By Matthew Russell Lee, Exclusive
UNITED NATIONS, May 8 – With UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres once again out of town, after a brief refurn for a Lusophone garden party his UN Security hindered Inner City Press from covering, now Guterres' head of Management Jan Beagle is circulating an Administrative Instruction about staff downsizing. Inner City Press has obtained the draft and put it exclusively online on Patreon, here. Here are three sample paragraphs:
“4.12 Staff in the General Service and related categories and National Officers in posts subject to local recruitment shall be retained on suitable positions available within their entity at their duty station only, as per staff rule 9.6 (f).
4.13 Staff in the Field Service and Professional or higher categories or internationally recruited staff in the General service and related categories will be retained on available suitable positions within their entity (both within and outside their current duty station).
4.14 When a suitable position is found which is not immediately available but expected to become available within six months, for example as a result of a retirement or resumed funding, staff members may be assigned against temporary funding (when available in the entity) or placed on special leave without pay for that period with the agreement of staff members, with the understanding that they will subsequently be assigned to the position.”
Leave without pay. This comes as Guterres is separately proposing to move hundreds of UN jobs out of New York to Mexico City, Budapest and Nairobi, which Inner City Press is also exclusively covering here. There are references to a Ban Ki-moon “Secretary General's Bulletin” of 2009 as a basis for the draft Administrative Instruction on downsizing. This seems like a leap. This too: while the draft refers to integrity, the Guardian has reported that Beagle while at UNAIDS, along with Luiz Loures, was subject to a detailed complaint of harassment from Sima Newell, here. We'll have more on this. Watch this site.
