Discretion (547, 548, 549, 550, 551,-666)
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Judgment 1422
79th Session, 1995
International Telecommunication Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 6
Extract:
The Tribunal has ruled in Judgment 988 "that Regulation 4.9 allows the Secretary-General to promote someone even against the Appointment and Promotion Board's advice and is intended as a safeguard to ensure compliance with the rules on appointment and promotion. The intent is not to enable the Secretary-General to prefer a weaker candidate on compassionate or indeed any other grounds."
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ITU STAFF REGULATION 4.9
ILOAT Judgment(s): 988
Keywords:
advisory body; advisory opinion; appointment; case law; discretion; due process; enforcement; executive head; interpretation; promotion; promotion board; safeguard; selection board; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 1419
78th Session, 1995
European Southern Observatory
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 23
Extract:
"Where the Tribunal sets a decision aside the defendant organisation is bound to take any action required to give full effect to the wording and reasoning of the judgment. When the dispute is about financial liability the Tribunal may in the full exercise of its competence either state the amount of which the defendant is liable, if a sufficiently exact figure can be put on it, or else, where execution calls for further calculation or the play of discretion, send the case back to the organisation so that it may act on the rulings in the judgment."
Keywords:
compensation; consequence; discretion; effect; execution of judgment; judgment of the tribunal; organisation's duties; res judicata;
Judgment 1418
78th Session, 1995
Universal Postal Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 6
Extract:
"The purpose of probation is to ensure that new staff members are the best qualified. So an organisation must be allowed the widest measure of discretion in the matter and its decision will stand unless the defect is especially serious or glaring. Moreover, where the reason for refusal of confirmation is unsatisfactory performance the Tribunal will not replace the organisation's assessment with its own."
Keywords:
discretion; judicial review; limits; probationary period; purpose; termination of employment; unsatisfactory service;
Consideration 6
Extract:
"According to the case law a decision not to renew a staff member's appointment is discretionary and will be set aside only if taken without authority or in breach of a rule of form or of procedure, or if based on a mistake of fact or of law, or if some essential fact was overlooked, or if clearly mistaken conclusions were drawn from the facts, or if there was abuse of authority. Those criteria hold good for any discretionary decision, but in reviewing a decision not to confirm the appointment of a probationer the Tribunal will be particularly cautious; otherwise probation would fail to serve as a period of trial."
Keywords:
case law; contract; discretion; judicial review; limits; non-renewal of contract; probationary period; purpose;
Judgment 1415
78th Session, 1995
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
"As stated in Judgment 1354 and others delivered this day on similar cases, the tribunal has limited power of review over the Director-General's appraisal of performance for the purpose of choosing career paths."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 1354, 1412, 1413, 1414, 1416
Keywords:
case law; discretion; executive head; grade; judicial review; qualifications;
Judgment 1405
78th Session, 1995
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 6
Extract:
"Disciplinary proceedings, and the safeguards they afford, are relevant in the event of misconduct warranting disciplinary action while an official is under contract, and one possible sanction is termination of the appointment, whatever its duration may be. Disciplinary proceedings do not apply in the event of due expiry of a fixed-term appointment, when the issue is whether in the light ofpast performance the contract should be renewed. An organisation must be allowed full freedom to decide the issue without having to go through the disciplinary procedure."
Keywords:
consequence; contract; disciplinary measure; disciplinary procedure; discretion; fixed-term; misconduct; non-renewal of contract; organisation's interest; safeguard;
Consideration 4
Extract:
"Precedent acknowledges an organisation's wide discretion in renewing a fixed-term appointment and its right to refuse renewal for reasons that include misconduct and unsatisfactory performance".
Keywords:
case law; contract; discretion; fixed-term; misconduct; non-renewal of contract; unsatisfactory service;
Judgment 1398
78th Session, 1995
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 8
Extract:
"All organisations need computer technology and there is nothing wrong with making staff who draft and write search reports and the like work with software and submit their output in a readily usable format. [...] EPO officers have wide discretion over matters of organisation and the EPO is not to be held liable for bringing conditions of work up to date. It thereby infringed none of the safeguards the staff enjoy; nor may it be deemed to have altered the job description of search examiners, which, [...] is cast in very general terms."
Keywords:
discretion; executive head; organisation's interest; post description; reorganisation; safeguard;
Consideration 6
Extract:
"The President has wide discretion over the organisation of work and he is not bound to consult the advisory bodies set up under the Service Regulations before introducing new means of improving staff efficiency. In any event the impugned decision made no change in the rules on work arrangements that required such consultation under Article 38."
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ARTICLE 38 EPO SERVICE REGULATIONS
Keywords:
advisory body; advisory opinion; discretion; executive head; organisation's interest; reorganisation; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 1392
78th Session, 1995
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 36
Extract:
The complainant objects to the actuarial method which the organisation used in a study of the pension fund's foreseeable costs. "Like any public authority, the EPO enjoys a presumption in its favour - especially when it is taking technical measures and it has done thorough preparatory work - that its choice of actuarial method is the most suitable and the fairest. [...] It is of course open to a staff member under a system of administrative law to challenge the organisation's choice, but he must be able to adduce evidence to show why the chosen method, when compared with others, may suffer from technical flaws that should have disqualified it."
Keywords:
actuarial valuation; burden of proof; contributions; discretion; evidence; increase; judicial review; mistake of fact; organisation; pension; reckoning; right of appeal;
Judgment 1390
78th Session, 1995
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 24
Extract:
"To what extent must an administration substantiate its decisions? The answer is that it depends on the sort of decision that is to be substantiated. In the present case a distinction must be drawn between the rejection of an external application, particularly where a competition has attracted many candidates, and the rejection of an application by a serving official. In the latter case the organisation has a duty to maintain the relations of trust it has with the staff member, and although it must remain free to choose how it will notify the reasons to him it must be wary of damaging his career prospects."
Keywords:
appointment; candidate; competition; competition cancelled; discretion; duty to substantiate decision; internal candidate; organisation's duties; purport; refusal; staff member's interest;
Consideration 27
Extract:
Article 15 of Annex 1 to the Eurocontrol Convention says that "the Agency shall be empowered to recruit personnel directly only if the contracting parties are unable to make qualified personnel available to it". The Tribunal holds that the provision "limits the organisation's freedom to recruit by giving priority to candidates prescribed by the contracting parties over 'outside' candidates, but it puts no restrictions on the organisation's freedom to assess the suitability of applicants, wherever they may come from, nor its right to give serving staff a reasonable opportunity of advancement provided that they are as well qualified as other candidates."
Reference(s)
Organization rules reference: ARTICLE 15 OF ANNEX 1 TO THE EUROCONTROL CONVENTION
Keywords:
appointment; candidate; career; competition; competition cancelled; discretion; equal treatment; internal candidate; international instrument; interpretation; legitimate expectation; member state; official; priority; promotion; qualifications;
Judgment 1388
78th Session, 1995
Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 13
Extract:
"According to consistent precedent promotion is at the discretion of the organisation, which must be free to grant or withhold it in accordance with objective working requirements. It follows that any grant of promotion at the time of retirement is inherently contrary to the organisation's interests because by then there can no longer be any question of taking on the higher level of responsibility that promotion entails."
Keywords:
case law; date; discretion; effective date; organisation's interest; promotion; retirement; right; separation from service;
Judgment 1386
78th Session, 1995
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 17
Extract:
Consistent precedent has it "that the administrative authority has the widest measure of discretion in confirming the appointment of a probationer (see Judgments 503, [...] under 2; 687, [...] under 2; 1052, [...] under 4; and 1161, [...] under 4). The purpose of such discretion is to ensure that the organisation may choose staff in full freedom and independence and in so doing it will assess the imponderable aspects of the probationer's personality, which must pose no threat to the harmony of staff relations. Here the Tribunal will not intervene in the administration's choice except in the event of abuse of authority or a clear mistake of law or of fact."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 503, 687, 1052, 1161
Keywords:
case law; contract; criteria; discretion; judicial review; official; organisation's interest; permanent appointment; probationary period; working relations;
Judgment 1371
77th Session, 1994
Pan American Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 11
Extract:
The ad hoc reduction-in-force committee has discretion to consider a candidate well-suited for work in a particular group "on the strength of his actual qualifications and experience. In this case the committee failed to exercise such discretion and so the reduction-in-force procedure has not been duly completed. It must therefore be restarted."
Keywords:
advisory body; candidate; discretion; due process; flaw; procedure before the tribunal; professional category; staff reduction;
Judgment 1367
77th Session, 1994
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations 11 and 16
Extract:
"The dispute is about the time in which a staff member of WHO may exercise his right to removal of his household effects at the organization's expense upon retirement. [...] The Director-General's decision is arbitrary, not just because it fails to state the reasons for choosing the [...] new deadline for the refund of the costs of removal, but because it gives no consistent reply to the complainant's claim. It is a wrong exercise of discretion."
Keywords:
bias; breach; decision; discretion; duty to substantiate decision; limits; refund; removal expenses; time limit;
Judgment 1357
77th Session, 1994
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 11
Extract:
"The organisation is free to withdraw a notice of vacancy at any time, even when, as in this case, the process of selection has gone quite far. The conclusion is that the complainant's internal appeal disclosed no cause of action at the time of filing and that his complaint must fail for the same reason, there being no need to entertain his arguments on the merits."
Keywords:
competition; discretion; internal appeal; no cause of action; organisation's interest; post; procedure before the tribunal; receivability of the complaint; vacancy notice;
Judgment 1355
77th Session, 1994
Universal Postal Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
"According to the case law - especially Judgment 1235 [...] - the Director-General is not bound by the appointment and Promotion Committee's recommendations and in particular need not appoint the candidate the Committee has put first. In the exercise of discretion, he must ensure that his choice is not tainted with any mistake of law or fact and, to allow the tribunal to exercise its power of review, he must state the reasons for his decision."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 1235
Keywords:
advisory body; advisory opinion; appointment; candidate; case law; competition; discretion; duty to substantiate decision; executive head; judicial review; limits; mistake of fact; promotion board;
Consideration 9
Extract:
"Any promotion wholly or even mainly based on considerations of sex would unquestionably be unlawful."
Keywords:
candidate; discretion; flaw; judicial review; promotion; sex discrimination;
Consideration 9
Extract:
"Qualifications being comparable, it was lawful for the Union to apply the test of seniority" when picking a candidate for promotion.
Keywords:
candidate; competence; criteria; discretion; judicial review; promotion; seniority;
Consideration 10
Extract:
The Tribunal rejects his plea "that the Director-General erred in law by assuming that he was empowered to disregard the Appointment and Promotion Committee's 'decisions'. What the Committee does is advise, not decide, and the Director-General simply exercised his discretion in choosing between the candidates on its short-list. Although [...] he must exercise such discretion lawfully he is not bound by the Committee's ranking of candidates."
Keywords:
advisory body; advisory opinion; appointment; candidate; competition; condition; decision; discretion; executive head; promotion board;
Judgment 1352
77th Session, 1994
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 12
Extract:
"In the case of dismissal of a probationer the employer is to be allowed the widest discretion and the decision will be quashed only if the mistake or the illegality is especially serious or glaring: see, for example, Judgment 687 [...], under 2."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 687
Keywords:
case law; discretion; flaw; judicial review; limits; probationary period; termination of employment;
Judgment 1349
77th Session, 1994
European Southern Observatory
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 11
Extract:
"An organisation enjoys wide discretion in deciding whether or not to renew a fixed-term appointment and a fortiori whether to convert it into an indefinite one. The exercise of such discretion is subject to review, but only to limited review, the Tribunal respecting the organisation's freedom to determine its own requirements and the career prospects of staff."
Keywords:
amendment to the rules; contract; discretion; duration of appointment; fixed-term; judicial review; limits; non-renewal of contract; organisation's interest; permanent appointment;
Judgment 1335
76th Session, 1994
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 3
Extract:
"Decisions to renew or extend fixed-term appointments are at the discretion of the executive head, on the understanding, however, that he shall exercise it for the good of the organisation and in its interests."
Keywords:
contract; decision; discretion; executive head; extension of contract; fixed-term; limits; organisation's interest;
Judgment 1334
76th Session, 1994
International Atomic Energy Agency
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 27
Extract:
"The Tribunal must make it plain that it will not interfere in the Agency's exercise of its discretion to determine the sort of additional duties or constraints that earn special compensation over and above the payment of salary for the performance of normal duties. Nor, if the Agency believes special compensation to be warranted, will the Tribunal, save in obviously anomalous cases, rule on the form such compensation should take or the arrangements for granting it."
Keywords:
compensatory allowance; discretion; judicial review; limits; proportionality; salary;
Judgment 1332
76th Session, 1994
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 10
Extract:
"The Director-General's decision, being discretionary, is subject to limited review by the Tribunal and may be set aside for example if he obviously misconstrued the facts. But he did not."
Keywords:
discretion; executive head; judicial review; limits; mistake of fact;
Judgment 1324
76th Session, 1994
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 5
Extract:
See Judgment 525, consideration 4.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 525
Keywords:
abuse of power; amendment to the rules; decision-maker; discretion; disregard of essential fact; exception; executive head; formal flaw; home; home leave; judicial review; mistake of fact; mistaken conclusion; misuse of authority; procedural flaw;
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