International > Report of the Governing body of the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation > 1931

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Article 15.
Officials of the Institute shall be appointed at the scales of salary fixed for the various
categories of officials by the Governing Body on the proposal of the Director. Family allowances
shall be assigned to them on conditions laid down by the Governing Body, and on production
of documents certifying the civil status of the persons entitled.
Officials may be required to furnish such evidence yearly.
4. Salaries.
Article 16.
In the absence of a decision of the Director to the contrary, the salaries of the officials
of the Institute shall be payable at the end of each month in respect of the past month. In
the case of an official’s death, the Directors’ Committee may grant the persons who were
wholly or partly dependent upon him an allowance at least equal to three months’ pay.
In the interval between two sessions and in urgent cases the President is authorised to
grant an advance in respect of the said allowance.
Article 17.
Periodical increments of salary may be granted, subject to the financial resources available
and in accordance with the scales of salary provided for in Article 15 of the present Regulations.
5. Sick Leave.
Article 18.
Every official absent on the ground of illness must submit, after three days, a medical
certificate stating that he is unable to perform his duties and giving the probable duration
of incapacity.
A sick official may also be required to submit to examination by a medical practitioner
named by the Director and at the expense of the Institute.
Article 19.
In maternity cases, special leave will be allowed which in normal cases shall not exceed
six weeks before and six weeks after confinement.
6. Holidays and Annual Leave.
Article 20.
Subject to the exigencies of the service, officials will have leave on the following public
holidays, which will not be deemed to be part of their annual leave :
(a) From Good Friday to Easter Monday inclusive.
(b) Ascension Day and Whit-Monday.
(c) Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
(d) The other days which are legal public holidays in France.
Article 21.
Officials appointed for at least one year are entitled to annual leave as indicated hereunder :
{a) Officials of a grade at least equal to that of clerk {redacteur) are entitled to thirty-
six working-days in each year ;
{b) Other officials are entitled to twenty-eight working-days in each year ;
[c) The date of the leave shall be fixed by the Director, regard being had to the
exigencies of the service.
An official who spends all or part of his annual leave in his country of origin is entitled
to add to his leave the time required for the journey there and back by the quickest route
(except by air) or by an approved route. This privilege may not be exercised more frequently
than once a year. Officials desiring to proceed to a distant country may, by way of exception,
be authorised by the Director to hold over two-thirds of their annual leave during two years
and to add such period to the ordinary leave for the third year.
Officials appointed for less than one year are not entitled to any annual leave until they
have served for at least six months in the year ; in such cases they will be granted leave, so
far as is compatible with the exigencies of the service, at the rate of six working-days for each
period of three months’ service.