UN chief in South Sudan says outsourcing of security guards will continue
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June 10,2013 (JUBA) - The head of the United Nations Mission in South
Sudan, Hilde F. Johnson said Monday that she cannot change global
body’s policy of hiring contractors to protect UN buildings.
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Hilde Johnson, speaking to reporters in Yambio, Western Equatoria
state, July 17, 2012 (ST).
Johnson was reacting to a strike by local staff members, which the
mission employed as security guards against outsourcing security
services. She said that according to a resolution of the General
Assembly of the UN, the current policy is to outsource the protection
of UN premises.
She said in the case of South Sudan, at the request of UN headquarters
in New York and following the budget decisions of member states, the
decision to outsource security to a private company was taken a long
time ago.
However, following the oil shutdown and subsequent economic
difficulties, implementation of this decision was delayed by a year
and a half in the interest of the South Sudanese employees and the
individual contractors themselves.
The new contract, which will enter into force shortly, will absorb all
guards and individual contractors currently employed by the mission.
"Subject to satisfactory performance, everyone will be employed. There
will be no loss of jobs. The guards on strike are individual
contractors who were hired on short term contracts and on an interim
basis," an UNMISS statement reads in part.
As their contracts expire, they will be absorbed by the company that
has been given the overall contract. The company is fully registered
in South Sudan and is partly owned by South Sudanese nationals.
With these new arrangements, the individual concerned will have better
job security, while their salaries will remain above the average in
South Sudan, it added.
(ST)
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