A three-day WHO executive board special meeting ended on Thursday with the green light for a package of reforms, which included a savings programme and job cuts. Estimates of 300-700 jobs may go - up to 34 per cent of all headquarters’ posts.
“These are absolutely extraordinary cutbacks – pretty much unprecedented in the public and private sector,” Matthew Parish, the lawyer representing most of the WHO staff facing the axe, told swissinfo.ch.
He believes the ongoing redundancies have violated numerous legal procedures...."
