Examples of using Fixed-term appointment in English and their translations into Chinese
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Rule 103.10: FIXED-TERM APPOINTMENTS.
Fixed-term appointments cover the employment of staff engaged for defined periods of time to perform functions that are part of the organization' s regular and continuing activities.
The proposal that all contracts should be either temporary or fixed-term appointments, on the one hand, or open-ended continuing appointments, on the other, required further study.
The recruitment of national staff as individual contractors prior to granting fixed-term appointments to suitable candidates resulted in additional expenditure.
It had also introduced a detailed evaluation report for temporary fixed-term appointments and for consultants who were hired for longer periods of time.
The reform would also deal with the issue of the circumstances in which staff members completing fixed-term appointments could receive a termination indemnity.
Recommends deferring a decision on an end-of-service grant for staff holding fixed-term appointments until ICSC has concluded its deliberations on the matter.
The administrative instruction provides further information on the conditions for granting and extending fixed-term appointments.
Second, the Secretary-General' s report had proposed to maintain the provision whereby fixed-term appointments might be renewed or extended to cover a maximum period of five years.
The acceptance rate of candidates from the national competitive examination is likely to decline if they are offered only fixed-term appointments.
These criteria would ensure that there is always a reasonable percentage of staff who remain on temporary and fixed-term appointments.
Special attention must be paid to the review of contractual arrangements in the United Nations and to the wider use of fixed-term appointments and secondments from national civil services.
ICSC notes that the Secretary-General's original proposal provided for limiting fixed-term appointments to specific missions or projects.
The funds and programmes would have the flexibility to extend fixed-term appointments beyond five years in accordance with their operational mandates(ibid., para. 35).
Table 7 below shows that by the end of 2002 all but two staff members were under series 100 with indefinite or fixed-term appointments.
ICSC notes that the Secretary-General' s original proposal provided for limiting fixed-term appointments to specific missions or projects.
The criteria and conditions for granting longer-term fixed-term appointments are being prescribed in an administrative instruction that is currently being finalized.
(d) Funds and programmes would have the flexibility to extend fixed-term appointments beyond five years in accordance with their operational mandates.
Regarding fixed-term appointments, he supported the Secretary-General' s proposal that contracts of international staff serving in peacekeeping operations should no longer be limited to a specific mission.
In the interest of the programme activities of the Organization and subject to satisfactory performance and budgetary coverage, fixed-term appointments shall normally be extended for a period of three years.