Common use of Salary and Allowances Clause in Contracts

Salary and Allowances. (a) When a staff member in the Professional and higher categories is transferred or seconded to another organization: (i) at a higher or lower grade than he held in the releasing organization, the staff member’s base salary will be determined as if, immediately before the transfer or secondment, he or she had been serving in the receiving organization at the grade and step which he or she had held in the releasing organization, and had then been promoted or downgraded under the rules of the receiving organization; (ii) at the same grade, the staff member’s grade, step and incremental date at the date of joining the receiving organization will be the same as they were in the releasing organization, provided that the step will not be higher than the normal maximum of the grade. (b) When a staff member in the General Service or an equivalent local category is transferred or seconded to a post in the Professional category in another organization: (i) if there is no change in the staff member’s duty station, his or her base salary will be determined as if, immediately before the transfer or secondment, the staff member had been serving in the receiving organization at the grade and step corresponding to those which he or she had held in the releasing organization, and had then been promoted under the rules of the receiving organization; (ii) if there is a change in the staff member’s duty station, his or her base salary will be determined as in (b)(i) above, and his post adjustment will then be set at the level in force at the new duty station. (c) When a staff member in the General Service or an equivalent local category is transferred or seconded to a post in the General Service or equivalent local category in another organization: (i) if there is no change in the staff member’s duty station, his or her base salary will be determined as in (b)(i) above, including, where applicable, the clause concerning promotion; (ii) if there is a change in the staff member’s duty station, his or her grade and salary will be determined under the rules of the receiving organization and specified in advance of the transfer or secondment.