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No 617 Avril -April 2003
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A moving moment INTERVIEW In the UN everything takes time SPECIAL PAIX PEACE SPECIAL Dear colleagues and
friends PERSONNEL 3 Percent Staff Pay
Hike Voted ROSES & CACTUS GLOBE De la gastronomie
au prêt à manger (French/Chinese) ANNONCE LETTRES TECH NEWS Vers une normalisation de lidentification HUMOUR SERIAL Mélanie Mercier
née Markowitz (French) LAST MINUTE
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3 Percent Staff Pay Hike VotedDaniel Pruzin
On staff pay, World Trade Organization members adopted a budget that
will increase the organization's spending by 8.3 percent to 154 million
Swiss francs (about $106 million) next year. Included in this is a 3
percent pay increase for WTO staff with effect from Jan. 1, with an
additional 1 percent rise taking place July 1, In addition, members committed to consider further adjustments as deemed necessary to reduce the gap in pay between staff at the WTO and the United Nations, and to undertake a review of methodologies for future pay adjustments. The latter was an important demand of secretariat staff, who want pay reviews to take place on an annual basis rather than the current practice of once every three years. WTO staff are due to vote Dec. 13 on whether to accept the pay increase and bring a halt to their "work to rule" action. The staff's "work to rule," which involved refusal to work overtime, began on Nov. 15 in an effort to press their demands for an 8 percent pay increase. The author is with WTO. |
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