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B. Post adjustment matters
Recalling its request in section II.G of its resolution 48/224 of 23
December 1993, regarding place-to-place surveys conducted at headquarters duty
stations,
Taking note of the decisions reached by the International Civil Service
Commission in paragraphs 280, 294, 296 and 297 of its report in respect of the
operation of the post adjustment system,
1.
Welcomes the establishment by the International Civil Service
Commission of a working group to examine the post adjustment system;
2.
Requests the Commission to establish in 1996, in respect of staff
members whose duty station is Geneva, a single post adjustment index which is
fully representative of the cost of living of all staff working in the duty
station and which ensures equality of treatment with staff in other
headquarters duty stations;
3.
Also requests the Commission to address and refer to its working
group on post adjustment, as appropriate, the concerns raised by Member States
in the Fifth Committee regarding the operation of the post adjustment system,
including, inter alia, the issue of the post adjustment at the base of the
common system, management of the differential in net remuneration between the
common system and its comparator, developments in the comparator civil service
and the possible partial phasing out of the expatriate elements of the margin
for staff with long service at one duty station, and requests the Commission
to review all the issues relating to the post adjustment system based on the
study by its working group and to report thereon to the General Assembly at
its fifty-first session;
II
GENERAL SERVICE AND OTHER LOCALLY RECRUITED CATEGORIES
Recalling section III, paragraph 1, of its resolution 47/216 of 23
December 1992, in which it endorsed the reaffirmation by the International
Civil Service Commission of the Flemming principle as the basis for the
determination of conditions of service of the General Service and related
categories,
Recalling also section IV.A of its resolution 49/223 of 23 December
1994, by which it requested the Commission to proceed with the current round
of surveys at headquarters duty stations,
1.
Notes that the International Civil Service Commission will provide
a further report on the methodology for surveys of best prevailing local
conditions of employment at headquarters duty stations following the
completion of the comprehensive review of the salary survey methodology in
1997;
2.
Requests the Commission, as part of its review of the methodology
for salary setting for staff in the General Service and other locally
recruited categories, to resolve, to the extent possible, inconsistencies
between this methodology and the one which is applied pursuant to the
Noblemaire principle, inter alia, by examining the question of overlap in
remuneration between the two categories;
3.
Takes note of the results of the salary surveys in New York,
Geneva and Rome as reported in chapter IV of the report of the Commission; 1/
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