Retirement

No. It will not be considered early retirement because the staff member has reached normal retirement age (NRA).

Staff members who wish to leave before reaching 65 years old are required, at a minimum, to provide employing organizations a written notice period of:

• one month for fixed term appointments (FTA)
• three months for permanent or continuing appointment holders (PA/CA)

Now that the mandatory retirement age has been extended to 65 for all staff, there is no longer a requirement for you to cease employment with the Organization at age 60/62. Your renewal/extension may be approved subject to meeting other conditions for renewal/extension specified in ST/AI/2013/1. 

No action is required, i.e. the staff members do not need to “opt in” or “opt out”.

The differences are summarized in the following table:

The normal retirement age (NRA) is the age at which a United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) participant can retire with a full retirement benefit unreduced on account of age, in accordance with Article 28 of the UNJSPF Regulations and Rules, as follows:

To preserve the rights of all staff members, staff members who, after 1 January 2018, were eligible to separate upon reaching their MAS at age 60 or 62 years may still do so at that age or any time thereafter until the month before reaching 65 years.

The mandatory age of separation (MAS) is the age at which staff members must be separated from the service of their employing UN organization as set by its Staff Regulations.

The General Assembly (GA) decided in the main part of its 72nd session to operationalized its decision in its 70th session (A/RES/70/244) to reset the MAS for all staff members to 65 years of age, effective 1 January 2018.