Competition among departments for staff has been intense and staff turnover has been at high levels.

Staff security has always been a feature of UNHCR's work.

A draft proposal has been circulated to staff pension committees.

A consultant has been engaged to review the issue of the proportion of General Service staff to Professional staff.

A slight increase in the number of staff members has been noted.

A Staff Council representative has been included in the Learning Advisory Board.

The customs house at the airport has been revamped, and a permanent staff of officers has been on duty since May 2005.

As UNAMSIL has been drawing down, international staff turnover has increased, owing to reassignments to new and expanding missions, which has resulted in a reduction of skilled staff in the Mission.

The other has reportedly been sent to the police staff school for advanced training.

The lateral transfer of language staff has been extended to cover all regional commissions.

Travel planning for staff members of the Office of the Executive Director has been established.

Dedicated training on Atlas has been incorporated into every training programme organized for targeted staff.

This is in addition to what has been specifically recommended by the Committee on non staff costs.

In addition, a new staff member with a background in grant management and accounting has recently been recruited.

(c) If a nominated beneficiary does not survive, or if a designation of beneficiary has not been made or has been revoked, the amount standing to the credit of a staff member will, upon the staff member's death, be paid to his or her estate.

As a result of the suspension, competition for staff among departments had been intense and staff turnover had been high.

While the United Nations has in place detailed standards of conduct, they have not been effectively disseminated to staff.

Thus far, the review of current accounts has been completed, while the old outstanding accounts have only partially been completed, owing to the staff shortage.

Of the total approved programmable amount of the secretariat, US 11,281,000, US 9,815,200 (87 per cent) has been used for staff related costs, of which 41 per cent (US 4,024,200) has been spent on common staff costs, such as post adjustments, medical insurance, and education grants.

With fewer staff available, overtime usage has increased however, longer working hours have taken a toll on the morale, health and motivation of the staff, and there has been an increase in sick and emergency leave taken.

Staff rule 104.7 specifies that staff members other than those having been locally recruited shall be considered to have been internationally recruited.

UNHCR has noted increasing violations of the principle of non refoulement worldwide, and reports that its staff has increasingly been denied access to asylum seekers.

A pool of in house gender trainers has been made available to train new staff in leadership level induction programmes.

In addition, under Conference Affairs Services, USD 418,070 has been included to cover the hiring of temporary staff during sessions.

A qualified internal UNHCR staff member has been identified to fully implement the Plan of Action as of August 2005.

The staff member's service should have been satisfactory.

However, for the past decade, the Public Solicitor's Office has been extremely under staffed with an average of approximately 2 staff.

Staff has been hired to provide coordination and leadership and to develop training and other capacity building programmes and measurement tools.

Succession planning within the General Service and related categories has been virtually impossible, with no new entry level staff being recruited.

An inordinate amount of time has been devoted to dealing with vacancies, as well as to the training of new staff.

The need to expand training for procurement staff has been reiterated in successive General Assembly resolutions on procurement reform since 1996.

A weekly show targeting Asia has been revitalized and a staff member will travel to India to produce and promote programmes.

(b) The staff member's service should have been satisfactory.

(b) The staff member's service should have been satisfactory.

Such allegations had been made against six staff members.

In order to support all these activities the Office has been organizing training workshops for its own staff at headquarters and in the field, with the support of the United Nations System Staff College.

The IMF has been criticized for burdening borrowers with unnecessary and sometimes perverse lending conditions, but its highly qualified staff has not been shy in blowing the whistle when it perceived domestic vulnerabilities in other countries.

The new department has approximately 70 staff.

The Director General may request a staff member, on return from home leave, to furnish satisfactory evidence that this requirement has been met.

Accordingly, training of procurement staff has been an integral part of the procurement reform programme at the United Nations in the past decade.

The Secretariat has been actively involved in the development of a United Nations system wide procurement training and certification programme, which has been developed by IAPWG under the guidance of the United Nations Staff College, Turin, Italy.

Since September 2000, 13 UNRWA staff members have been killed.

d Electronic archiving has been slowed down by the resignation in May 2004 of a General Service staff member who was jointly responsible for this activity, and the freeze on recruitment of General Service staff has prevented the Court from recruiting for this vacancy.

It has been a particularly popular option in 2009 for employers trying to reduce staff costs without having to make redundancies during the recession.

This estimate has been based on the actual number of UNHCR staff by duty station and on averages for salaries and years of service.