Judgment No. 1207

• Organization: World Health Organization (WHO)
• Date: 10.02.1993
• Original: French
• Judges: Ruda, Pescatore, Gentot
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

THE COMPLAINT IS DISMISSED.

Consideration 8

Extract:

"The Tribunal need only observe, as it has often said before (for example in Judgments 940 [...], 1016 [...] and 1025 [...]), that no staff member has any right to promotion. Even if he is expecting it, as the complainant was, he may not demand that management grant him the benefit of it from any particular date."

Reference(s)

ILOAT Judgment(s): 940, 1016, 1025

Keywords

effective date; case law; organisation's duties; career; promotion; date; right

Considerations 9-10

Extract:

"A distinction must be drawn between the upgrading of the complainant's post and his own promotion. Any regrading is bound to affect an organisation's structure and will therefore depend on the way in which work is organised. [...]
The fact that pending the outcome he was fulfilling duties pertaining to a more highly graded post that did not yet exist does not entitle him to compensation, let alone retroactive promotion. [...]"

Reference(s)

ILOAT Judgment(s): 940, 1016, 1025

Keywords

effective date; administrative delay; post classification; promotion; personal promotion; post; organisation's interest; date