The Staff Coordinating Council – the union for all staff at UNOG (which includes UNCTAD, ECE, OHCHR, OCHA, UNDRR, UNRISD, and other Secretariat staff in Geneva) – calls on all staff to play an active role in the protection of your staff rights and improvement of welfare initiatives. You can visit our website to find…
Equal pay day | Journée de l’égalité salariale
Today is UN International Equal Pay Day. This is a notable moment in the ongoing campaign to end discrimination and the Staff Coordinating Council fully supports this event. As a union representing UNOG staff, we are all too familiar with the constant battle for fairness and justice at work. It is a thread that runs…
UNOG Badminton Club | Club de badminton de l’ONUG
The UNOG Badminton Club offers all UN staff members the opportunity to play badminton in a friendly and fun environment, close to the Palais des Nations. Club members play every Tuesday (from 18:30 to 22:00) and Thursday (from 18:00 to 20:00) at the Collège Sismondi during the school year, from September to June (click here)….
Main conclusions from the Townhall on the liquidity crisis | Conclusions de la réunion générale sur la crise des liquidités
Following our request, a global townhall took place last Wednesday regarding the Regular Budget liquidity crisis and the resulting hiring freeze. This townhall, for which a recording will soon be made available, was a useful complement to the information provided at the April townhall on the same topic (click here). For those of you who…
The September issue of UN Today is now out | Le numéro de septembre du UN Today est désormais disponible
The September issue of UN Today, Geneva’s staff magazine, is now out. Highlights this month include: How to find housing in and around Geneva – after lockdown, many of us want something different The difficulties we face with remote interpretation How the UNDT judgement spells the end of the UN common system Photos from our sustainable…
New crèche places for UN staff | Places de crèche disponibles pour les fonctionnaires de l’ONU
We are pleased to tell you that we have secured crèche places especially negotiated for UN staff, in Mies (near Versoix), Rolle, Morges and Mont-sur-Lausanne. For more details, you may refer to this guide. For pre-registration, please click on this link. Please note that the Council does not assume any responsibility for the relation that…
Update on continuing and fixed-term appointments | Informations mises à jour sur les engagements de caractère continu et de durée déterminée
We would like to update you on the latest regarding continuing and fixed-term appointments. Continuing appointments For memory these are supposed to be awarded every year during a review. All staff with five years of continued service are eligible. However, there is a limit to how many staff can have a continuing or permanent appointment…
Townhall this Friday on inequality of pay and other topics | Réunion générale vendredi sur l’inégalité des salaires et autres sujets
You will have seen Tuesday’s broadcast on tomorrow’s townhall with management in New York and the Director-General of UNOG. As you will recall, this was requested by the Staff Coordinating Council in order to get a full explanation on how management intends to resolve the inequality of pay in Geneva (following the UNDT judgement), as…
Result of the collection for the victims of the explosion in Beirut | Somme collectée pour les victimes de l’explosion à Beyrouth
As you may recall, on 4 August the city of Beirut was devastated by a terrible explosion that left over 190 killed, 6,500 injured, 100 missing and 300,000 homeless. Following this terrible tragedy, UNOG staff rose to the occasion once again, showing great generosity in the collection organized under the auspices of the Staff Coordinating…
Townhall next Friday on equal pay and other issues of concern | Réunion publique vendredi prochain sur l’égalité salariale et d’autres sujets de préoccupation
You may recall that following the issuance of the UNDT judgement on the pay cut, we requested the Secretary-General to address staff in Geneva via videoconference, both on this issue and others, such as the emerging prospects of possible downsizing, the hiring freeze, the attempts to artificially restrict the granting of continuing contracts, the attempts to…