Judgment No. 314

• Organization: International Patent Institute (IPI)
• Date: 21.11.1977
• Original: Français
• Judges: Letourneur, Grisel, Devlin
• Full judgment text (anglais) - Texte intégral du jugement

Decision

THE COMPLAINT AND THE APPLICATIONS TO INTERVENE ARE DISMISSED.

Considerations

Extract:

"According to a principle of international public service, salary is generally payable only for services rendered, and so the [organisation] was right to refuse to pay a staff member who went on strike for the period in which he did not work."

Keywords

international civil service principles; salary; deduction; entitlement for service rendered; right to strike; strike

Considerations

Extract:

The interveners "have an interest in the quashing of the impugned decision [concerning the with holding of salary for strike action] and their applications are therefore receivable."

Keywords

intervention; receivability of the complaint; salary; deduction; right to strike; strike