Staff-Management Coordination Committee |
| The Staff-Management Coordination Committee (SMCC), established by the Secretary-General, is the joint staff-management machinery at the Secretariat level and thus the Secretariat-wide mechanism for negotiation in good faith between staff representatives and the administration. Its role is to identify, examine and resolve issues relating to staff welfare, including conditions of employment and of work, general conditions of life and other personnel policies. To this end, SMCC endeavours to reach agreement on recommendations to the Secretary-General on policies and procedures regarding Secretariat-wide issues concerning staff-management relations and general questions of staff welfare, monitors the implementation of agreements reached, and ensures that issues of relevance on which no decision has been made after one session are considered at subsequent sessions |
| In 2003, all staff representative withdrew their participation in the SMCC, following the non-implementation of the SMCC agreements by the Administration over several years. In 2003, and again in 2005, the General Meetings of the staff in New York barred the United Nations Staff Union to participate in the SMCC until after the Secretary-General had acted upon specified outstanding matters. In 2006, despite the fact that the Secretary-General had not addressed the reasons that led to the withdrawal of participation in the SMCC, the other staff representative bodies except the United Nations Staff Union resumed participation in the SMCC, following intense lobbying by the Office of Human Resources Management. |
 Terms of Reference of SMCC |
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