Social Security (pensions, SHIF)
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Coordinator
Guillaume Filhon
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Member
Thierry Kouame
Coordinators: Guillaume Filhon
Members: Thierry Kouame
Technical Advisers: François Kientzler, Cherry Thompson-Senior (Former Officials)
Objectives and means of action :
Objective: To ensure effective, efficient and sustainable health care and pension funds.
Means of action
- Ensuring the application of the Regulations and Administrative Rules of the Staff Health Insurance Fund, particularly with regard to the information provided to insured staff, timely publication of annual reports, etc.
- Participate in the discussions on how to avoid unnecessary administrative expenses.
- Remind each member of the need to be well informed about the management of the funds entrusted by him/her to the health and pension protection bodies. The latest exchanges concerning the management of the retirement savings of ILO staff at the UN Staff Pension Fund are a step in this direction.
- Continuing discussions with the ILO Administration to consolidate services and benefits for insured staff working in the field, in remote duty stations and technical cooperation projects. The latest discussions with SHIF on the development of services and funding are a step in this direction.
- Increasing awareness and engagement of staff with regard to health care and pension issues in order to strengthen the position of staff representatives on joint bodies. This objective will be attained through regular, close communication between the Staff Union (including the Former Officials’ Section) and the insured staff representatives of the SHIF Management Committee and the representatives on the Joint Staff Pension Board. In this respect, the legitimacy of the questions asked by the staff representatives must be underlined.
- Write regular explanatory texts for the Union’s blog, promoting and organizing information sessions, General Assemblies and referendums in order to ensure that any proposed changes to the structure, programme, benefits or premiums are explained clearly and fully to insured staff and other participants so that no decisions are taken without extensive consultation.
Recent News
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Election field – 2024-2026
The election of five titular members employed in the field and of five substitute members employed at headquarters, whose mandate will run from 1 October
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Bulletin No. 1597 – Statement by the Chairperson of the Staff Union – 350th Session of the Governing Body (5 March 2024)
Please note that Staff Union Bulletin No. 1597 on the above mentioned subject can be consulted here: Bulletin 1597
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New Collective Agreement on a Procedure for Recruitment and Selection
The Staff Union and the Administration signed a Collective Agreement on “Procedure for recruitment and selection”, on 23 February 2024. You can find it: here
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Speech by the Chairperson of the Staff Union – ILO Governing Body, PFA (5 March 2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfxGf6NvR5I Mr Chairperson,Mr Director-General,Ladies and gentlemen of the Governing Body, Dear colleagues, and all of you here today, in this room or online, There’s an