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Fitness for international civil service (497,-666)
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Total judgments found: 43
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Judgment 3402
119th Session, 2015
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The Tribunal found that the evidence established an intention to defraud on the part of the complainant and that the decision to dismiss him was not disproportionate, but it awarded damages because of the delay in the internal appeal procedure.
Consideration 10
Extract:
"The Tribunal accepts that the remedy of dismissal would not have been the only remedy available to the FAO. But the conduct of the complainant involved a serious transgression of a basic obligation of international civil servants to behave honestly in their dealings with their employer."
Keywords:
fitness for international civil service; staff member's duties; termination of employment;
Judgment 2788
106th Session, 2009
Pan American Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 1
Extract:
"[The] purpose [of probation] is to provide an organisation with an opportunity to assess an individual's suitability for a position. In the course of making this assessment, an organisation must establish clear objectives against which performance will be assessed, provide the necessary guidance for the performance of the duties, identify in a timely fashion the unsatisfactory aspects of the performance so that remedial steps may be taken, and give a specific warning that the continued employment is in jeopardy (see Judgment 2529, under 15)."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 2529
Keywords:
candidate; criteria; definition; fitness for international civil service; organisation; organisation's duties; post; probationary period; purpose; qualifications; refusal; unsatisfactory service; warning; work appraisal;
Judgment 2427
99th Session, 2005
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 2
Extract:
"According to the case law [...], the Tribunal is competent to review the lawfulness of any decision by the Director-General to terminate a staff member's probation. In particular, it may determine whether that decision is based on errors of fact or law, or whether essential facts have not been taken into consideration, or whether clearly mistaken conclusions have been drawn from the facts, or, lastly, whether there has been an abuse of authority. The Tribunal may not, however, replace with its own the executive head's opinion of a staff member's performance, conduct or fitness for international service (see Judgment 318, considerations).
Other cases mention, as further grounds on which the Tribunal will review such decisions, a formal or procedural flaw, or lack of due process (see, for example, Judgments 13, 687, 736, 1017, 1161, 1175, 1183 and 1246) which, it has been noted, must be substantial to invalidate an end-of-probation termination decision."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 13, 318, 687, 736, 1017, 1161, 1175, 1183, 1246
Keywords:
abuse of power; case law; competence of tribunal; conduct; contract; decision; decision quashed; disregard of essential fact; evidence; executive head; fitness for international civil service; flaw; formal flaw; grounds; judicial review; limits; mistake of fact; mistaken conclusion; misuse of authority; non-renewal of contract; probationary period; procedural flaw; termination of employment; tribunal; work appraisal;
Judgment 2261
95th Session, 2003
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 15-16
Extract:
The complainant challenges a disciplinary measure of dismissal for misconduct based on the following three charges: (1) external commercial activities and misrepresentation, (2) disloyalty, and (3) insubordination. In the challenged decision, the Director-General refused to follow the Appeals Committee's recommendation to the effect that the three charges be dismissed and confirmed the dismissal, dealing in detail with the first charge. Although the Tribunal acknowledges that the evidence justifies the Director-General's position, it sets aside the impugned decision because "the Director-General entirely failed to give any reason whatsoever for disagreeing with the Committee's recommendations respecting the second and third charges". The Tribunal adds that "it is not for [...] itself [to] examine the evidence to find justification for the unmotivated decision of the Director-General. [...] Nor should it condone the organization's failure to bring the internal appeal process to a timely and proper conclusion effectively depriving the complainant of both his remedy and his employment for over three years. Accordingly, it will quash the penalty on the first charge only and refer the matter back to the Director-General for a new decision on the penalty after giving the complainant full opportunity to make representations."
Keywords:
concurrent employment; conduct; decision; disciplinary measure; due process; duty to substantiate decision; executive head; fitness for international civil service; insubordination; internal appeal; internal appeals body; misconduct; organisation's duties; refusal; report; right of appeal; right to reply; separation from service; termination of employment; time limit;
Judgment 2009
90th Session, 2001
International Atomic Energy Agency
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
The complainant was suspended without pay for three months after being accused of making a false declaration and submitting false information to a court of law. The Joint Disciplinary Board found that there was sufficient evidence to prove his wrongdoing. "The Tribunal is satisfied that the Joint Disciplinary Board was entitled, having weighed the evidence, to draw the conclusions it did. It found that the complainant's explanations were not credible and rejected them. Where doubt does not exist, the question of the benefit of the doubt does not arise. So the complainant cannot succeed on the plea that his employer was bound to accept that he had made a mistake. The Board was fully justified in its findings."
Keywords:
appraisal of evidence; benefit of doubt; conduct; disciplinary measure; disciplinary procedure; evidence; fitness for international civil service; general principle; misconduct; misrepresentation;
Judgment 1977
89th Session, 2000
International Atomic Energy Agency
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 10
Extract:
"The complainant's contention that the penalty of dismissal was disproportionate to the offence is wholly without merit. He defrauded his employer of substantial sums of money in circumstances that left no room for doubt that he both knew what he was doing and knew that it was wrong. When his actions came under suspicion, he falsified documents in an attempt to justify himself. His actions fell far below the standards expected of any employee let alone the high standards required of an international civil servant. the penalty of dismissal was amply warranted."
Keywords:
conduct; disciplinary measure; fitness for international civil service; misconduct; misrepresentation; proportionality; serious misconduct; termination of employment;
Consideration 3
Extract:
"The complainant on several occasions filed claims and received reimbursement for duty travel in business class while he had in fact travelled in economy class, pocketing the difference. [...] There is no evidence to support the complainant's contention that this fraud was condoned or approved by the Agency and [...] his suggestion that his fraudulent practice was widespread amongst other Agency personnel, which is likewise not supported by any evidence at all, is wholly irrelevant: even if all the Agency's officers had been defrauding it in the same manner as the complainant, that would constitute no excuse for him. Where several persons commit the same crime, the guilt of one is not lessened by that of the others."
Keywords:
conduct; evidence; fitness for international civil service; misconduct; official travel; practice; serious misconduct; travel expenses;
Judgment 1925
88th Session, 2000
International Atomic Energy Agency
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 6
Extract:
"There can be no doubt that theft by an official of an international organisation of goods belonging to that organisation constitutes serious misconduct which may warrant summary dismissal."
Keywords:
conduct; disciplinary measure; fitness for international civil service; misconduct; serious misconduct; staff member's duties; summary dismissal; termination of employment;
Judgment 1878
87th Session, 1999
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 30
Extract:
The complainant called her supervisor a fascist while giving the nazi salute. She was dismissed summarily. "In the Tribunal's view, while the complainant's conduct was not such as to be expected from an international civil servant, nevertheless it was not so serious as to warrant summary dismissal. Her words were intemperate, spoken in the heat of the moment to a superior. That is unacceptable. There was an insulting gesture used twice which was particularly hurtful to [her supervisor], a German. Again, that is unacceptable. But on the other hand an apology was offered the same evening and again the next morning and a written acceptance was generously given by [the supervisor]. In the opinion of the Tribunal qualifying the incident as serious misconduct justifying summary dismissal would be a clearly mistaken conclusion to draw from the facts. Therefore, the disciplinary measure imposed was so disproportionate as to amount to a mistake of law."
Keywords:
conduct; disciplinary measure; fitness for international civil service; mistaken conclusion; proportionality; serious misconduct; staff member's duties; summary dismissal; supervisor; termination of employment; working relations;
Judgment 1831
86th Session, 1999
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 13
Extract:
The complainant was summarily dismissed from the organization for serious misconduct. "The complainant argues that the severity of the sanction imposed was disproportionate to the alleged misconduct. Given the evidence of deep-rooted fraud and corruption in the office for which he was responsible, the misconduct was serious and the sanction fully justified."
Keywords:
conduct; disciplinary measure; fitness for international civil service; misconduct; proportionality; serious misconduct; staff member's duties; summary dismissal; termination of employment;
Judgment 1828
86th Session, 1999
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 12
Extract:
"Even though the amount at stake was not large, an intent to defraud the organization is a most serious offence. The organization may expect the highest standards of integrity from its staff; it could not possibly just overlook the fraud; and there was nothing disproportionate about dismissing [the complainant] for the misconduct she had committed."
Keywords:
conduct; disciplinary measure; fitness for international civil service; misconduct; proportionality; serious misconduct; staff member's duties; summary dismissal; termination of employment;
Judgment 1764
85th Session, 1998
International Atomic Energy Agency
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 14
Extract:
The complainant is accused of having cheated the Organisation by falsifying airline tickets intended for official travel. "He makes out that [...] there was no express ban on what he did. Even if that were so, employees of the [Organisation] have a duty [...] 'to regulate their conduct with the interests of the [Organisation] only in view', and may not so behave as to harm its good name. There is no need for any express rule against cheating. Common decency, good faith and honest dealing lie at the root of relations between employer and employee. Whoever ventures to ignore that does so at his own peril."
Keywords:
conduct; disciplinary measure; disciplinary procedure; duty of loyalty; fitness for international civil service; honesty; international civil service principles; misconduct; organisation's interest; organisation's reputation; staff member's duties; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 1584
82nd Session, 1997
World Meteorological Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 9
Extract:
"Besides carrying out his allotted tasks an international civil servant has a duty to show such dignity of behaviour as not to harm the good name that the organisation must enjoy if it is to do its job properly. He must in particular abide by the law and respect the public order of the host State or of any other country it may assign him to."
Keywords:
conduct; fitness for international civil service; organisation's reputation; staff member's duties;
Considerations 9 and 11
Extract:
The complainant failed time and again to meet his financial obligations - in particular the payment of alimony to his family - disobeyed the judicial and administrative authorities of the host country and received several prison sentences. The permanent mission of the host country and his creditors approached the Organization many times. "In behaving as he did he obviously showed scant regard for his duties as an international civil servant and betrayed the Organization's trust. It was only reasonable that the WMO should consider that his conduct precluded keeping him on." There was no breach of the rule of proportionality.
Keywords:
conduct; disciplinary measure; fitness for international civil service; misconduct; organisation's interest; organisation's reputation; outside activity; proportionality; staff member's duties; termination of employment;
Judgment 1501
81st Session, 1996
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
"The proper performance of his mission by an international civil servant requires him to avoid such infringement of the ethical rules of the host country as may hamper or prevent the discharge of duty." The complainant's breach of those rules warranted transfer to Headquarters.
Keywords:
conduct; duty station; field; fitness for international civil service; headquarters; official; outside activity; staff member's duties; transfer;
Judgment 1405
78th Session, 1995
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 3
Extract:
The complainant was charged with unsuitability for the international civil service and the Organization decided not to renew his appointment. "The WHO's reasons for not renewing his appointment might have warranted disciplinary proceedings [...]. Though in no way bound to take disciplinary action against him, it was of course free to take into account any evidence of behaviour that led it to believe - as it does - that he was unfit for international service."
Keywords:
conduct; contract; disciplinary procedure; fitness for international civil service; grounds; non-renewal of contract; organisation's interest; staff member's duties;
Judgment 1381
78th Session, 1995
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 19-20
Extract:
"As to his suitability for the international civil service, the flow of documents between him and his supervisors on matters which could easily have been dealt with by discussion and dialogue shows a deterioration in his relationswith others at work, and for that he was at least partly to blame. The many notes for the record also indicate some lack of mutual respect and trust. He got a written reprimand [...] for ignoring normal channels of communication and for threatening to ask [his government] to make an official request to the organization, but even that did not deter him. His conduct fell below the standards expected of an international civil servant. The organization was justified in deciding not to renew the complainant's appointment."
Keywords:
censure; conduct; contract; disciplinary measure; fitness for international civil service; fixed-term; non-renewal of contract; serious misconduct; working relations;
Judgment 1312
76th Session, 1994
International Atomic Energy Agency
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 14
Extract:
The complainant started divorce proceedings and was charged with acting against "law and morals" in his home country and was held there against his will. He was unable to return to his duty station at the end of his home leave and the Agency decided not to renew his appointment. "Circumstances relating to an official's private life - even though they may prompt civil or penal proceedings - are relevant in the area of administration only insofar as they may affect his performance of official duties."
Keywords:
conduct; contract; fitness for international civil service; fixed-term; municipal court; non-renewal of contract; outside activity; staff member's duties;
Judgment 1128
71st Session, 1991
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 6
Extract:
Two police reports show that the complainant was held in disfavour by the local authorities at two duty stations. As a result his appointment was not renewed. "On the evidence the Tribunal is satisfied not only that the Organization's doubts about the complainant were legitimate but also that it was free to conclude that he was unsuitable for future assignments and, more particularly, to fear that, if granted any further assignment, he might not, as was his duty under [Regulation] 301.014, behave 'in a manner befitting [his] status' as an international civil servant and with proper 'reserve and tact'."
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: FAO STAFF REGULATION 301.014
Keywords:
conduct; contract; duty of discretion; fitness for international civil service; fixed-term; non-renewal of contract; staff member's duties;
Judgment 1070
70th Session, 1991
International Telecommunication Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7, Summary
Extract:
The complainant submitted a claim for medical expenses incurred by his former wife which another insurance scheme had already met. He submits that he bore no responsibility for the error and acted in good faith. The Tribunal holds that as he knew that his former wife was covered under another health scheme he should have made sure that it had not previously refunded her expenses. The complainant's "conduct argues, to say the least, a degree of laxity quite inadmissible in an international civil servant in that he wilfully ran a substantial and unreasonable risk, the foreseeable outcome being the defrauding of the fund. He has only himself to blame for the consequences of his own oversight."
Keywords:
complainant; fitness for international civil service; good faith; health insurance; insurance; medical expenses; misrepresentation; negligence; request by a party; serious misconduct; staff member's duties;
Judgment 1061
70th Session, 1991
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 3
Extract:
"Freedom of speech must be protected particularly for officers of a staff association, so that they are not hampered in their task of representing the membership when in dispute with the administration. But there are limits on such freedom. A staff representative's public statements must not impair the dignity of the international civil service: indeed he is under a special obligation not to abuse his rights by using expressions or resorting to behaviour incompatible with the decorum appropriate to his status both as an international civil servant and as an elected staff representative." (Vide Judgments 87 and 911.)
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 87, 911
Keywords:
conduct; duty of discretion; fitness for international civil service; freedom of speech; staff member's duties; staff representative; staff union;
Judgment 956
66th Session, 1989
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 3
Extract:
"The Tribunal is satisfied that it was open to the Director-General to come to the view that what the complainant had done [import a firearm] was, to quote the letter of 14 May 1986, 'harmful to the FAO's good name in the host country' and, being behaviour unworthy of an international civil servant, had been contrary to Staff Regulation 301.014.
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: FAO STAFF REGULATION 301.014
Keywords:
conduct; contract; discretion; fitness for international civil service; fixed-term; misconduct; non-renewal of contract; organisation's reputation;
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