Judgment No. 4666
Decision
The complaint is dismissed.
Summary
The complainant challenges his negative performance assessment and the termination of his fixed-term appointment for unsatisfactory service.
Judgment keywords
Keywords
performance evaluation; complaint dismissed
Consideration 4
Extract:
[T]he Tribunal recalls first of all that, under its settled case law, the assessment of an employee’s merit during a specified period involves a value judgement and it cannot substitute its own opinion for the assessment made by the competent bodies of the qualities, performance and conduct of the person concerned. The Tribunal will interfere only if a decision was taken in breach of applicable rules on competence, form or procedure, if it was based on a mistake of law or of fact, if an essential fact was overlooked, if a clearly mistaken conclusion was drawn from the facts, or if there was abuse of authority (see, for example, Judgments 4543, consideration 4, 4169, consideration 7, 4010, consideration 5, 3268, consideration 9, and 3039, consideration 7).
An examination of a staff member’s assessment report before taking any decision not to renew that person’s contract on the basis of unsatisfactory performance is a fundamental obligation, non-compliance with which constitutes a procedural flaw that has the effect of an essential fact being overlooked (see, in particular, Judgments 2992, consideration 18, 2096, consideration 13, and the case law cited therein).
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 2096, 2992, 3039, 3268, 4010, 4169, 4543
Keywords
non-renewal of contract; unsatisfactory service; performance evaluation
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