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Judgment 1404
78th Session, 1995
World Health Organization
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FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 8
Extract:
The complainant appealed to the Headquarters Appeals Board before the Regional Board had issued its report. "The complainant's own behaviour affected the regional proceedings and made for delay in the Regional Board's report and recommendation to the Regional Director. Not to be ignored either is the effect of the change in membership, which fell within the time allotted for hearing the case. On the evidence the complainant has failed to show that the Board did not intend to report within a reasonable time."
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; composition of the internal appeals body; delay; internal appeal; internal appeals body; procedure before the tribunal; reasonable time; time limit;
Judgment 1390
78th Session, 1995
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 16
Extract:
"As for the application for a stay of proceedings, Article 10(3) of the Rules says that 'the Tribunal [...] shall rule on an application by either party for a stay of proceedings'". The Tribunal holds that no stay of proceedings is warranted in this case. Whatever changes may be made in the procedure for filling vacant posts, the complaint must be reviewed in the light of the rules in force at the material time. Once the proceedings have begun, the Tribunal is bound to reach a decision as promptly as possible and will not stay the proceedings pending possible changes in the rules."
Reference(s)
ILOAT reference: ARTICLE 10(3) OF THE RULES
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; applicable law; closure of written proceedings; competition cancelled; iloat statute; order of suspension; procedure before the tribunal; refusal; staff regulations and rules; submissions;
Judgment 1370
77th Session, 1994
International Telecommunication Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 8
Extract:
The complainant pleads that he had been promoted from grade G.7 to P.2 "even though he was drawing the post allowance. It is immaterial whether or not the conditions in which he was granted the allowance met the requirements of Regulation 3.8: suffice it to observe that he acquiesced and amply reaped the benefit for most of the period during which he received the allowance. So the Tribunal cannot allow his plea that he was promoted."
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ITU STAFF REGULATION 3.8
Keywords:
acceptance; amendment to the rules; condition; general service category; grade; professional category; promotion; special post allowance; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 1368
77th Session, 1994
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 8
Extract:
"The plea of breach of acquired rights is receivable and in ruling on it the Tribunal may take into account any issues of fact it deems material." Citing Judgment 986 [...], the Tribunal holds that "an employee may properly plead a decline in his situation tantamount to impairment of the essential and fundamental terms of his employment, even if the decline has been gradual and due to an accumulation of decisions which are no longer open to challenge and none of which, taken singly, would have been declared unlawful."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 986
Keywords:
acquired right; amendment to the rules; breach; case law; cumulative decisions; flaw; judicial review; receivability of the complaint; terms of appointment;
Judgment 1364
77th Session, 1994
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
In his first complaint the complainant is seeking "a retroactive benefit that would be at variance with the terms of his original appointment, to which he consented and which designated Varese as his home. The EPO is therefore right to refuse any change in that determination as to the past."
Keywords:
acceptance; amendment to the rules; appointment; decision; home; home leave; non-retroactivity; refusal; request by a party;
Consideration 11
Extract:
Vide Judgment 1324, consideration 9.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 1324
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; equal treatment; home; home leave; nationality; official; refusal; request by a party;
Judgment 1363
77th Session, 1994
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 24 to 26
Extract:
The complainant submits that while on leave without pay he was free to earn money without being bound by any professional obligations as an employee of the EPO. "The plea fails. An official who is granted leave for any reason remains bound by all professional obligations but one - for that is what leave means - the performance of duties [...] so the complainant must be judged on his behaviour throughout the period of his employment in the organisation, no diminution whatever of his obligations being admissible while he was on leave."
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; organisation's interest; staff member's duties; unpaid leave;
Judgment 1358
77th Session, 1994
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
The organisation brought in reforms which involved "reassignment of staff together with their posts in the context of a new structure but without the creation of any new posts. The reforms may have altered the position of some in the hierarchy and their duties but, being brought about by transfer of their posts, did not affect their status under the Staff Regulations."
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; assignment; lack of injury; organisation's interest; post description; staff regulations and rules; transfer;
Judgment 1349
77th Session, 1994
European Southern Observatory
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 11
Extract:
"An organisation enjoys wide discretion in deciding whether or not to renew a fixed-term appointment and a fortiori whether to convert it into an indefinite one. The exercise of such discretion is subject to review, but only to limited review, the Tribunal respecting the organisation's freedom to determine its own requirements and the career prospects of staff."
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; contract; discretion; duration of appointment; fixed-term; judicial review; limits; non-renewal of contract; organisation's interest; permanent appointment;
Judgment 1347
77th Session, 1994
Pan American Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 15-16
Extract:
The complainant received a study allowance for her tuition costs in an amount greater than she was entitled to. The PAHO asked her to repay the overpayment and took away some of her responsibilities. She regards the removal of certain responsibilities as unwarranted disciplinary action. But "the PAHO was entitled to take administrative action to prevent lapses in the future. Changing her duties for those reasons may not be regarded as a disciplinary measure either."
Keywords:
allowance; amendment to the rules; disciplinary measure; education expenses; organisation's interest; post description; recovery of overpayment; unjust enrichment;
Judgment 1344
77th Session, 1994
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 15
Extract:
The complainant learned that reports bearing his signature had been changed without his knowledge. The EPO gives "pressure of time" as a reason for not consulting him. "Whatever the truth of the matter may be, even if the EPO was short of time it was not justified in changing his reports, in not even discussing the changes with him afterwards nor giving him an opportunity to comment on any amendments, and in publishing them under his name."
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; injury; organisation's duties; report; right to reply; staff member's interest;
Judgment 1343
77th Session, 1994
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 9
Extract:
The complainant was transferred to a new post. He alleges that the transfer was unlawful, his new duties being at a lower level than those he had formally discharged. "Whether the post is 'commensurate' with his former post and grade depends on an objective test, namely the level of his duties. He has failed to satisfy the Tribunal that their level is not in keeping with his grade, which was the same after as before transfer."
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; criteria; grade; lack of injury; post; post description; transfer;
Judgment 1342
77th Session, 1994
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 14
Extract:
The Organization decided not to extend the complainant's appointment. It submits that the project to which it assigned him was one of limited duration and that there was accordingly no need to apply the reduction-in-force procedure. "Here the project was not one of limited duration. First, the WHO has not produced any document which established the complainant's post or prescribed its duration. Moreover, even assuming that it might have begun as a post of limited duration, the several extensions of it show that it had become one of indefinite duration and the complainant was therefore entitled on the abolition of it to have the reduction-in-force procedure applied."
Keywords:
abolition of post; amendment to the rules; creation of post; due process; fixed-term; legitimate expectation; moral injury; permanent appointment; post; post held by the complainant; procedure before the tribunal; staff reduction;
Judgment 1334
76th Session, 1994
International Atomic Energy Agency
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 22
Extract:
"The purpose of the case law [on acquired rights] is to safeguard the substance of the staff's pay and pensions in the event of amendments to the material rules. The supplementary benefits were intended to afford compensation for constraints that at the time were not part of the complainant's ordinary duties." There was no breach of acquired rights.
Keywords:
acquired right; amendment to the rules; base salary; case law; compensatory allowance; discontinuance; pension; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 1330
76th Session, 1994
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 8
Extract:
The complainants regard as a breach of their acquired rights an amendment to the Staff Regulations whose effect is to confer on the United Nations Administrative Tribunal competence for disputes concerning the reckoning of pensionable remuneration. But the Tribunal "cannot treat an amendment to the rules on competence as 'loss of an essential legal safeguard'. After all, with the new text competence goes to an independent and impartial international administrative tribunal."
Keywords:
acquired right; amendment to the rules; competence; competence of tribunal; pension; pensionable remuneration; right of appeal; safeguard; staff regulations and rules; unat;
Consideration 9
Extract:
A "mistaken" contention of the complainants is "that any amendment of a text that in itself confers an acquired right [...] is bound to amount to impairment of that right. [...] No provision of the Staff Regulations is in itself inviolate. [...] Only when an amendment to earlier provisions has altered some essential and fundamental term of appointment will there be breach of an acquired right."
Keywords:
acquired right; amendment to the rules; staff regulations and rules; terms of appointment;
Judgment 1324
76th Session, 1994
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 5
Extract:
See Judgment 525, consideration 4.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 525
Keywords:
abuse of power; amendment to the rules; decision-maker; discretion; disregard of essential fact; exception; executive head; formal flaw; home; home leave; judicial review; mistake of fact; mistaken conclusion; misuse of authority; procedural flaw;
Consideration 9
Extract:
The complainant is seeking a change, to which the organisation is opposed, in the designation it originally made upon recruitment of his official home. "It would offend against the principle of equal treatment [for a new] recruit who has strong ties with the country of one of two nationalities [to] get the automatic designation of a place in that country as 'home', while in identical circumstances another employee is refused designation of his home in that country simply because he is seeking review of a determination already made."
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; complainant; equal treatment; home; home leave; nationality; place of origin;
Judgment 1303
76th Session, 1994
International Telecommunication Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
The complainant's objection to the amount of pay he is getting rests on principles of law applicable within the United Nations family of organisations. He submits that such principles take priority over his organization's own staff rules. He wants the Tribunal to order the review of an ITU rule on pay policy. "The claim [...] must fail because the Tribunal does not have competence to make such an order."
Reference(s)
ILOAT reference: ARTICLE II(5) OF THE STATUTE
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; competence of tribunal; coordinated organisations; iloat statute; international civil service principles; salary; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 1241
74th Session, 1993
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 19
Extract:
The complainants object to the way of reckoning their premiums "the change the complainants object to is part of wider reforms the WHO made to put the scheme on a sounder financial footing over the long term. The Organization is right to pursue that aim by all suitable means at its disposal, and they include measures to ensure that, in keeping with the notion of mutual aid, everyone bears a fair share of costs."
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; budgetary reasons; contributions; illness; insurance; scale; social solidarity; written rule;
Consideration 24
Extract:
The complainants object to the way of reckoning their premiums under the organization's health insurance scheme in accordance with an amendment to its rules. They allege breach of acquired rights. "The organization has not discriminated against them: far from it. Its purpose was to remove an unfair advantage the rules used to confer on them. Such corrective action may not be treated as breach of acquired rights even if the advantage was enjoyed for a long time."
Keywords:
acquired right; amendment to the rules; budgetary reasons; contributions; equal treatment; health insurance; illness; insurance; social solidarity; written rule;
Judgment 1226
74th Session, 1993
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 3, 7 and 8
Extract:
The complainants challenge decisions by the Director-General confirming the abolition of free after-service medical cover. They allege breach of acquired rights and contend that the FAO's financial position did not warrant such measures. "The Tribunal will not compare the options open to the FAO in the area of financial policy since it might ignore the realities that the FAO has to take into account. All the Tribunal need do is acknowledge that it was because of the financial plight of the scheme and its own that the organization decided to do away with free coverage for pensioners. The change does cause the complainants detriment. [...] But that alone does not amount to breach of any acquired right. First, the effect of the change was to put all fao pensioners on a par. [...] Secondly, there were transitional measures to lighten the impact of the change [...]. Since the change was made by way of rules, and because of the reasons for it, the complainants have suffered no breach of any acquired right despite the injury to their interests."
Keywords:
acquired right; amendment to the rules; budgetary reasons; discretion; grounds; health insurance; insurance; judicial review; limits; medical expenses; organisation's interest; social benefits; staff regulations and rules;
Consideration 3
Extract:
Vide Judgment 832.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 832
Keywords:
acquired right; amendment to the rules; breach; budgetary reasons; case law; cause; contract; criteria; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 1221
74th Session, 1993
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
The complainant seeks the redefinition of her duties and, subsidiarily, transfer or secondment. "The administration never forced the complainant to perform duties other than those in the description of her post. It is bound neither to amend the duties of staff to suit their own wishes nor [...] to grant their applications for transfer, provided that its decisions are not prompted by considerations irrelevant to its own interests."
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; assignment; discretion; organisation's duties; organisation's interest; post; post description; request by a party; request for transfer; secondment;
Judgment 1217
74th Session, 1993
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 14
Extract:
The complainant objects to CERN's refusal to change his home from that of which he is a citizen to another country. "The original determination of the home station on recruitment and any later change are incontrovertibly at the discretion of CERN, which has to give weight to the various criteria the Staff Regulations set. For the sake of sound management [...] the organization may set guidelines on the matter. So there can be no objection to its consistent policy of determining the staff member's home, barring evidence to the contrary, in his own country and allowing later change to some other country only where some change in circumstances so warrants."
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; criteria; decision; discretion; home; home leave; judicial review; nationality; organisation's interest; place of origin; refusal;
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