The General Meeting noted
with regret that, while there had indisputably been
some progress in collective bargaining and overall
human resources policy, this seemed to go hand in
hand with a growing lack of interest on the part of
the Office for the human attention necessary to deal
with individual situations, in areas such as new forms
of precarious contracts, replies to reclassification
requests, hierarchical relationships or work evaluation.
In this respect, the
General Meeting, appraised of the circumstances leading
to the dismissal of Baslan Qurashi, was particularly
shocked that the ILO could just throw out practically
overnight, on the basis of alleged trivial facts,
a permanent official, counting more than 20 years
of service, with over 10 good or excellent appraisal
reports (before the recent arrival of new chiefs),
who furthermore for years had expressed his desire
to change duties without prejudice to any duty station.
The General Meeting also expresses its concern that
this move might represent a tendency towards threats
on security of employment for ILO officials. The General
Meeting notes that, beyond the pure disregard for
the security of employment essential for the independence
of the international civil service, the Office has
in this decision demonstrated a certain inhumanity
in this case concerning a long-serving official, who
is on top of this father of a large family. Expressing
its sympathy and towards solidarity with Baslan, it
therefore requests the Staff Union Committee to follow
this matter extremely closely, and to call for staff
mobilization if deemed necessary, including in the
more general framework of employment security.
