Consultants and Individual Contractors cannot have any representative, certifying, approving authority and/or supervisory responsibility or be involved in decisions affecting the status, rights and entitlements of staff members; as a means of applying a probationary period to candidates prior to offering them a staff appointment; the services should not duplicate work or activities already done, being done or about to be done by other individuals, departments or offices of the Secretariat. Consultants shall not perform the functions of regular and continuing staff members. Consultants and individual contractors are not eligible to apply for, or be appointed to, posts in the Professional and above category or FS-6/7 levels in the Secretariat, which includes mission posts, for a period of six months following the end of their service. As this restriction was put in place by the General Assembly, Heads of Entity cannot approve waivers under their authority to approve exceptions to Administrative Instructions.
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