10 The provisions relating to working hours are applicable to staff holding continuing, fixed-term and temporary appointments. See also separate provisions for staff holding part-time appointments.
20 As per Staff Rule 610.1 full time staff members are subject to call for duty at any time. The normal work day shall be eight hours and the normal work week shall be forty hours. The days of the week and the working hours that constitute the normal work week shall be designated as the needs of the Organization require. Where exceptional conditions, e.g. climate, make the working of a forty-hour week impracticable, permission may be obtained from the Director-General for a different working week.
30 Sunday (or an equivalent day) shall not be a work day. Staff members may be required to work beyond normal working hours whenever requested to do so.
40 Some offices follow a system of staggered working hours although some groups of staff may be required to work fixed hours in order to ensure the continuity of services e.g. maintenance personnel, ushers, messengers, drivers and guards may have to observe a different working week from other General Service staff when prevailing local practice or the needs of the office so require.
50 Regional and other offices may determine their schedule of office hours to suit local conditions. The working hours for the main WHO offices are listed in III.20 Annex 6.A.
60 As per Staff Rule 610.3 a staff member unable to report for duty on a work day will notify his/her supervisor within 4 hours after the beginning of the work day if it is possible to do so. Failure to give such notification without proper justification may result in disciplinary action being taken.
70 If the Director-General permits staff to leave the office earlier on a given day, this relates only to those staff members actually in attendance on that day and is not to be treated as an official holiday, nor should it be deducted from the leave taken, in respect of the staff member absent on that day.
80 Records of attendance will be maintained and serve as a basis for salary payments.
