What are the Federations greatest achievements over the years?
FICSA’s actions have helped staff to: • Enhance reviews of the internal system of justice and the appeals process • Improve security in all duty stations, especially for all staff at high-risk duty stations • Protect the staff/management consultative process • Preserve staff rights when organizations reform and re-profile • Enhance the voice of staff in interagency bodies • Obtain the release of detained staff and provide assistance to their family members • Change the rules governing contractual arrangements, access to personal files, the definition of dependency • Successfully challenge proposed cuts in pensions and salaries and secure a more equitable adjustment for pension beneficiaries • Use legal recourse proceedings to challenge reduction and freeze of pensions • Improve the content of cost-of-living questionnaires • Obtain increases in allowances and benefits, e.g., children’s allowance, installation grant, hazard pay • Eliminate deductions from base salary (negative post adjus
