Judgment No. 838

• Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• Date: 05.06.1987
• Original: French
• Judges: Grisel, Ducoux, Suffian
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

THE COMPLAINTS AND THE APPLICATIONS TO INTERVENE ARE DISMISSED.

Summary

Extract:

The complainants object to the FAO's adoption of a new scale to determine pensionable remuneration whose effect was to lower their pension entitlements. They submit that the application of certain provisions in the Staff Regulations and Staff Rules is in breach of their acquired rights and the rule against retroactivity. "Their complaints will [...] be receivable only if the application of those Regulations and Rules [causes] them injury. The Tribunal concludes from the material rules that it does not."

Keywords

receivability of the complaint; cause of action; no cause of action; scale; pension; pension entitlements; pensionable remuneration; reduction of salary