STU/67th Council/17/020
3 July 2017

Dear colleagues,

The New Director of Human Resources is arriving today , and we would like to draw his attention on the issues that need to be addressed as a priority:

• Colleagues are deprived of career development prospects , compounded by the almost systematic recruitment of external candidates for over a year now;
• There is a massive use of temporary assistance : more than half of the Organization’s personnel is made up of temporary staff;
• There is still no proper training budget ;
• The malaise of the staff is either poorly addressed or not taken into account at all : absence of a stress management policy and burnout prevention policy, deterioration of catering services and premises, hygiene problems;
• Unacceptable delays in the payment of pensions;
• Some colleagues are still downgraded , three years after the redeployment exercise;
• To this day, nobody knows whether UNESCO will implement the ICSC recommendation, requiring that the mandatory age of separation should be raised to 65 years of age at the latest by 1 January 2018 ;
• The ILOAT judgements on the Medical Benefit Fund (MBF), dated 8 February 2017, which condemn UNESCO to withdraw the administrative circular AC/HR/43 and revert to the former governance system, have still not been executed by the Administration.

A lot of these files are a significant cost for the Organisation, whose financial situation, already fragile, is becoming catastrophic.

Tomorrow, the Director-General will introduce the New Director of Human Resources to the staff. We are expecting him to address these concerns.

Best regards,

The STU Council.