United Nations staff compensation : analyses, comparisons, and sustainability issues / Lorraine Norris, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Norris, Lorraine, editor.

Series:

Government procedures and operations.

Government Procedures and Operations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations--Officials and employees.

United Nations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] : Nova Publishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The UN General Assembly has expressed concerns about the relatively large and growing portion of the UN budget spent on total compensation. The United States contributes 22 percent of the UN's regular budget. UN total compensation consists of salary, benefits, and allowances. Since its inception in 1945, the UN has based salaries for its professional employees on salaries for the U.S. civil service. This book examines similarities between UN and U.S. government benefits and allowances and compares their monetary values, and examines UN efforts to address concerns about the sustainability of to

Contents:

""UNITED NATIONS STAFF COMPENSATION: ANALYSES, COMPARISONS, AND SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES""; ""UNITED NATIONS STAFF COMPENSATION: ANALYSES, COMPARISONS, AND SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1: UNITED NATIONS: KEY COMPENSATION ELEMENTS SHOULD BE REVIEWED TO ADDRESS COSTS AND SUSTAINABILITY""; ""WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY""; ""WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS""; ""WHAT GAO FOUND""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""BACKGROUND""

""WHILE THE UN AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFER GENERALLY SIMILAR BENEFITS AND ALLOWANCES, EACH PROVIDES CERTAIN BENEFITS AND ALLOWANCES WITH HIGHER MONETARY VALUES THAN THE OTHER""""THE UN HAS BEGUN TO ADDRESS CONCERNS ABOUT THE LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY OF RISING COMPENSATION COSTS, BUT ITS REVIEW OF TOTAL COMPENSATION DOES NOT INCORPORATE KEY ELEMENTS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""RECOMMENDATION FOR EXECUTIVE ACTION""; ""AGENCY COMMENTS AND OUR EVALUATION""; ""APPENDIX I: OBJECTIVES, SCOPE, AND METHODOLOGY""

""APPENDIX II: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON GAO�SESTIMATES OF INCOME REPLACEMENT RATES FORUNITED NATIONS STAFF AND U.S. FEDERALCIVILIAN EMPLOYEES""""APPENDIX III: COMPARISON OF ALLOWANCES FORUNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT STAFF AND U.S.CIVIL SERVICE STAFF OVERSEAS AND FOREIGNSERVICE EMPLOYEES""; ""APPENDIX IV: LEAVE BENEFITS""; ""Chapter 2: UN COMPENSATION: UNITED NATIONS SHOULD CLARIFY THE PROCESS AND ASSUMPTIONS UNDERLYING SECRETARIAT PROFESSIONAL SALARIES""; ""WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY""; ""WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS""; ""WHAT GAO FOUND""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""BACKGROUND""

""ICSC DETERMINES CHANGES TO EACH COMPONENT OF UN SALARIES, THEN CALCULATES THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UN AND U.S. SALARIES""""ICSC�S REPORTED DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UN AND U.S. CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES HAS INCREASED; ICSC�S PROCESS AND RELATED ASSUMPTIONS FOR CALCULATING THIS DIFFERENCE LACK CLARITY""; ""UN BENEFITS ARE GENERALLY SIMILAR TO THOSE OFFERED TO U.S. CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES, AND UN ALLOWANCES ARE SIMILAR TO ALLOWANCES FOR U.S. CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES SERVING OVERSEAS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""RECOMMENDATION FOR EXECUTIVE ACTION""; ""AGENCY COMMENTS AND OUR EVALUATION""

""APPENDIX I: OBJECTIVES, SCOPE, AND METHODOLOGY""""APPENDIX II: UN STAFF ASSESSMENT AND THE TAX EQUALIZATION FUND""; ""APPENDIX III: ICSC�S MARGIN CALCULATION PROCESS: STEPS, ASSUMPTIONS, AND ALTERNATIVES""; ""APPENDIX IV: UN AND U.S. CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT BENEFITS""; ""APPENDIX V: UN ALLOWANCES AND ALLOWANCES FOR U.S. CIVIL SERVICE STAFF SERVING OVERSEAS AND FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS""; ""INDEX""; ""Blank Page""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 6, 2015).

ISBN:

1-63463-419-5

OCLC:

914433229