitments to recruitment interviews and continued interim responsibilities for policy, compliance, and training, the Division has been augmented with a number of temporary personnel without whom the Department as a whole would not have been able to function during the transition phase.

During pregnancy, an official shall be entitled, based on a certificate for sick leave prepared by a doctor, to temporary easement of her conditions of service or to a temporary transfer to another position, except a position to be filled by way of competition.

Moreover, the Committee points out that general temporary assistance does not fund established posts, whether permanent or temporary general temporary assistance is used to pay for positions and or short term requirements for additional personnel.

The Commission commended the Working Group for the progress accomplished so far regarding the issue of interim measures of protection.

5. Intensify the research on the revision of the Temporary Residence System for Investors, Managers and Technical Personnel with Special Qualifications.

Given the limited number of budgeted posts and the workload, general temporary assistance has also been provided to the Unit.

Deputy Registrar

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Of the requested 499 posts and temporary positions, a total of 452 posts and temporary positions would be deployed to the field.

Variances in the number of personnel, compared to the budget of 2004 05, including temporary staff for a six month period in support of elections funded under general temporary assistance, have been explained under the respective components.

The Mission had experienced high attrition rates and difficulties in attracting staff, and the recruitment of staff on temporary contracts, as recommended by the Advisory Committee, would only exacerbate that situation.

These amendments shall be provisional until the requirements of staff regulations 12.3 and 12.4 have been met.