The amount of 9,747,900 provides for the salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for the 60 continuing posts and 10 new posts.

(a) The revised estimates provided for the abolition of a limited number of posts, essentially high level posts, at various dates throughout the biennium.

(e) Mobility is encouraged for all posts in the Professional and higher categories

(c) Assessing the implementation of the new Job Evaluation Master Standard for the Professional and higher categories

Fifty per cent of the advertised senior level posts (D 1 and above), were filled by women, resulting in an increase in female representation in senior level positions from 5 to 21 per cent (figure 3)

75. A major effort is under way to advance the standing of women in the Organization, especially in senior level positions.

Previous positions include Senior Inspector and Higher Grade Inspector, Legislation and Policy Division.

The Committee apos s concurrence for the upgrading of a number of senior posts was requested, in some instances, on an ex post facto basis.

The Federal Public Services Commission is also mandated to recruit members into the senior bureaucracy for posts not covered by the CSS examination. These are the so called ex cadre posts.

The Advisory Committee had no objection to such a procedure, subject to the concurrence of the Assembly regarding the distribution of high level posts.

63. Also notes with concern the number of reclassifications and new posts at senior levels proposed by the Secretary General, which could lead to a further distortion in the pyramid staff structure of an Organization that is already top heavy

According to figures published in 2002, a significant number of senior positions in the public sector were held by women.

Women accounted for 29 per cent of staff at senior and higher level posts, 22.3 per cent at the D 1 level and above, and 42.3 per cent of all professional staff on the more restricted category of posts subject to geographic distribution.

The procedure to be followed was the one now used for all senior appointments in the United Nations.

The percentage distribution of posts in the Professional and higher categories since the biennium 1998 1999 is shown below.

Over the years, the grade distribution of posts in those categories, particularly in the upper echelon, has generally remained stable.

However, the experiment must continue, since it was important to redeploy posts to high priority activities.

Several Parties emphasized the importance of an appropriate geographical distribution among staff, especially in senior posts.

(a) Take note of the report of the status of implementation by the organizations of the new job evaluation standard for the Professional and higher categories

She underlined the need to motivate staff and suggested that knowledge of gender issues be a required competency for senior positions.

In this connection, the Advisory Committee was informed that there were no set objective classification criteria for high level posts.

Among the positive examples provided, Uruguay eliminated provisions that prevented female police officers from reaching senior positions.

In order to ensure a fair division of labour, Bonn is to remain the administrative centre of the Federal Republic of Germany and retain the majority of jobs within the highest administrative authorities of the Federation.

In that connection, she wondered what measures the Italian Government had adopted to eliminate occupational segregation of women and men and, in particular, to promote the recruitment of women to highly skilled and senior management positions.

While States parties to the Convention constitute the supreme body in relation to the Convention, the Convention does envisage a continuing role for the United Nations by assigning a number of functions to the Secretary General which go beyond the usual depository functions.

Classification standards for senior level posts. Request the International Civil Service Commission to establish classification standards for all posts at the D 1 level and above.

The study should encompass the question of promotions, taking into account the principle of equitable geographical distribution, including in the case of higher level posts.

The streamlining of the senior structure of the Organization had resulted in a reduction in high level posts of about 25 per cent.

Access to literacy and to jobs in the government sector and modern professions was limited to a small section of the population usually belonging to the high castes.

Nonetheless, they seemed to be limited to stereotyped categories of jobs and to occupy very few posts at higher levels.

Article 4 stipulates that in the cabinet and senior civil service posts the proportion of persons of either gender must not be less than 25 per cent.

(d) Classification standards for senior level posts Request the International Civil Service to establish classification standards for all posts at the D 1 level and above

Since the 1970 s, wages for workers at the 90th percentile of the wage distribution in the US such as office managers have grown much faster than wages for the median worker (at the 50th percentile), such as factory workers and office assistants.

Post Reclassifications Headquarters Professional Posts

While the percentage of female legislators, senior officials and managers had increased, most women continued to be employed as clerks or machine operators.

Syndicat de la fonction publique du Québec Inc. v. Québec (Attorney General), Québec Superior Court, no. 200 05 011263 998, February 4, 2004.

Certainly, women are underrepresented in the public sector and of those already working, few are the women holding senior positions.

At its fifty seventh session, the Commission reviewed a conceptual model of the new job evaluation system for the Professional and higher categories in the organizations of the United Nations common system.

The Committee was not fully convinced of the need for such a large number of senior posts in the Department and recommends that the grade structure be reviewed. II.46.

(c) To initiate policies and programmes that will enable women to secure higher level jobs and responsibilities, including managerial positions in all economic sectors

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60. Regrets that the Secretary General did not undertake a comprehensive review of the post structure of the Secretariat and did not make proposals in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2002 2003 to address the top heavy nature of the Organization

Gender equality had also been achieved in the fields of health, social security and retirement, and likewise in employment where women were well represented not only in the professions but also in the army, the police force, diplomacy and the higher echelons of the State.