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Judgment No. 2912

Decision

The complaint is dismissed.

Consideration 5

Extract:

"The fact that the Staff Regulations of the Federation require express reference to terms of appointment, or to provisions of the Staff Rules or Staff Regulations for the filing of an internal appeal, does not exclude appeals based on a breach of general principles of law from the competence of the Joint Appeals Commission. An international organisation must comply with these principles, inter alia, in its relations with its staff and an internal appeal body is necessarily competent to review such compliance. [...] Article II, paragraph 5, of [the Tribunal's] Statute similarly stipulates that the Tribunal is competent to hear 'complaints alleging non-observance, in substance or in form, of the terms of appointment of officials [of the Federation] and of provisions of the Staff Regulations'. But naturally these provisions have never prevented the Tribunal from ruling on breaches of general principles of law."

Reference(s)

ILOAT reference: Article II, paragraph 5, of the Statute

Keywords

complaint; internal appeals body; competence; internal appeal; competence of tribunal; general principle; organisation's duties; iloat statute; staff regulations and rules; breach; provision; contract; working relations; formal flaw; condition; right

Consideration 6

Extract:

"According to Article VII, paragraph 1, of the [Tribunal's]Statute, '[a] complaint shall not be receivable unless the decision impugned is a final decision and the person concerned has exhausted such other means of resisting it as are open to him under the applicable Staff Regulations'. The only exceptions allowed under the Tribunal's case law to this requirement that internal means of redress must have been exhausted are cases where staff regulations provide that decisions taken by the executive head of an organisation are not subject to the internal appeal procedure, where there is an inordinate and inexcusable delay in the internal appeal procedure, where for specific reasons connected with the personal status of the complainant he or she does not have access to the internal appeal body or, lastly, where the parties have mutually agreed to forgo this requirement that internal means of redress must have been exhausted (see, for example, Judgments 1491, 2232, 2443, 2511 and the case law cited therein, and 2582)."

Reference(s)

Jugement(s) TAOIT: 1491, 2232, 2443, 2511, 2582

Keywords

absence of final decision; receivability of the complaint; direct appeal to tribunal; internal appeal; internal remedies exhausted; delay; iloat statute



 
Dernière mise à jour: 17.08.2020 ^ haut