United Nations common system: report of the International Civil Service Commission
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to monitor progress in achieving gender balance and to report thereon in compliance
with the decision contained in paragraph 137 of the report of the Commission;
B.
Diversity in the United Nations common system
Welcomes the decision of the Commission contained in paragraph 149 of its
report, requests the Commission to continue to recommend measures that would be
more favourable to diversity, and encourages the Commission to continue its
periodic reviews and reports on all diversity-related issues in the common system;
C.
Base/floor salary scale
Recalling its resolution 44/198, by which it established a floor net salary level
for staff in the Professional and higher categories by reference to the corresponding
base net salary levels of officials in comparable positions serving at the base city of
the comparator civil service (the United States federal civil service),
Approves, with effect from 1 January 2015, as recommended by the
Commission in paragraph 157 of its report, the revised base/floor scale of gross and
net salaries for staff in the Professional and higher categories, as contained in
annex III to the report;
D.
Evolution of the margin and margin management around the
desirable midpoint
Recalling section I.B of its resolution 51/216 and the standing mandate from
the General Assembly, in which the Commission is requested to continue its review
of the relationship between the net remuneration of the United Nations staff in the
Professional and higher categories in New York and that of the comparator civil
service employees in comparable positions in Washington, D.C. (referred to as “the
margin”),
1.
Reaffirms that the range of 110 to 120 for the margin between the net
remuneration of officials in the Professional and higher categories of the United
Nations in New York and officials in comparable positions in the comparator civil
service should continue to apply, on the understanding that the margin would be
maintained at a level around the desirable midpoint of 115 over a period of time;
2.
Notes that the estimated margin between net remuneration of the United
Nations staff in grades P-1 to D-2 in New York and that of officials in comparable
positions in the United States federal civil service in Washington, D.C., for the
period from 1 January to 31 December 2014 is 117.4 and that its five-year average
(2010–2014) stands at 116.4, which is above the desirable midpoint of 115;
3.
Recalls section II.B, paragraph 5, of its resolution 68/253, and requests
the Commission to continue action to bring the calendar year margin to around the
desirable midpoint, without prejudice to any future decision of the General
Assembly;
4.
Requests the Commission to further examine issues relating to margin
management in the context of its ongoing comprehensive review of compensation;
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