Abolition of post (379, 380, 381, 382, 649, 383,-666)
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Judgment 2092
92nd Session, 2002
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
"One of the tests which the Tribunal has developed over the years to determine whether or not a post has truly been abolished is to ask whether or not the 'abolition' has resulted in a reduction of the number of staff in the affected department. (See, for example, Judgment 139 [...].) If it has not, the presumption is that all that has taken place is a redistribution of functions among existing posts [...] and not the abolition of one or more posts".
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 139
Keywords:
abolition of post; case law; consequence; criteria; definition; iloat; judicial review; post; reorganisation; staff reduction;
Judgment 2090
92nd Session, 2002
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 6-7
Extract:
Because of restructuring the complainant's post was abolished and his appointment was terminated. "There is obviously nothing unlawful about restructuring per se and it will always mean regrouping duties and sacrificing posts. But in carrying out such an exercise, an organisation has a duty to observe the rights and safeguards of its staff [...] The [organisation]'s first duty in addressing the consequences of [the complainant's] redundancy was to offer him a transfer to another suitable post. Only if that proved impossible should it [pay him the indemnity payable in the event of redundancy]. But there is no evidence that the [organisation] did its utmost to find him a post which matched his skills and level of responsibility."
Keywords:
abolition of post; contract; discontinuance; post held by the complainant; reorganisation;
Judgment 1981
89th Session, 2000
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 9
Extract:
The complainant was placed on leave without pay. Although she was included in a reduction-in-force exercise, she was not successful and she was paid damages in lieu of reinstatement. She argues that her termination indemnity should be recalculated to take into account the period of leave. "The issue is therefore whether service time continued to accrue. the answer is that it did not accrue, since the organization opted to pay damages in lieu of reinstatement. As there was no reinstatement, service time did not occur."
Keywords:
abolition of post; compensation; leave; reinstatement; separation from service; terminal entitlements; unpaid leave;
Judgment 1961
89th Session, 2000
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 5
Extract:
The Tribunal recalls that "in Judgment 139 [...] the Tribunal made it clear that it did not consider the assignment of the duties of an abolished post to other staff members as an indication that there had been an abuse of authority, provided that the evidence showed that the number of staff members was in fact reduced." It affirms this case law.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 139
Keywords:
abolition of post; abuse of power; case law; condition; evidence; misuse of authority; staff reduction;
Judgment 1934
88th Session, 2000
International Telecommunication Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
The complainant was offered an exceptional separation package on the condition that he not appeal his separation and/or its terms and conditions. He accepted the same day. "There is no evidence that these commitments - which the complainant now appears to regret - were tainted by a fraudulent attitude or pressure from the [organisation]. The complainant accepted the terms and conditions of the settlement that he made with the organisation, some of which were very favourable, and he cannot challenge them now."
Keywords:
abolition of post; agreed termination; good faith; terminal entitlements; termination of employment; waiver of right of appeal;
Judgment 1854
87th Session, 1999
European Southern Observatory
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 15, 17 and 18
Extract:
The post of the complainant (employed on a permanent contract) was abolished and replaced by a new one of higher level, the functions of which however remained substantially similar to those of the previous post. "By changing the requirements [the organisation] manifested its desire to have those functions performed by a person with higher academic or professional qualifications, but it does not prove that the complainant, who had twenty-eight years of experience with the [organisation], was unable to perform them. [T]he complainant has [...] shown that, prima facie, the functions of the new post were substantially similar to his post, and within his capabilities [...] on the other hand, the [organisation] has failed to prove that the new post did have greater responsibilities; or that it was higher in grade than the old one; or that its greater responsibilities were recognised by way of higher remuneration. [I]n the circumstances, the Tribunal holds that there was no genuine suppression of the complainant's post, and that the termination of his contract was caused mainly by an unjustified loss of confidence in him by the administrator."
Keywords:
abolition of post; contract; grade; permanent appointment; post; professional experience; training;
Judgment 1787
86th Session, 1999
International Organization for Migration
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
"Although the abolition of his post did demand of the Organization efforts to place him suitably and at the right grade elsewhere, he had no right to preference for any particular post, the less so since others were in the same plight. He may object to the Organization's failure to let him have the transfer he wanted, but such failure does not make it unlawful for the organization to have appointed another official to the post he had applied for, provided at least that that official was qualified."
Keywords:
abolition of post; appointment; competition; condition; equal treatment; grade; organisation's duties; post; priority; qualifications; reassignment; right;
Judgment 1782
85th Session, 1998
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 11
Extract:
"What [Staff Rule 110.02 a) on abolition of posts and staff reduction] entitles staff members with permanent appointments to is preference to 'suitable posts in which their services can be effectively utilized', and that means posts not just at the same grade but even at a lower one. [...] The Advisory Group should have asked the complainant [who held grade G.7] at the outset whether she would accept a G.6 post. Because it failed to do so, it considered her for vacant posts at G.7 only and deprived her of the opportunity of being considered for G.6 vacancies." See also Judgment 346 [...].
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: UNIDO'S STAFF RULE 110.02 A)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 346
Keywords:
abolition of post; contract; duration of appointment; grade; organisation's duties; permanent appointment; post; priority; staff reduction; staff regulations and rules; vacancy;
Judgment 1729
84th Session, 1998
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 11-12
Extract:
"It is a fundamental requirement of any decision to abolish a post that there be objective grounds for it: see Judgment 1231 [...]. The same principles apply to a decision to change the source of funding for a position."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 1231
Keywords:
abolition of post; amendment to the rules; decision; duty to substantiate decision; grounds;
Judgment 1659
83rd Session, 1997
European Free Trade Association
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 12
Extract:
Having lost three out of seven members and having a "working budget that was but a fraction of what it had been before, it was therefore only reasonable for [EFTA] to consider overhauling the Secretariat and go ahead with the abolition of units and then of posts. [...] It was the EFTA Council of seven member States that resolved to wind up the Secretariat, pay off the permanent employees and let fixed-term appointments run out. It saw that as the only proper course because of political uncertainty and lack of money to pay the staff after 30 June 1995. The seven States also wanted to safeguard the freedom of the four remaining members to set up a smaller Secretariat which matched the smaller membership. There was no mistake of law in the Council's reasoning."
Keywords:
abolition of post; budgetary reasons; discretion; judicial review; member state; non-renewal of contract; organisation; reorganisation; separation from service; termination of employment;
Consideration 12
Extract:
The complainants "plead breach of Regulation 12.2(b) which confers priority for re-employment on permanent employees whose posts had to be abolished. But since all the posts were abolished the Association had no choice in the matter and nothing to offer the redundant staff but the opportunity of applying for jobs in the new Secretariat."
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: EFTA STAFF REGULATION 12.2(B)
Keywords:
abolition of post; competition; contract; exception; organisation's duties; permanent appointment; priority; reassignment; reorganisation; separation from service; staff regulations and rules; termination of employment;
Judgment 1643
83rd Session, 1997
Universal Postal Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 5
Extract:
It is true that the suspension of the unit in which the complainant was employed was based on a mistake about the date of expiry of her contract. But she was aware of the mistake and knew full well what she was doing when she accepted the impugned decision. "So she may not plead lack of consent."
Keywords:
abolition of post; acceptance; contract; date; decision; duration of appointment; lack of consent; secondment;
Judgment 1614
82nd Session, 1997
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 10
Extract:
The complainant's appointment was terminated after the Organisation abolished her post. Although the organisation knew it had a duty to look into possibilities of reassignment "it had not 'seriously' done so during the period of notice, as the rules required [as stated under Personnel Policies Manual Article 5.7.11(b)], or even afterwards. Indeed it has acknowledged by implication its failure to comply with that duty: why else offer her 'additional compensation' in relief? The plea succeeds and for that reason alone the impugned decision must be set aside."
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ARTICLE 5.7.11(B) OF IFAD PERSONNEL POLICIES MANUAL
Keywords:
abolition of post; compensatory allowance; organisation's duties; reassignment; staff regulations and rules; termination of employment;
Consideration 3
Extract:
"As circumstances change so must an organisation reform its structure, and that may mean doing away with posts. Even if abolition is not expressly provided for, no organisation can be required to abide for evermore by the same approach to what it has to do."
Keywords:
abolition of post; discretion; organisation; reorganisation;
Consideration 12
Extract:
"Contrary to what the complainant alleges, the reasons for abolishing her post were objective and had nothing to do with her own personality or performance. The decision cast no slight on her integrity and was no affront to her dignity. Her supervisors kept her informed orally and in writing about the progress of the reforms and about her own status. They thereby showed a wish to prepare her for the consequences and no bad faith may be imputed to them. The conclusion is that the defendant caused her no unnecessary or undue injury."
Keywords:
abolition of post; duty to inform; good faith; lack of injury; moral injury; organisation's duties; respect for dignity;
Judgment 1602
82nd Session, 1997
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
According to precedent "the right to priority of consideration that belongs to someone whose post has been abolished requires that any authority concerned with making the appointment must be aware of the right and carefully compare the professional profile of the staff member with that of any outside candidate."
Keywords:
abolition of post; organisation's duties; priority; qualifications; reassignment;
Judgment 1596
82nd Session, 1997
European Free Trade Association
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 25-26
Extract:
"The Tribunal is satisfied on the evidence that the Association calculated the extensions of the complainants' appointments so as to make the dates of expiry and of abolition of their posts coincide and to avoid paying them the [terminal] indemnities in accordance with Regulation 12.5(c). [...] EFTA was not free to manipulate renewal so as to avoid the payment of the indemnity where, if the normal pattern had been followed, the indemnity would have been payable. EFTA must therefore pay the complainants termination indemnities to be reckoned according to length of service as provided in Regulation 12.5."
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: EFTA STAFF REGULATION 12.5
Keywords:
abolition of post; contract; due process; extension of contract; separation from service; terminal entitlements;
Judgment 1553
81st Session, 1996
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 24
Extract:
UNESCO Staff Regulation 4.4 grants priority to serving staff for appointment to vacant posts. "Despite the unanimous recommendations by the senior personnel advisory boards and by the Appeals Board the Organization failed to give the complainant priority for vacant posts. It put the wrong question to its units and to its bureau of personnel. The right question was not whether there was a post that fitted her qualifications and experience but whether there was a post of which she was capable of fulfilling the duties competently. [...] No instructions went out that she should be given priority for any vacant posts. So the decision to terminate her services rested on a misinterpretation of Regulation 4.4 and so on a mistake of law. That decision must therefore be set aside".
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: UNESCO STAFF REGULATION 4.4
Keywords:
abolition of post; candidate; decision; internal candidate; interpretation; material damages; moral injury; organisation's duties; priority; qualifications; reassignment; reinstatement; staff regulations and rules; termination of employment; vacancy;
Judgment 1487
80th Session, 1996
World Tourism Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 8
Extract:
"The abolition of a post need not mean that the employee on it must go. [...] But here it is plain from the evidence [...] that the Secretary-General did look thoroughly into the possibilities of reassignment, but he found no suitable post because of the complainant's grade and because there were but few permanent posts, and even fewer that were vacant or likely to become so."
Keywords:
abolition of post; organisation's duties; reassignment; separation from service; termination of employment;
Judgment 1374
77th Session, 1994
Pan American Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 9
Extract:
"The PAHO's applying the wrong criteria to determine the 'priority groups' flaws the reduction-in-force procedure because it means that the staff whose posts had been abolished were not put in the order of priority prescribed in the manual for retention."
Keywords:
abolition of post; criteria; due process; enforcement; flaw; priority; procedure before the tribunal; staff reduction; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 1346
77th Session, 1994
International Criminal Police Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 11
Extract:
The complainant was dismissed for serious misconduct. The complainant does not succeed "in his contention that Interpol's real intent was to abolish his post as system programmer and replace it with one for an operations technician. There is no evidence to bear that out. Even if the organization did mean to reform its computer service, that afforded no grounds for the complainant's disobedience let alone for supposing, as he makes out, that such abolition prompted his dismissal."
Keywords:
abolition of post; insubordination; lack of evidence; organisation's interest; staff member's duties; termination of employment;
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 1326
76th Session, 1994
International Telecommunication Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 13-14
Extract:
The complainant alleges breach of his right to a termination indemnity because his post was abolished by the ITU. The Tribunal holds that he was not dismissed but transferred from the ITU to another organisation under the inter-organization agreement concerning transfer, secondment or loan of staff among the organizations of the United Nations common system. Since his leaving the ITU did not result from the abolition of his post, he is not entitled to a termination indemnity.
Keywords:
abolition of post; coordinated organisations; inter-agency agreement; right; secondment; separation from service; terminal entitlements; termination of employment;
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