Judgment No. 420
Decision
THE COMPLAINT IS DISMISSED.
Considerations 1 and 6
Extract:
In its Judgment No. 274, the Tribunal remitted the matter to the Director-General for reconsideration so that he might, if he thought fit, reprimand the complainant for having acted in such a manner as to lead to an interruption of the proceedings of the Council in committee. "The Tribunal would not have thought it right to dictate to the Director-General the exact form the reprimand should take, nor did the Tribunal in fact do so. The terms of the letter [...] do not exceed what is proper, and in particular do not amount to a censure as distinct from a reprimand."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 274
Keywords
case sent back to organisation; reprimand
Consideration 4
Extract:
A sanction administered by the Director-General ought to be signed by him personally. In the present case a reprimand was signed by the Deputy Director-General, who as an interested party in the matter. "When [...] a reprimand is being administered by the Director-General himself and when [...] there is no exceptional urgency about its despatch, it is preferable that the document, which is to form part of the staff member's record, should bear the Director-General's signature. But the Tribunal does not consider that the form of signature invalidates the document."
Keywords
formal requirements; disciplinary measure; reprimand; formal flaw
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