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Judgment No. 1986

Decision

THE COMPLAINT IS DISMISSED.

Consideration 7

Extract:

"A decision not to decide upon a request by an employee for the exercise of his alleged rights is nonetheless a decision. It may accordingly be impugned before the Tribunal but only within the time limits prescribed by Article VII of the Tribunal's Statute; those limits started to run on 18 November 1997. They were not suspended or revived by the complainants' repeated requests to the administration or by the latter's repeated refusals to make any substantive decision until the matter had been decided by the Council of the organisation. If the complainants were dissatisfied with the Director-General's decision not to decide, they should have filed their complaints with the Tribunal within ninety days of receiving such decision. Since they did not do so, they must now wait until they receive a substantive decision on the merits of their claim."

Reference(s)

ILOAT reference: ARTICLE VII OF THE STATUTE

Keywords

decision; absence of final decision; receivability of the complaint; time limit; time bar



 
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