Judgment No. 1677

• Organization: International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• Date: 29.01.1998
• Original: French
• Judges: Ba, Gentot, Egli
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

1. The Secretary-General's decision of 13 December 1996 is quashed.
2. The ITU shall pay the complainant the special post allowance at grade P.4 as from 1 August 1995 in accordance with Staff Regulation 3.8 a).
3. It shall pay him 4,000 Swiss francs in costs.

Consideration 14

Extract:

ITU Staff Regulation 3.8 (a) lays down two conditions regarding the payment of a special post allowance: "one is that there must be a post at a higher grade than the claimant's; the other that the claimant must be performing the duties of the post. The Union adds a third condition, that the post description must be recent. But it is wrong: there is neither a written rule nor any particular basic principle that lays down that requirement."

Reference(s)

Organization rules reference: ITU STAFF REGULATION 3.8 (A)

Keywords

organisation's duties; staff regulations and rules; grade; post description; special post allowance; condition