A/RES/64/231
B.
Conditions of service applicable to both categories of staff
1.
Separation payments
1.
Takes note of the recommendation of the Commission to introduce endof-service severance pay in the organizations of the common system for fixed-term
staff involuntarily separating from the Organization upon the expiration of their
contract after ten or more years of continuous service;
Decides to revert to the question of the proposed end-of-service severance
2.
pay at its sixty-fifth session;
3.
Takes note of the recommendation of the Commission for governing
bodies of the organizations of the common system to harmonize their termination
indemnity schedule with that of the United Nations, and requests the Commission to
review the application of the termination indemnity and to report thereon to the
General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session;
Reaffirms that the repatriation grant should not be payable to staff living
4.
in their home country and working abroad or to staff with permanent resident status
at the last duty station, and reiterates its call to the governing bodies of the
organizations of the common system to align their provisions regarding repatriation
grant eligibility with those applicable in the United Nations;
Reiterates that the death grant should not be payable to secondary
5.
dependants, and reiterates its call to the governing bodies of the organizations of the
common system to align their provisions regarding the death grant with those
applicable in the United Nations;
2.
Mandatory age of separation
1.
Notes paragraphs 17 and 20 of the report of the Commission,1 and
requests the Commission to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session
on the results of the comprehensive analysis of the possibility of changing the
mandatory age of separation, including the implications in the areas of human
resources policies and pensions;
3H
Requests the Commission to report to the General Assembly at its sixty2.
sixth session with advice and recommendations on succession planning within the
organizations of the common system;
C.
Other matters
1.
Senior Management Network
1.
Notes the decision of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board
for Coordination to discontinue work on the Senior Management Network;
2.
Requests the Commission to monitor the adequacy and effectiveness of
measures aimed at improving management capacity and performance within the
common system and to report to the General Assembly on these matters, as
appropriate;
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