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UN employment conditions are deemed by some governments to be over-generous: inflated, tax-exempt salaries, excessive benefits, high pensions. On the other hand, staff associations claim that salaries and other benefits have declined, and heads of secretariats complain that professional salaries are no longer competitive and fail to attract qualified candidates from certain countries. Who is right? The answer, or answers, can only be given in relation to the complex UN salary system, categories of staff, and their nationalities.
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See Jacques Tassin, ‘Administrative Coordination in the United Nations Family’, in de Cooker (ed.), International Administration; Doc. ACC/1993/PER/R.11, 30 June 1993, ‘Study of the application of the Noblemaire Principle’.
On UNV, see Beigbeder, The Role and Status of International Humanitarian Volunteers and Organizations, Chapter 8, and ‘UNV at a glance — the key statistics for 1994’; on White Helmets, see Doc. A/50/203/Add. 1, 27 June 1995.
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Beigbeder, Y. (1997). Are UN Staff Overpaid or Underpaid?. In: The Internal Management of United Nations Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13958-3_9
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