Moral injury (50,-666)
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Judgment 388
43rd Session, 1980
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 9
Extract:
The Tribunal "will [...] take account [...] of the material and moral prejudice which the complainant suffered because of the extraordinary dilatoriness of the internal appeal proceedings: the [organization] took an inordinately long time to file its memoranda and reach its final decision and was therefore partly to blame for the delay."
Keywords:
administrative delay; internal appeal; material injury; moral injury; negligence; organisation;
Consideration 9
Extract:
It is impossible, several years having elapsed, to determine the precise consequences of the organization's negligence. In view of the existing reservations, it is justified to award the complainant compensation ex aequo et bono. Because of the apparent reluctance of the complainant to seek employment outside the organization and the uncertainty of the effects of the organization's negligence, the Tribunal is inclined to award rather modest damages. But account must also be taken of the material and moral prejudice caused by the inordinately long internal appeal proceedings.
Keywords:
administrative delay; amount; injury; internal appeal; material injury; moral injury; negligence; organisation; procedure before the tribunal;
Judgment 373
42nd Session, 1979
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
The complainant was transferred improperly. "Positions which are graded at the same level may nevertheless differ considerably in status and prestige. The Tribunal agrees [...] that the complainant has lost the professional standing that the post of regional adviser gives. Moreover, the transfer was handled in such a way as to give the impression that she was being edged out of her position for reasons unstated; this must have caused her personal distress."
Keywords:
decision quashed; flaw; moral injury; professional injury; transfer;
Judgment 367
41st Session, 1978
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
After 20 years of "laudable service", the complainant, a "valuable member of [the organization's] staff" was transferred. The organization, in its treatment of the complainant, failed in its obligation to show due regard for his dignity and reputation; the Director-General's apology did not remedy the situation.
Keywords:
moral injury; organisation's duties; respect for dignity; satisfactory service; transfer;
Consideration 16
Extract:
Some elements of the moral prejudice - the new assignment offered the complainant less congenial and responsible work - "would not attract compensation if the decision to assign him had been valid". Other aspects, "for example, the humiliating way in which the transfer was effected [...] would attract compensation whether or not the decision was valid."
Keywords:
assignment; moral injury; transfer;
Consideration 16
Extract:
"Often distress and disappointment cannot be avoided but, where [they], can be, [they] should be. As in all organisations, the staff member must take the rough with the smooth and there are bound in management to be pieces of clumsiness or tactlessness which can be sufficiently smoothed over by apology or explanation."
Keywords:
moral injury; organisation's duties; working relations;
Judgment 361
41st Session, 1978
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 9
Extract:
"The Tribunal is not likely to concern itself with cases other than those of grave injury which has been left unredressed. But where such injury has occurred it is not the decision to take the action that is relevant - in substance it may be correct or incorrect - but the decision as to the form in which it should be taken and as to how it shall be executed."
Keywords:
injury; moral injury; professional injury;
Consideration 42
Extract:
"The Tribunal concludes that the injury done to the complainant's feelings and reputation is so grave as to amount to a breach of obligation which calls for compensation. There must also be considered under this head the failure of the organisation to do all that is practicable to see that a staff member is given work and responsibility appropriate to his grade." [The complainant was summarily relieved of his duties as acting director of his division and left idle.]
Keywords:
moral injury; organisation's duties; professional injury; refusal to assign work;
Considerations 43-44
Extract:
The Director-General's decisions are valid, but not the manner in which they were implemented. The administration could have made it clear that the complainant was a victim of the reorganisation and was not to blame. Its silence made the situation even more distressing. "Accordingly, the claim for compensation for moral damage is allowed. Since money is to be the only form of redress, the amount must be sufficient to mark the gravity of the injury."
Keywords:
decision; grounds; injury; moral injury; professional injury; reorganisation; transfer;
Consideration 9
Extract:
Vide Judgment 367, consideration 16.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 367
Keywords:
moral injury; organisation's duties; working relations;
Consideration 40
Extract:
To find moral prejudice in the manner of execution of the impugned decisions, none of which has been invalidated, "is to take a very exceptional course and one which can be taken [...] only in circumstances in which grave injury of a kind likely to impair a staff member's career has been left unredressed."
Keywords:
damages; exception; injury; moral injury; professional injury;
Judgment 311
38th Session, 1977
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations
Extract:
"The circumstances in which the complainant was transferred are such as to warrant payment of damages for the moral prejudice he suffered. Damages will be fairly set at 10,000 Swiss francs."
Keywords:
amount; moral injury; transfer;
Judgment 243
33rd Session, 1974
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 6
Extract:
"It appears [...] from the dossier that although his supervisors expressed a justifiably low opinion of his work, their assessments were expressed in perfectly proper language in no way calculated to cause him any emotional upset."
Keywords:
discretion; moral injury; performance report; unsatisfactory service; work appraisal;
Judgment 234
32nd Session, 1974
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations
Extract:
"[T]here can be no claim in respect of currency devaluation as such." But there can be a claim for compensation for the delay in payment. "In the circumstances of [the] case this compensation should be assessed as the diminution in the amount of rupees eventually received by the complainant, the diminution being due to the change in the rupee/dollar rate during the period of delay."
Keywords:
administrative delay; amendment to the rules; competence of tribunal; consequence; currency of payment; delay in payment; exchange rate; execution of judgment; injury; judgment of the tribunal; material damages; moral injury; receivability of the complaint;
Considerations
Extract:
Judgment No. 195 ordered the payment of US $20,000 in respect of moral and material damage. The period comprising the delay in payment began one month after the notification of the judgment and ended on the date of payment. "The amount of compensation should be ascertained by taking the difference between the rates as quoted on the international exchanges on these two dates."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 195
Keywords:
administrative delay; amendment to the rules; amount; exchange rate; injury; material damages; moral injury; payment; period;
Judgment 223
31st Session, 1973
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations
Extract:
The non-renewal decision having to be quashed for misuse of authority, account must be taken of material and moral damage and of the fact that the complainant could not have been retained in service beyond the age of 65. "It would therefore be a fair assessment of the circumstances as a whole to award [...] compensation in an amount of 35,000 Swiss francs, less the sum already granted to him by [the organisation]."
Keywords:
abuse of power; age limit; amount; contract; criteria; fixed-term; material damages; misuse of authority; moral injury; non-renewal of contract; retirement;
Judgment 210
30th Session, 1973
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 5
Extract:
"The ignominy of summary dismissal and its effect upon the complainant's prospects are heavy additions to the consequences that inevitably flow from the termination of employment".
Keywords:
moral injury; professional injury; summary dismissal;
Judgment 195
29th Session, 1972
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary
Extract:
The complainant's appointment was not renewed because the government concerned did not favour his return to the regional office. There is evidence of strong and unjustifiable prejudice against the complainant. The organization failed in its duty to bring to the attention of the government concerned all relevant matters of the case. The complainant is awarded an indemnity of US $20,000 for moral and material damage.
Keywords:
bias; contract; damages; fixed-term; material injury; moral injury; non-renewal of contract; persona non grata;
Consideration 5
Extract:
In the instant case "the moral damage consists of the injury done to [the complainant's] reputation and which flows from the unjustifiable prejudice" of a senior official.
Keywords:
bias; moral injury;
Judgment 176
26th Session, 1971
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 1
Extract:
"The liability of the organization to pay compensation is established by Judgment No. 136 [under two heads:] [...] compensation to the complainant for the non-renewal of his contract [...] and compensation for moral damage for illegal suspension from duty."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 136
Keywords:
contract; execution of judgment; fixed-term; injury; judgment of the tribunal; material damages; moral injury; non-renewal of contract; suspension;
Consideration 5
Extract:
"The essence of the moral damage claimed lies in the fact of the abrupt and summary suspension which is not denied. It would not be right to relate the assessment under this head exclusively to the basic salary. Distress and moral prejudice may be as great to a man on a small salary as to a man on a large one. But the rate of salary affords a guideline and the six months' salary offered by the organization under this head is in the opinion of the Tribunal approximately correct."
Keywords:
amount; contract; criteria; fixed-term; injury; moral injury; suspension;
Judgment 172
26th Session, 1971
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations
Extract:
The complainant, who was dismissed without inquiry on the basis of unsupported allegations, is entitled to "a sum in respect of the disturbance of his living conditions and family life which the [Director-General] unlawfully caused him and in respect of the moral injury which he suffered on account of the unjust charges brought against him. Considering that he obtained equivalent employment fairly soon, the injury will be fairly assessed by awarding compensation amounting to 15,000 French francs."
Keywords:
amount; contract; fixed-term; injury; inquiry; investigation; lack of evidence; material damages; moral injury; termination of employment;
Judgment 136
22nd Session, 1969
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 3
Extract:
The suspension of the complainant was followed by an improper decision not to renew his contract. Having received his full salary, the complainant "has suffered no material damage, but he has suffered moral damage. He is entitled to equitable compensation for the distress caused by the manner of his treatment and for the injury done thereby to his reputation and to his prospects of obtaining other employment. The organization must therefore pay to the complainant equitable compensation in respect of the illegality of his suspension from duty".
Keywords:
contract; fixed-term; flaw; injury; moral injury; non-renewal of contract; professional injury; suspension;
Judgment 135
22nd Session, 1969
Universal Postal Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations
Extract:
The refusal to grant a permanent post to the complainant was quashed because of legal error. The organisation again rejected the complainant's application. The complainant's claim for damages "is well founded only insofar as it rests on the prejudice arising out of the illegal decision [...] which lapsed on [...] which date the decision legally rejecting his application for a permanent post was issued." The Tribunal awards the complainant a sum in compensation, in particular, for the "prejudice caused to complainant by the state of uncertainty in which he found himself as a result of the rescinded decision."
Keywords:
amount; confirmatory decision; decision; flaw; injury; mistake of law; moral injury; refusal; titularization;
Judgment 127
20th Session, 1968
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
The complainant's appointment was terminated and his post abolished. "[T]he organization has an obligation to the complainant because of the fact which was not taken into account, namely the intervention with the [national] authorities by the senior technical adviser, without good reason, in the exercise of his official duties. As a result, the complainant has suffered both material and moral injury [...] taking account of [...] in particular [...] the fact that the organization was in ignorance through no fault of its own, the organization should pay the complainant compensation".
Keywords:
abolition of post; consultation; contract; disregard of essential fact; fixed-term; injury; liability; material injury; member state; moral injury; organisation; termination of employment;
Judgment 121
20th Session, 1968
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations
Extract:
"The organization has [...] committed a breach of contract by suspending the complainant otherwise than in accordance with the Staff Regulations. Since his emoluments have been fully paid, he has suffered no material damage, but he has suffered moral damage. He is entitled to compensation for the distress caused by the abrupt way in which he was treated, tantamount in its form to summary dismissal, and for the injury done to his reputation and to his prospects of obtaining other employment."
Keywords:
breach; flaw; injury; moral injury; professional injury; provision; respect for dignity; staff regulations and rules; summary dismissal; suspension;
Judgment 87
15th Session, 1965
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 5
Extract:
The complainant, a trade union official, made criticisms which were included in a tract. "The conduct which was deemed to justify [his] summary dismissal did not constitute misconduct serious enough to jeopardise or to be likely to jeopardise the reputation of the organization or its staff." Summary dismissal was not justified.
Keywords:
contract; duty of discretion; material damages; misconduct; moral injury; permanent appointment; proportionality; serious misconduct; staff representative; staff union activity; summary dismissal; termination of employment;
Judgment 60
10th Session, 1962
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration II 2(A)
Extract:
The complainant has not suffered any financial prejudice. "On the other hand, the mere fact of belonging to a given grade does not carry any prestige value, unlike the use of a title, such as 'secretary' for instance [...]. Thus there is no moral prejudice."
Keywords:
cause of action; injury; lack of injury; moral injury; post classification; title of post;
Judgment 33
7th Session, 1958
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations
Extract:
The offer to pay the complainant compensation for the moral and material prejudice he suffered equivalent to six months' salary together with allowances has been maintained before the Tribunal; "the fact that the Director-General admitted the principle of granting compensation to the complainant in respect of the prejudice caused to him was such as to lead the complainant to file his complaint; [...] taking into account the particular circumstances of the case it appears justified that, as an exceptional measure, the complainant be granted compensation by way of participation in his costs."
Keywords:
acceptance; compensation; costs; exception; injury; material injury; moral injury; offer; organisation; settlement out of court; tribunal;
Judgment 27
6th Session, 1957
International Telecommunication Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 6
Extract:
"The only fault which can be attributed to the organisation is that it did not establish [...] clearly and precisely [the responsibility of the complainant in certain incidents] but left open to grave doubt the reasons which motivated the failure to re-engage the complainant [...]. The complainant should therefore be awarded an indemnity in compensation for the moral prejudice resulting from the equivocal explanation given of the failure to re-engage her, for which prejudice the award of a sum of US $1,000 will give her full relief."
Keywords:
amount; contract; fixed-term; grounds; injury; material damages; moral injury; non-renewal of contract; professional injury;
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