1. P & G staff: Differences and Rules
Introduction Générale

2. Topics Definitions and good intentions Classification of Jobs
Working and Employment Conditions
Union demands

3. Definitions and Good Intentions
Art.0.1 of the Staff regulations:
The Staff Regulations (…) regulate the conditions of employment and set forth the duties and rights
of the officials of the International Labour Office. 
Kofi Annan, September 2002 :
Action 28. Effective 1 January 2003, all employees of the United Nations Secretariat will be referred to as international civil servants.
Juan Somavia, May 2003 : Whether we are G-staff, P-staff or national professional officers, we are part of one single entity and one single Organization. I remember the Secretary-General saying something of that order a couple of years ago, and maybe we can think about starting to see all staff as international civil servants performing different functions in the same international institution. And we should not discriminate on the basis of distinctions between field and headquarters.

4. Classification of Jobs
  Article 2.2 of the Staff Regulations:
Jobs shall be classified in categories and grades, in accordance with the duties and responsibilities attaching to them, as follows:
 (1) DG, DDG, ADG, TFC
 (2) Director & Principal Officer category – D2 & D1
 (3) Professional category – P1 to P5
 (4) NEW – OCTOBER 2001 (GB MARCH 2001)
National Professional Officers category – NO A to NO D
 (5) « General Service category, comprising all other grades »

5. Geographical distribution
Local Recruitment: Tougher than ever …
Art.4.3. : (a) The appointment of staff on a wide geographical basis
SHALL NOT be a consideration in the appointment of officials
to the General Service category
Jobs in this category shall AS FAR AS POSSIBLE be filled by
locally recruited officials.
(b)Officials of the GS category (…) shall not NORMALLY be transferred
No such transfer shall take place
without the official’s consent
MEANS:
STILL POSSIBLE

6. NATIONAL OFFICERS MEANS: "Abandon all hope ye who enter here"
That Obscure Object of Desire …
Art.4.3. bis: (a) Jobs in this category SHALL BE filled by locally recruited officials.
(b)Officials of the National Professional Officers category (…)
SHALL NOT be transferred to other duty stations.
MEANS: "Abandon all hope ye who enter here"

7. Employment & Working Conditions
Strong ICSC influence
Obvious differences in contract types
because of different recruitment procedures (Field)
Salaries adjusted for P, less so for G
Hardship is not recognized for GS
Social security: SHIF not always, MEC usually not
Family benefits: local conditions
Pensions: better grossing up, but no dollar protection for PR and non-pensionable part

8. Conditions (II) Education allowances: NONE
Overtime compensation & language allowances – less and less
More than limited prospects of mobility
(Field, but also HQ)
Education allowances: NONE
Unequal public and peers’ recognition
Doubts concerning merit increments
Longer waiting period for titularization

9. Union Demands Continuity in Grade Structure :
For career prospects, to avoid part of discrimination
Access to education grant:
At least in country of work
Mobility:
Remove artificial obstacles
Security:
At parity for evacuation, work out proper insurance mechanisms (P staff: Hardship)

10. International Civil Servants !
we all are
International Civil Servants !
Thank you for your attention.