CP/RES. 871 (1453/04)

SALARY SCALE SYSTEM FOR STAFF MEMBERS IN COUNTRIES WHERE THE UNITED NATIONS
DOES NOT CIRCULATE SALARY SCALES

(Adopted at its session held on October 22, 2004)

THE PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES,

HAVING SEEN the report submitted by the General Secretariat to the Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Affairs on the study entrusted, which is to lead to the establishment of a system to establish and periodically adjust salaries of staff members in countries where the United Nations does not circulate salary scales;

CONSIDERING the decision to adopt single salary scales for general services staff at levels G6 and G3 in the offices in The Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines;

BEARING IN MIND that the recommendations put forward for normalizing the salary situation in the seven offices of the General Secretariat in the Eastern Caribbean are based on local market conditions in Barbados, where an OAS salary scale does exist, and whose levels are similar to labor conditions in The Bahamas, and that in order to normalize salaries in Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the OAS salary scale for Trinidad and Tobago be used, in view of that country’s geographic proximity and its historic, social, and political ties with the states of the Eastern Caribbean; and

EMPHASIZING that the adoption of these measures would normalize the situation of general services staff in The Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and that the increase from the old scales to the new would affect the 2005 annual budget in the amount of approximately US$10,987.00,

RESOLVES:

1. To instruct the General Secretariat to make the adjustments in the salary scales for general services staff, as of January 1, 2005, in the offices of the General Secretariat in the member states, as follows: the salary scales now in force in Barbados should also be used in The Bahamas; the salary scale now in use in Trinidad and Tobago should be used in Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

2. To request the General Secretariat to make periodic adjustments in the general services salary scale in keeping with the preceding paragraph, with the same frequency as does the United Nations.