117th Session Agenda item 7.3
EB117.R10 27 January 2006
Confirmation of amendments to the Staff Rules The Executive Board CONFIRMS, in accordance with Staff Regulation 12.2, the amendments to the Staff Rules that have been made by the Director-General: (i) with effect from 1 January 2006 concerning the staff assessment scale, remuneration of staff in the professional and higher categories, classification review, definitions and staff in posts subject to local recruitment, education grant, special education grant for disabled children, repatriation grant, home leave, mobility and hardship allowance, assignment grant, recruitment policies, interorganization transfers, promotion, reassignment, leave without pay, sick leave under insurance cover, maternity and paternity leave, travel of staff members, travel of spouse and children, notification of charges and reply, reduction in grade, definition of dependants, and abolition of post; (ii) with effect from 1 April 2006 concerning within-grade increase with such amendments applying only to those staff members who have not yet reached the P6/D1 step IV level by 1 April 2006; and (iii) with effect from 1 April 2006 concerning the payment of expatriate benefits relating to education grant, repatriation grant and home leave, with such amendments applying to any individual who is either appointed or promoted as an internationally recruited professional staff member on or after that date; staff members who, as at 1 January 2006, are on posts of indefinite duration but have less than five years of continuous and uninterrupted service on a fixed-term appointment will maintain the right to reassignment so long as they remain assigned to such a post.
Tenth meeting, 27 January 2006 EB117/SR/10
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