General Service Questions

FICSA Standing Committee on General Service Questions advise the Executive Committee on:

  • Salary survey methodology: including the technical analysis and development of the best method to capture and analyze information about the local salary market
  • Workshops: including training in using the survey methodology and how best to participate in a local salary survey committee (LSSC)
  • Salary levels: including the defence and protection of salaries for all categories of staff in all duty stations
  • Review of the pay and benefits system: including participation in all discussions, recommendations and decisions on every aspect of pay and benefits
  • Training: including workshops on place-to-place surveys, Professional salaries, GS salary survey methodology, job classification and post adjustment

Resources related to the Local Salary Survey Methodologies can be found below.

2021 - Report of the Standing Committee on GSQ - FICSA/C/74/GSQ/R.

FICSA Presentation on the review of GS Salary Survey by Imed and Mauro

As presented during the 74th FICSA Council.

Local Salary Survey Methodology I

Methodology for surveys of the best prevailing conditions of employment at headquarters and similar duty stations

Local Salary Survey Methodology II

Methodology for surveys of the best prevailing conditions of employment at duty stations other than headquarters and similar duty stations (field duty stations)

Manual for Salary Surveys in Duty Stations other than Headquarters and similar duty stations (Methodology II duty stations)

This manual is developed by the United Nations, as they are responsible for conducting salary surveys for Methodology II. (The ICSC conducts surveys for Methodology I duty stations). Provisions in the manual cannot contradict those in the methodology.

Glossary of the terms used in both methodologies

Sample Terms of Reference (TOR) of a Local Salary Survey Committee (LSSC) for GS Salary Survey

It is recommended that LSSCs formulate terms of reference on how they are going to operate. You can download and customize this sample TOR.

Sample Terms of Reference (TOR) of consultant to provide labour market analysis for the Local Salary Survey Committee (LSSC)

LSSCs may wish to hire expert consultants with expertise in the local labour market to provide analysis of the labour market, as well as support the LSSC prior to the salary survey exercise. You can download and customize this sample TOR based on your needs and circumstances.

2020 - Report of the Standing Committee on GSQ - FICSA/C/73/GSQ/R.1

2019 - Report of the Standing Committee on GSQ - FICSA/C/72/GSQ/R.1

2018 - Report of the Standing Committee on GSQ - FICSA/C/71/GSQ/R.1

Standing Committees Chairs and Vice-Chairs

  • Alberto Fernandez

    Alberto Fernandez

    Standing Committee Chair

    OPCW

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    Alberto Fernandez

    Alberto Fernandez

    Standing Committee Chair - General Service Questions

    OPCW

    Alberto Fernández is an international civil servant with broad experience in project management, and conference services administration. He was been involved since 2016 in staff representation activities acting as the Vice-Chairperson and Secretary of the OPCW Staff Association covering more than 400 staff. In these functions, among other things, he actively participated in the Local Salary Survey Committee in The Hague in 2016 and monitored together with other local associations based in The Hague the issuance of survey results, he is currently also a member of the Working Group on Headquarters Agreement to review social security provisions with the host country.  Since 2012, he has been working for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in a variety of functions at the General Service level and since 2017 as a Project Assistant within the Implementation Support Branch in the International Cooperation and Assistance Division. He obtained an MSc in Public Administration from the University of Leiden and also has a BSc in International Relations from the Central University of Venezuela. Alberto speaks fluent Spanish, English, and Dutch, and has a good command of French.

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  • Eugenia Agostini

    Eugenia Agostini

    Standing Committee Vice-Chair

    IAEA

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    Eugenia Agostini

    Eugenia Agostini

    Standing Committee Vice-Chair - General Service Questions

    IAEA

    My current position: Programme Management Assistant, Department of Technical Cooperation, Division for Latin America and the Caribbean.

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    Eugenia has a simultaneous interpreter and political sciences background. She has worked for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for 15 years, as a special assistant to the Ambassador to the International Organizations gathering a vast experience of the international civil servant environment.

    She then joined the Division for Latin American and the Caribbean at the Department of Technical Cooperation of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), where she became Staff Representative and Departmental Officer of Staff Council.

  • Silvia Mariangeloni

    Silvia Mariangeloni

    Standing Committee Vice-Chair

    FAO / WFP - UGSS

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    Silvia Mariangeloni

    Silvia Mariangeloni

    Standing Committee Vice-Chair - General Service Questions

    FAO / WFP - UGSS

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STANDING COMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES

Contracts

Identifying best practice in contractual arrangement

Job classification

Monitoring the job evaluation tools for all categories of staff

Recruitment and selection

Sharing information on recruitment and selection procedures and the participation of staff representatives in selection committees/panels

Installation

Advising on best practices

Appointment and promotion procedures

Exchanging information on appointment and promotion procedures and the participation of staff representatives on appointment and promotion boards

Performance management

Participating in the development of performance management and performance appraisal tools

Career development

Working towards the implementation of a holistic approach to individual career advancement

Leave provisions

Monitoring and identifying best practices

Separation and termination policies

Monitoring and identifying best practices and ensuring that termination policies are fully respected

Working hours, holidays - flexi-time

Exchanging information to identify best practices - advocating for the implementation of flexi-time policies system-wide

Mobility policies and procedures

Participating in the development of interagency and intra-agency mobility policies and safeguards against abuse

Outsourcing

Identifying the impact of outsourcing on the organizations and their staff

Training

Providing training to members on HR initiatives and trends, and monitoring the availability of training provided by the organizations; advocating that at least 2% of staffing budgets be allocated for training

Ethics

Ethics including Codes of Ethics and Standards of Conduct

Whistle-blowing

Whistle-blowing including strengthening protections for whistle-blowers and developing a model policy

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