Judgment No. 3579

• Organization: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• Date: 03.02.2016
• Original: French
• Judges: Rouiller, Barbagallo, Hansen
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

1. UNESCO shall pay the complainant moral damages in the amount of 3,000 euros.
2. It shall also pay him 1,000 euros in costs.
3. All other claims are dismissed.

Summary

The complainant complains of a breach of his “procedural rights” before the Appeals Board, the discontinuation of two elements of his mobility allowance and harassment.

Judgment keywords

Keywords

complaint allowed; breach; procedural flaw; right; harassment

Consideration 4

Extract:

[T]he Tribunal finds that, by failing to convene a hearing within the prescribed two-month time limit, the Organization unlawfully disregarded the provisions of paragraph 14 of the Statutes of the Appeals Board, thereby breaching the principle of tu patere legem quam ipse fecisti, which requires every authority to abide by the rules which it has itself established (see, for example, Judgment 3357, under 20).

Reference(s)

ILOAT Judgment(s): 3357

Keywords

organisation's duties; patere legem