HR Handbook by Index
A
- Abandonment of post
- Abolition of posts and reduction of staff
- Abuse of authority
- Academic degrees
- Accelerated home leave
- Acceptance of pro bono goods and services
- Accident
- Accommodation
- Accumulated leave
- Acquired rights
- Administration of Justice
- Administration of the Staff Regulations and Staff Rules
- Administrative Issuances
- Adoption
- Adverse material
- Advisory Board on Compensation Claims (ABCC)
- Advisory meetings, participants in
- After service health insurance (ASHI)
- Age of retirement
- Agreed termination
- Alcohol/substance abuse
- Amendment of Staff Rules
- Annual leave
- Appeal of classification decisions
- Appendix to the Staff Rules
- Applicability of Staff Rules
- Applications for lawful permanent resident status in the United States of America
- Arrest or detention of staff members
- Assignment (for less than one year)
- Attendance and leave
- Authentic text of rules
- Authority of security officers
- Automobile
C
- Career development
- Cars
- Central Examination Board (CEB)
- Central Review Bodies (CRB)
- Central Review Board
- Central Review Committee
- Central Review Panels
- Certified sick leave
- Change of official duty station
- Charter of the United Nations, Article 101
- Charter of the United Nations, Article 97
- Claims Board
- Classification Appeals Committee
- Classification of duty stations
- Classification of posts and staff
- Classification standards
- Classification/Reclassification of a post
- Committees
- Communications and contacts with host country authorities
- Compensation Commission, Records of the United Nations
- Compensation for loss of and damage of personal effects
- Competencies
- Competitive examinations
- Computer equipment
- Conduct of officials other than Secretariat officials, and experts on mission
- Conduct of staff members
- Conflict of interest
- Consultants
- Consultants and individual contractors
- Continuing appointment
- Conversion of appointment of staff at the FS-6 and FS-7 levels to the Professional category
- Core values
- Currency of payments
D
- Daily subsistence allowance (DSA)
- Daily subsistence allowance (DSA), Rates for officials other than staff members
- Daily subsistence allowance (DSA), Reduction of DSA rates
- Daily subsistence allowance (DSA), Special rates established by ICSC
- Daily subsistence allowance (DSA), Special rates established by the SG
- Damage to personal effects
- Danger pay
- Date of birth
- Death benefit
- Death in service
- Death of family member
- Death-related emergency
- Declaration (Oath of office)
- Deductions and contributions
- Deductions for government grants
- Deferment of salary increment
- Delegation of Authority
- Demotion
- Dental insurance
- Department of Disarmament Affairs
- Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- Department of Field Support
- Department of General Assembly and Conference Management
- Department of Management
- Department of Peacekeeping Operations
- Department of Political Affairs
- Department of Public Information
- Department of Safety and Security
- Departmental focal points for women in the Secretariat
- Dependency allowance
- Dependency benefits
- Dependency status
- Dependent child
- Dependent spouse
- Dependent spouse (Adjusted dependency benefit with respect to a spouse)
- Designated duty stations
- Designated duty stations, additional education grant travel
- Designated duty stations, additional reimbursement for boarding costs
- Designated duty stations, additional unaccompanied shipment
- Designated duty stations, reimbursement for cost of basic medical examinations
- Designated duty stations, transportation of privately owned automobiles
- Designation of staff members performing significant functions in the management of financial, human and physical resources
- Detention
- Diplomatic pouch
- Disability
- Disabled child, dependency status
- Disabled child, special provisions for
- Disciplinary measures
- Discrimination as specific instance of prohibited conduct
- Dismissal
- Due process
- Duties of staff members and specific duties of managers, supervisors and heads of department/office/mission
E
- Early release of staff members
- Early retirement
- Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
- Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
- Economic Commission for Africa
- Economic Commission for Europe
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Education grant
- Education grant travel
- Effective date of appointment
- Effective date of rules
- Electronic HR handbook
- Electronic records
- Eligibility for subsidy to contributions to Medicare
- Employee assistance in cases of alcohol/substance abuse
- Employee records
- Employment of family members
- Employment of household employees
- Employment of retirees
- Equal treatment of men and women
- Ethics Office
- Ethics Panel of the United Nations
- Evacuation of United Nations personnel
- Exception to the Staff Rules
- Excess baggage
- Executive Office of the Secretary-General
- Exhibits Committee
- Exhibits in publicly accessible areas at Headquarters in New York
- Experts on mission
- Expiration of fixed-term appointment
F
G
H
I
J
L
M
- Malicious acts insurance policy (payment of insurance proceeds)
- Managed mobility
- Managed reassignment
- Management Evaluation Unit
- Management Performance Board
- Management/Policy Committee
- Managers and other staff with supervisory responsibilities required to demonstrate gender responsiveness
- Material and package passes
- Maternity leave
- Medal, UN Dag Hammarskjold
- Medical and dental insurance
- Medical Board
- Medical certificate or report
- Medical classification
- Medical evacuation
- Medical examination (incl. at designated duty stations)
- Medical insurance plan (MIP)
- Medical standards and clearances
- Membership in political parties and political activities
- Membership of the New York General Service Classification Appeals Committee
- Mental health
- Military service
- Miscellaneous travel expenses
- Misconduct
- Mission subsistence allowance (MSA)
- Mobile communication devices for official work
- Mobility and hardship allowance
- Mobility incentive
- Modalities of payment
- Motor vehicle infractions
- Movement to the Professional category
- Multilingualism
N
O
- Obligations of staff members
- Office for Disarmament Affairs
- Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- Office of Information and Communication Technology
- Office of Internal Oversight Services
- Office of Legal Affairs
- Office of Staff Legal Assistance
- Office of the Special Adviser on Africa
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Official cars, use of
- Official documents and publications
- Official holidays
- Official hospitality
- Official records, responsibilities of departments and offices
- Official records, responsibilities of staff
- Official status files
- Official travel of family members
- Official travel of staff members
- Ombudsman
- Ombudsman (Appointment and terms of reference of the Ombudsman)
- Ombudsman and Mediation Services
- Organization and terms of reference of the Office of Administration of Justice
- Organization of the Secretariat
- Organization of the United Nations Office for Partnerships
- Organization of the United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States
- Organization of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- Outside activities
- Outside activities (travel and per diem)
- Outside employment and activities, including political activities
- Outsourcing and impact on staff
- Overtime compensation
P
- Parental leave
- Part-time employment
- Participants in advisory meetings
- Paternity leave
- Payment of income taxes
- Payment of insurance proceeds under the malicious acts insurance policy
- Pension fund
- Pensionable remuneration
- Performance Management and Development System
- Permanent appointment
- Permanent residence status
- Personal (household) employees
- Personal data
- Personal effects and household goods
- Personal identification cards
- Personal status for purposes of United Nations entitlements
- Personal transitional allowance (PTA)
- Personnel arrangements for OIOS
- Personnel arrangements for the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP)
- Personnel files
- Personnel payroll clearance
- Petitions for special immigrant classification, filing of
- Placement against higher-level posts
- Policies and procedures
- Policy on breastfeeding
- Policy/Management Committee
- Post adjustment
- Post-employment restrictions
- Power to appoint staff
- Practice of the Secretary-General in disciplinary matters and cases of criminal behaviour
- Prevention of workplace harassment, sexual harassment and abuse of authority
- Private legal obligations of staff members /Financial and other obligations
- Privately owned automobiles
- Privileges and immunities
- Procedures for dealing with sexual harassment
- Procedures regarding citations for motor vehicle infractions
- Prohibition of gender/sexual harassment
- Promotion of staff at the FS-1 to FS-5 levels to the Professional category through competitive examinations
- Property and assets, Use of
- Property management and inventory control at UNHQ
- Proprietary rights
- Publications Board
R
- Re-employment
- Rebuttal of performance appraisal
- Record-keeping and the management of United Nations archives
- Recording of attendance and leave
- Records of the Serious Crimes Unit of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Timor-Leste
- Records of the United Nations Compensation Commission
- Recourse mechanisms
- Recovery of overpayments
- Recruitment
- Recruitment incentive
- Recruitment limitations
- Recruitment procedures for professional staff
- Rectification of date of birth and other personal data
- Registration of staff members and affiliates
- Reimbursement
- Reimbursement of travel expenses
- Reinstatement
- Release of staff members in bad weather or other emergency situations
- Relocation grant
- Relocation shipment
- Removal costs
- Removal of personal effects and household goods
- Remuneration, consultants
- Rental subsidies and deductions
- Repatriation grant
- Reporting of suspected misconduct
- Reporting, retaining and disposing of honours, decorations, favours, gifts or remuneration from governmental and non-governmental sources
- Representation allowance
- Representation in appeals and disciplinary cases
- Reprimand
- Required travel on official business
- Requirement of main and continuing support
- Resignation
- Responsibility of staff in connection with official records
- Rest and recuperation (R & R)
- Rest stopovers
- Restitution of advance annual or sick leave
- Retained accommodation
- Retaliation
- Retention in service beyond retirement age
- Retroactivity of payments
- Revalidation of official G visas
- Review committees on contracts
- Review of G-4 visa status for children over 21 years of age
- Road and driving safety
S
- Sabbatical leave programme
- Safety
- Salary advances
- Salary differential
- Salary increment
- Salary levels, authority to determine
- Salary policy in promotion
- Salary scales, Conference and other short-term staff at Headquarters
- Salary scales, Field Service category
- Salary scales, General Service and related categories at Headquarters
- Salary scales, Language Teachers category
- Salary scales, Locally recruited mission personnel
- Salary scales, Professional and higher categories
- Salary scales, Staff specifically recruited for service of a limited duration
- Secondary dependant allowance
- Secondary dependant status
- Secondment
- Secretary-General's bulletins
- Selection for appointment, placement and promotion (Gender)
- Selection for mission service
- Senior Advisory Board on Services to the Public
- Senior Management Group
- Senior Review Board
- Senior Review Bodies
- Senior Review Group
- Separation travel
- Service credits, accrual of
- Settling-in grant
- Sexual exploitation and abuse
- Shipment, split
- Shipping and insurance
- Sick leave
- Single parent allowance
- Smoking
- Social security
- Solicitation of voluntary contributions
- Special education grant
- Special leave
- Special measures for the achievement of gender equality
- Special post allowance (SPA)
- Special provisions when both husband and wife are staff members
- Specific instances of prohibited conduct
- Spouse allowance
- Spouses
- Staff assessment
- Staff Regulations and Rules
- Staff representatives
- Staff Rules
- Staff selection system
- Staff-management Committee
- Standard of accommodation
- Standards of conduct
- Status of staff
- Status, basic rights and duties of United Nations staff members
- Steering Committee for the improvement of the status of women in the Secretariat
- Stopovers
- Storage insurance
- Storage of household goods and personal effects
- Suspension during investigation and disciplinary proceedings
- Suspension of action
T
U
- Unaccompanied shipment and insurance
- Unauthorized absence
- Uncertified sick leave
- United Nations Appeals Tribunal (UNAT)
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
- United Nations Dispute Tribunal (UNDT)
- United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)
- United Nations Environment Programme
- United Nations Garage
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme
- United Nations laissez-passer (UNLP)
- United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG)
- United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON)
- United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV)
- United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
- United States visitor and immigrant status indicator technology (US-VISIT)
- Unsatisfactory performance
- Upgrading of substantive skills
- Use of Information and communication technology resources and data
- Use of official cars
- Use of property and assets
- Utility Tax
V
W
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