Judgment No. 1841

• Organization: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• Date: 28.01.1999
• Original: Français
• Judges: Ba, Gentot, Egli
• Full judgment text (anglais) - Texte intégral du jugement

Decision

1. In accordance with what is said in 25 above WIPO shall apply a new scale to the complainants' pay.
2. The Organization shall pay each of the complainants 200 Swiss francs in costs.
3. Their other claims are dismissed.

Consideration 4

Extract:

The Commission is mistaken. The complainants do have a cause of action and may now challenge the new scales because on them will depend the duration of the "freeze" in their pay and the reckoning of any rise they may become entitled to. Pay scales must ordinarily be challenged forthwith. As the Tribunal has said before, if administrative decisions are to hold good and relations between organisation and staff to be stable, no appeal may lie against them at the time of later revision: see, for example, Judgments 1664 [...], 1682 [...], 1780 [...] and the other precedents there given. If someone on a frozen pay scale might wait to challenge the new scales, that would make for great uncertainty.

Reference(s)

Jugement(s) TAOIT: 1664, 1682, 1780

Keywords

general decision; individual decision