Judgment No. 4350

• Organization: World Health Organization (WHO)
• Date: 07.12.2020
• Original: English
• Judges: Frydman, Hansen, Rawlins
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

The complaint is dismissed.

Summary

The complainant challenges WHO’s failure to provide him with a peaceful working environment and to protect him against a series of allegedly “prejudicial and unjustified adverse actions”.

Judgment keywords

Keywords

performance evaluation; complaint dismissed

Consideration 12

Extract:

Ground [...], in which the complainant alleges that there was serious procedural impropriety and conflict of interest when the Deputy Chair of the GBA, having decided with the Chair of the GBA to join the two internal appeals, then sat on the GBA panel that considered the appeals, is also unfounded. The mere fact that a member of a panel decides to join internal appeals does not disqualify that member from continuing to sit on the panel during the ensuing proceedings.

Keywords

internal appeals body; conflict of interest