– 51 – (2.1 – Conditions of employment) 2 STAFF MATTERS 2.1 Conditions of employment R 260 Leave for military service (C-1952, last amended C-1954) The Council, considering that when ITU staff are given leave for military service, no matter how long their period of military service may be, the salaries of that staff together with any other expenses in connection with the calling-up order, shall be borne by the country on behalf of which the military service is performed, resolves that the Union shall bear no expenses in relation to its staff called up for military service, invites the Secretary-General to comply with this decision. Ref.: Document 1606/CA9 (1954). R 261 Position of families of Union officials liable to mobilization (C-1952) The Council, considering a) Resolution 260; b) the position of ITU staff in two World Wars; c) that internationalization of the staff of the ITU has brought the nationals of distant countries to Geneva; d) the position which might arise for their families if ITU officials were mobilized, resolves that, provisionally, the following action may be taken: 1 the Union to bear the cost of repatriating the family of a mobilized official to its country of origin if the competent authorities of the country in question cannot repatriate them; 2 if repatriation of the family proves impossible, the Union to pay the family half the basic salary of the official concerned; 3 the preceding paragraph not to apply to the families of mobilized officials which for personal reasons refuse repatriation, if repatriation is possible, nor to the families of officials of Swiss nationality; 4 the Union will undertake to recover from the countries of which the families of its officials are nationals the expenditure incurred in virtue of this Resolution. Ref.: Document 1239/CA7 (1952).