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Judgment 1924
88th Session, 2000
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
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Consideration 10
Extract:
The complainant accepted a settlement proposal by the organization within the imposed deadline. However, four months went by and he heard nothing more on the subject so he wrote to inquire when the settlement would be effected. One month later he was informed that the organization had learned that certain costs would be higher than it had foreseen, therefore, it preferred that the dispute be decided by the Administrative Tribunal. "Efforts made for the resolution of disputes are to be encouraged and the principle of good faith requires that if an offer is accepted the other party cannot then withdraw from it. The offer [...] should, accordingly, be implemented."
Keywords:
acceptance; good faith; intention of parties; offer; offer withdrawn; organisation's duties; promise; settlement out of court; staff member's interest;
Judgment 1804
86th Session, 1999
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 12-14
Extract:
The promotion of Mr C., presented as the fulfilment of a promise made to him on recruitment, gave rise to a decision adopted on 7 December 1994. "Only that decision was notified to the staff. So the complainants, who were unaware of the promise, were in good faith in challenging the promotion on the grounds that it was in breach of the Rule it actually cited. So they were right in saying that Mr C. had been promoted to A4 even though he did not fully qualify under the [relevant] rules [...]. Because of the unusual circumstances in which Mr C. was promoted the complainants were also right to challenge the decision: the [Organization] had on the face of it failed to observe the general principle of equal treatment because in promoting Mr C. it did not abide by the requirements of the Service Regulations or by the criteria for promotion to which the complainants were themselves subject. The conclusion is that the complainants did suffer moral injury and each of them is entitled under that head to [compensation]".
Keywords:
appointment; breach; cause of action; condition; decision; equal treatment; general principle; good faith; grade; injury; moral injury; promise; promotion; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 1781
85th Session, 1998
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 13
Extract:
The complainant submitted that the Director-General had verbally promised him three step increments at his grade. On the evidence there is no denial by the Director-General on that point. The Tribunal holds that: "While the Director-General may communicate within the Organization through others acting on his behalf, the best evidence available must be offered in proceedings before the Tribunal. In this instance it would have been direct denial by the Director-General himself."
Keywords:
disclosure of evidence; evidence; executive head; lack of evidence; promise;
Judgment 1667
83rd Session, 1997
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 6
Extract:
The complainant relies on an alleged promise of promotion which took the form of an announcement in the EPO gazette. "The issue is one of good faith. There is indeed no question of imputing to the EPO any promise to grant to a seconded employee who proved his mettle as liaison officer an automatic promotion in grade or appointment to some more covetable post. Such promise would have been untoward and presumably incompatible with any properly strict observance of the Service Regulations."
Keywords:
condition; promise; promotion; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 1641
83rd Session, 1997
World Intellectual Property Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7(c)
Extract:
"Though an organisation must observe acquired rights and keep binding promises, it has broad discretion to amend its Staff Regulations either directly or by incorporating the rules of the common system. In the present economic context and if, like many others, it is in financial straits, it may want to cut costs. There is nothing wrong with the common system's having rules that enable it to do so."
Keywords:
acquired right; amendment to the rules; budgetary reasons; coordinated organisations; discretion; limits; organisation; organisation's duties; organisation's interest; promise; purpose; reduction of salary; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 1560
81st Session, 1996
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 9
Extract:
As was held in Judgment 782 [...] under 1, good faith requires an organisation to keep a promise subject to certain conditions: the promise must be substantive, i.e. to act or not to act or to allow; it must come from someone competent or deemed competent to make it; the breach of it must cause injury to the person who relies on it; and the position in law must not have altered between the date of the promise and the date at which fulfilment is due. It does not matter, however, what form the promise takes.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 782
Keywords:
promise;
Judgment 1481
80th Session, 1996
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
The ILO had told the complainant upon recruitment that he could expect to receive an appointment without limit of time in five or six years. The Tribunal holds "that the conditions that precedent requires are met. The Director-General was wrong to refuse him an appointment without limit of time and to grant him only two years".
Keywords:
case law; criteria; duration of appointment; permanent appointment; promise; terms of appointment;
Judgment 1278
75th Session, 1993
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 12
Extract:
"In Judgment 782 [...] the Tribunal stated the circumstances in which it would enforce a promise by an international organisation to a staff member. The promise must be substantive, i.e. to act, or not to act, or to allow; it must come from someone who is competent or deemed competent to make it; the breach of it must cause injury to the person who relies on it; and the position in law must not have altered between the date of the promise and the date at which fulfilment is due. It does not matter what form the promise takes: it may be written or oral, express or implied."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 782
Keywords:
case law; competence; condition; decision-maker; duty of care; good faith; organisation's duties; promise;
Consideration 14
Extract:
"The WHO may not absolve itself from liability for keeping a promise by pointing to the provision that there shall be no expectation of renewal."
Keywords:
contract; extension of contract; fixed-term; organisation's duties; promise; right; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 1090
70th Session, 1991
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
The complainant says that the Executive Director of the World Food Programme assured him in an interview that he could be sent to Tunisia for one term. The evidence shows that the organization took ten months before making its position clear without however denying outright that the Executive Director had made such a promise. The complainant therefore had good reason to expect up to then that he would get what he wanted. The FAO's behaviour could but cause the complainant at least moral injury for which he is entitled to redress.
Keywords:
injury; legitimate expectation; moral injury; promise; transfer;
Judgment 1079
70th Session, 1991
International Criminal Police Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
Interpol's Staff Regulations and Staff Rules provide staff members guarantees against the loss of grade or changes to their conditions of service in connection with the headquarters move. The organization having failed to comply in full with those obligations, as a result of which the complainant turned down the offer of transfer, the Tribunal refers the complainant to Interpol to determine the compensation to which he is entitled.
Keywords:
downgrading; promise; refusal; staff regulations and rules; terminal entitlements; terms of appointment; transfer; transfer of headquarters;
Judgment 1054
69th Session, 1990
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 23
Extract:
"In these cases the burden of CERN's obligation was at its lightest since the benefits [the complainants were denied] of early departure were conferred ex gratia and the purpose of the scheme was to meet a need for structural reform which the organization is the sole judge of. Yet it did not discharge even that minimal obligation. And its omission is compounded by its failure to keep its explicit promise to give every unsuccessful applicant a written explanation".
Keywords:
duty to substantiate decision; early retirement; grounds; material damages; promise; refusal;
Judgment 1044
69th Session, 1990
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
The complainant objects to the non-renewal of her appointment. She alleges that upon recruitment she was given assurances that her fixed-term appointment would be converted into a continuing one on the date of expiry. But there is no evidence to suggest that she was given any such assurance.
Keywords:
contract; evidence; fixed-term; lack of evidence; non-renewal of contract; permanent appointment; promise;
Judgment 1040
69th Session, 1990
Pan American Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 5
Extract:
"The complainant alleges that the organization made him a promise of training in [word-processing]." For the Tribunal to "enforce a promise by an international organisation to one of its employees", the conditions that have to be met include "that the promise should be substantive and [...] that it should have come from someone competent or deemed competent to make it." In the instant case the making of a substantive promise is not proven.
Keywords:
competence; condition; evidence; promise; training;
Judgment 1024
69th Session, 1990
International Criminal Police Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
Interpol's Staff Regulations and Staff Rules provide staff members guarantees against the loss of grade or changes to their conditions of service in connection with the headquarters move. The organization having failed to comply in full with those obligations, as a result of which the complainants turned down the offer of transfer, the Tribunal refers the complainants to interpol to determine the compensation to which they are entitled.
Keywords:
downgrading; promise; refusal; staff regulations and rules; terminal entitlements; terms of appointment; transfer; transfer of headquarters;
Judgment 1023
69th Session, 1990
International Criminal Police Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
See Judgment 1024.
Keywords:
downgrading; promise; refusal; staff regulations and rules; terminal entitlements; terms of appointment; transfer; transfer of headquarters;
Judgment 956
66th Session, 1989
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 5
Extract:
"The complainant has failed to show that by word or deed the organization led him to expect any extension, let alone that it made him a firm promise of one. None of the letters to him extending his appointment may be construed as a promise or commitment".
Keywords:
contract; evidence; extension of contract; lack of evidence; promise;
Judgment 892
64th Session, 1988
International Office of Epizootics
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
The complainant challenges the non-renewal of her contract. She alleges breach of an oral promise of automatic renewal. But she offers no proof of the allegation. "Even supposing she were right and the head of personnel had said that fixed-term appointments were automatically renewed, there would not necessarily be a binding rule but just a common practice which would neither require the Director General to employ her nor confer on her any right to renewal."
Keywords:
contract; evidence; extension of contract; fixed-term; lack of evidence; non-renewal of contract; organisation's duties; practice; promise;
Judgment 803
61st Session, 1987
International Computing Centre (World Health Organization)
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
According to the Tribunal's case law, a contract is concluded only if both parties have shown contractual intent, all the essential terms have been agreed on and all that may remain is a formality requiring no further agreement. The Tribunal holds that in this case those conditions are not fulfilled. The complainant neither accepted the work plan put to him by the defending organisation nor proved that promises were made to him.
Keywords:
case law; condition; contract; definition; iloat; intention of parties; lack of evidence; promise;
Judgment 782
60th Session, 1986
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 1
Extract:
The right to fulfillment of a promise "is conditional. One condition is that the promise should be substantive, i.e. to act, or not to act, or to allow. Others are that it should come from someone who is competent or deemed competent to make it; that breach should cause injury to him who relies on it; and that the position in law should not have altered between the date of the promise and the date on which fulfillment is due. It does not matter what form the promise takes: it may be written or oral, express or implied."
Keywords:
condition; contract; formal requirements; permanent appointment; promise;
Judgment 703
57th Session, 1985
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
"The alleged promises were not in writing, the FAO denies they were ever made and it is not proved that they were. Besides, to be enforceable, they would have had to be agreed to by both organisations".
Keywords:
condition; contract; extension of contract; fixed-term; non-renewal of contract; promise; secondment;
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