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Judgment 1006
68th Session, 1990
World Tourism Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 2
Extract:
In 1988 the Secretary-General decided to reverse a decision which the then Secretary-General took in 1979 to grant the complainant non-local status. The reason for the reversal was that the original decision had not been warranted. The Tribunal holds that "even if that decision was based on facts that were wrong and even if there was misinterpretation of Regulation 16 [now Staff Rule 14.6 on how to determine an official's home], it was in any event too late by 1988 to reverse a decision that the organization had already abided by for almost nine years." The impugned decision is quashed.
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: RULE 14.6 OF THE WTO STAFF REGULATIONS
Keywords:
flaw; local status; non-local status; time limit; withdrawal of decision;
Judgment 1001
68th Session, 1990
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
The complainants, who are employed by UNIDO in the general service category, seek the quashing of decisions setting their pay according to the new salary scales brought in as from 1 October 1987. They are objecting to the flat 2.4 per cent salary cut included in scales drawn up on the basis of an International Civil Service Commission recommendation to account for the so-called "commissary benefit". UNIDO Staff Regulation 6.5(a) says that the pay of staff in the general service category shall be based on "the best prevailing conditions of employment in the locality" (Flemming principle). The Tribunal holds that for the purpose of establishing parity with local pay the only relevant items are the ones defined in the Staff Regulations and financial rules of the organisation and paid out of its own funds. It follows that such a benefit as access to the commissary, which is provided for neither in the Staff Regulations nor in the financial rules and is a form of tax relief bestowed by the host country at no cost to the Organisation, may not count in a comparison of this nature. The Organization's decision to reduce salaries is unlawful and cannot stand. The cases are sent back to UNIDO for the recalculation of their pay.
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: UNIDO STAFF REGULATION 6.5(A)
Keywords:
elements; enforcement; flaw; flemming principle; fringe benefits; general service category; headquarters agreement; icsc decision; privileges and immunities; reckoning; reduction of salary; salary; scale; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 1000
68th Session, 1990
International Atomic Energy Agency
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
The complainants, who are employed by the IAEA in the general service category, seek the quashing of decisions setting their pay according to the new salary scales brought in as from 1 October 1987. They are objecting to the flat 2.4 per cent salary cut included in scales drawn up on the basis of an International Civil Service Commission recommendation to account for the so-called "commissary benefit". Annex II.B.1 of the Agency's Provisional Staff Regulations says that the pay of staff in the general service category shall be based on "the best prevailing conditions of employment in the locality" (Flemming principle). The Tribunal holds that for the purpose of establishing parity with local pay the only relevant items are the ones defined in the Staff Regulations and financial rules of the organisation and paid out of its own funds. It follows that such a benefit as access to the commissary, which is provided for neither in the Staff Regulations nor in the financial rules and is a form of tax relief bestowed by the host country at no cost to the organisation, may not count in a comparison of this nature. The Agency's decision to reduce salaries is unlawful and cannot stand. The cases are sent back to the Agency for the recalculation of their pay.
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ANNEX II.B.1 OF THE IAEA PROVISIONAL STAFF REGULATIONS
Keywords:
elements; enforcement; flaw; flemming principle; fringe benefits; general service category; headquarters agreement; icsc decision; privileges and immunities; reckoning; reduction of salary; salary; scale; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 999
68th Session, 1990
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 4-5
Extract:
The complainant was accused of grave misconduct. An inquiry was held into the facts in the absence of the complainant. The Tribunal held that "whoever makes inquiries of the kind that were made in this case must be scrupulous in not taking evidence from one party without the other's knowledge. Whether or not the evidence did work to the complainant's prejudice is irrelevant. It is sufficient that it might have done so, and it is not the likelihood but the risk of prejudice that is fatal. There can be no certainty that justice will be done if evidence is taken in the absence of one of the parties. The proceedings in the appeal the complainant lodged against the decision [...] to dismiss him show a breach of due process".
(note: see Judgment 2601, under 7)
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 2601
Keywords:
flaw; inquiry; investigation; misconduct; organisation's duties; right to reply; termination of employment;
Consideration 5
Extract:
"Breach of the Staff Regulations and of general principles, including breach of due process, is a flaw in the appeal proceedings which also taints the impugned decision, and for that reason the [final] decision [to confirm the complainant's dismissal for grave misconduct] cannot stand. What does stand, however, since it is only the appeal proceedings that were improper, is the prior decision [of dismissal]." "The complainant duly filed his internal appeal with the Regional Board, and the Organization shall resume the internal appeal proceedings. The competent authorities shall reconsider the internal appeal in the light of the submissions already made by WHO and by the complainant and any further submissions the parties may make in adversarial proceedings".
Keywords:
case sent back to organisation; decision quashed; flaw; internal appeal; misconduct; procedural flaw; right to reply; termination of employment;
Judgment 997
68th Session, 1990
European Southern Observatory
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
"As the Tribunal held in Judgment 647, provided a communication takes the form of a decision, its lawfulness is immaterial for the purpose of lodging an appeal." In the circumstances of the case the complainant's internal appeal against a decision requiring him to take home leave before a specified date was time-barred. The complaint is irreceivable.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 647
Keywords:
consequence; decision; flaw; internal appeal; receivability of the complaint; start of time limit; time bar; time limit;
Judgment 994
68th Session, 1990
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
Three successive decisions to promote the complainant were taken: a promotion by direct selection from grade G.6 to P.3 as from 1 July 1986; a personal promotion from G.6 to G.7 as from 1 January 1985 and the outcome of a procedure which led to his post being regraded from G.6 to P.3 effective on 1 February 1984. The complainant challenges the Administration's decision to treat the regrading decision as void. The regrading decision was accepted by the complainant and showed no flaw. As it became final on the expiry of the time limit for challenge, the Administration may not go back on it.
Keywords:
condition; cumulative decisions; flaw; personal promotion; post classification; professional category; promotion; time limit; withdrawal of decision;
Judgment 990
68th Session, 1990
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 8
Extract:
The Tribunal "may not order any increase in [the complainant's] pension in redress for the breach of the regulations since the body that determines the pension is outside its jurisdiction."
Keywords:
amount; competence; competence of tribunal; flaw; pension; reckoning; unjspf;
Judgment 987
68th Session, 1990
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 3
Extract:
"The right to a hearing, which is a general principle of law, means that the organization may not terminate a staff member unless it has already informed him of its intention and of the grounds for termination. Such information must be given before the notification of the termination and not at the same time".
Keywords:
date; duty to inform; flaw; probationary period; right to reply; termination of employment;
Judgment 978
66th Session, 1989
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
UNESCO Staff Rule 031.14 (B) (III) formerly provided that "the non-resident's allowance shall not be paid, or shall cease to be paid, to a staff member [...] whose husband is a national of the country of the duty station" inasmuch as the word "husband" prevents the rule from applying to staff members whose wives are in the same situation, the provision is discriminatory and the impugned decision, which was based on the discriminatory provision, must therefore be quashed.
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: FORMER UNESCO STAFF RULE 103.14(B)(III)
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; equal treatment; flaw; local status; marital status; non-local status; non-resident allowance; provision; sex discrimination; staff regulations and rules;
Consideration 12
Extract:
"Since the rule was unlawful it could never become lawful by lapse of time or by acquiescence and a claim could therefore never be barred. Even though a claim to actual payment of the non-resident's allowance cannot succeed in these proceedings because of the complainant's failure to follow the proper internal procedure, the question of her entitlement to the allowance must be considered because of its bearing on the matter of the recurrent benefits."
Keywords:
allowance; continuing breach; flaw; non-resident allowance; provision; receivability of the complaint; right; time bar;
Judgment 972
66th Session, 1989
World Meteorological Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 18
Extract:
"The Secretary-General not only omitted to give due weight to the complainant's excellent record of service over a period of seven years, but also [...] overlooked essential facts. The five reasons stated are based on mistakes of fact which could have been put right if the Secretary-General had agreed to give him a hearing. In so holding the Tribunal is not interfering in the actual management of the organization. Because of those flaws his decision not to renew the complainant's appointment must be set aside."
Keywords:
contract; disregard of essential fact; fixed-term; flaw; grounds; mistake of fact; non-renewal of contract; satisfactory service;
Judgment 955
66th Session, 1989
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
The complainant's "argument that he was late in discovering that the decision had been unlawful is irrelevant: a time limit is a matter of objective fact and starts when the decision is notified. if that were not so - whatever considerations of equity there might be - there could be no certainty in legal relations between the parties, and such certainty is the whole point and purpose of time limits. An exception might be allowed only if the organisation had acted in bad faith and misled the official."
Keywords:
consequence; decision; exception; flaw; good faith; internal appeal; receivability of the complaint; start of time limit; time bar; time limit;
Judgment 946
65th Session, 1988
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 4-6
Extract:
"In this case the decision not to renew the complainant's appointment was tainted with several fatal flaws. First, the decision was not taken by the competent authority. [...] What was even more serious was the failure to inform the complainant of the reasons for the decision."
Keywords:
competence; contract; decision-maker; duty to substantiate decision; fixed-term; flaw; grounds; non-renewal of contract; right to reply;
Consideration 8
Extract:
"Since the Director-General relied solely, in taking his final decision, on a recommendation that is tainted with mistakes of [fact], his decision too is flawed with the same mistakes."
Keywords:
consequence; decision; flaw; internal appeals body; mistake of fact; recommendation;
Judgment 942
65th Session, 1988
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
"It is plain from the evidence now before the Tribunal that the transfer was flawed: first, no objective and impartial inquiry, such as the complainant had been asking for all along, had been carried out beforehand; and, secondly, there was breach of the duty any international organisation owes its staff to treat them with respect for their dignity and good name. The impugned decision must therefore be set aside."
Reference(s)
ILOAT reference: ARTICLE VIII OF THE STATUTE
Keywords:
flaw; inquiry; investigation; moral injury; organisation's duties; professional injury; respect for dignity; transfer; working relations;
Judgment 939
65th Session, 1988
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
The complainant was transferred without prior consultation of the Selection Board as required under Article 4.2(f) of the Staff Regulations. The Tribunal holds that the breach of procedure was minor, though it did cause the complainant injury. The Tribunal will therefore refrain from quashing the impugned decision and will order the organisation to pay the complainant damages and a further sum towards costs.
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ARTICLE 4.2 OF THE ILO STAFF REGULATIONS
Keywords:
consultation; costs; flaw; injury; material damages; organisation's duties; procedural flaw; selection board; transfer;
Judgment 936
65th Session, 1988
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 18
Extract:
"The decisions determining the complainants' pay are [...] void because they rest on an invalid general decision of the Council's."
Keywords:
consequence; decision; executive body; flaw; general decision; individual decision; judicial review;
Judgment 932
65th Session, 1988
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 10(C)
Extract:
"If in the original medical examination by the Committee, the doctors and the complainant had failed to understand each other, that would afford grounds for impugning the opinion. [...] The burden of proof is on the complainant to satisfy the Tribunal that the findings of the medical examination (which denied him sick-leave) [...] should be set aside because of language difficulties."
Keywords:
burden of proof; complainant; flaw; lack of evidence; medical board; medical opinion; refusal; sick leave;
Judgment 929
65th Session, 1988
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
For several years the complainants have been trying to obtain review of the description and grading of their posts. Their claims have all been rejected. The Tribunal was satisfied that on the evidence the description of their duties was out of date. In the circumstances the organization committed a mistake of law by refusing to carry out the requested review.
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; elements; flaw; judicial review; post classification; post description;
Judgment 927
65th Session, 1988
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 9
Extract:
Before the complainant's divorce during a period of trial separation, the organization discontinued payment of her family allowance and lowered the rate of her non-resident allowance. The Tribunal holds that "the temporary separation of the spouses prior to the decree of divorce, though authorised by a court order, was neither a 'legal' separation nor a 'similar legal situation' within the meaning of R IV 1.13 [of the Staff Rules and Regulations]. The trial separation is a preliminary to divorce required by law. It is limited in time and revocable. It has no effect on the marital status of the spouses, who may use it as they will. It is not in the same category as legal separation, which is a permanent solution." Since the organization made a mistake of law, the Director-General's decision must be set aside.
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ARTICLE R IV 1.13 OF CERN STAFF RULES
Keywords:
allowance; consequence; domestic law; family allowance; flaw; interpretation; marital status; non-resident allowance;
Judgment 922
65th Session, 1988
Universal Postal Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
"The Tribunal set aside the original dismissal and ordered review. Compliance with its ruling calls for more than a bald affirmation that there has been further inquiry. The complainant ought to have been received and given his say, and the decision he is now challenging ought to have set out the findings of the further inquiry. Such response to the Tribunal's ruling is cavalier and unacceptable."
Keywords:
confirmatory decision; consequence; decision; flaw; organisation's duties; procedure before the tribunal; right to reply;
Judgment 918
65th Session, 1988
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 9
Extract:
"Provided a communication takes the form of a decision, its lawfulness is immaterial to the reckoning of the time limit: to hold otherwise would impair the stability of the parties' position in law, which is the purpose of the time limit."
Keywords:
consequence; decision; flaw; internal appeal; receivability of the complaint; start of time limit; time bar; time limit;
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