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Judgment 421
45th Session, 1980
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 12
Extract:
the complainant contends that the recommendation on which the director acted was vitiated by prejudice against him. he mentions three points relating to his nationality and previous conduct. "there is no reason to think that any of these matters, if and insofar as they were known to the two members of the working party, influenced their conclusions in any way." the working party had been set up to advise the director-general on staff reductions. on the day of the meeting to consider the complainant's case, the working party consisted of only two members appointed by the administration.
Keywords:
bias; flaw; internal appeals body; lack of evidence; recommendation;
Judgment 410
44th Session, 1980
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
The complainant was issued a reprimand without it being ascertained what explanation or excuse he might have to give. It is not possible to ignore the alleged misconduct of the Regional Director. "The Director-General must be allowed the widest possible discretion in deciding how to handle incidents of this sort. If he had decided against any formal disciplinary proceedings against either of the parties, his decision would have beyond criticism. But a decision to reprimand one party while leaving the case against the other unconsidered is open to question."
Keywords:
adversarial proceedings; censure; disciplinary measure; disciplinary procedure; flaw; right to reply;
Judgment 393
43rd Session, 1980
Pan American Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 1
Extract:
The complainant requests the cancellation of procedures by which a candidate for the material post was selected and appointed. "The organization has acknowledged - and rightly so - that the procedures were irregular. Thus, insofar as the complainant wishes to have them cancelled, her complaint no longer has any foundation. She has now to co-operate fully with the organization in the review of the [...] classification of her post."
Keywords:
appointment; cause of action; competition; flaw; no cause of action; procedural flaw; settlement out of court;
Consideration 2
Extract:
"It appears from the documents in the dossier that by being improperly rejected in the selection proceedings [for a competition] the complainant suffered, on that account and because of the hostility of [a superior], moral prejudice serious and specific enough to entitle her to damages."
Keywords:
bias; competition; flaw; injury; moral injury; supervisor;
Judgment 391
43rd Session, 1980
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
The complainants argue that the staff union acted at variance with its own rules in proposing reductions in salary and in hours of work to prevent dismissals. They accuse it of having consulted the whole staff instead of just its members and maintain that there were irregularities in the voting. "The Tribunal is not competent to pass judgment on the activities of the staff union and the staff union bodies. The complainants' pleas are material only insofar as the organisation gave weight to the staff union's resolutions".
Keywords:
competence of tribunal; consultation; flaw; staff union;
Judgment 373
42nd Session, 1979
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 5
Extract:
The complainant is challenging both the decision to abolish her post rather than another comparable one and the decision to appoint someone else to the remaining post. The Board found no positive evidence of personal prejudice towards the complainant. Nor does the Tribunal. However the Board did call attention to certain aspects of the matter which in the opinion of the Tribunal require an explanation. No such explanation is contained in the dossier. "[I]n its absence the Tribunal feels bound to infer that in the taking of the decision [to transfer her] there was some error of fact or of law or that essential facts were not taken into consideration or that a clearly mistaken conclusion was drawn from the facts. Accordingly, the decision must be set aside."
Keywords:
abolition of post; bias; flaw; presumption; reassignment;
Consideration 7
Extract:
The complainant was transferred improperly. "Positions which are graded at the same level may nevertheless differ considerably in status and prestige. The Tribunal agrees [...] that the complainant has lost the professional standing that the post of regional adviser gives. Moreover, the transfer was handled in such a way as to give the impression that she was being edged out of her position for reasons unstated; this must have caused her personal distress."
Keywords:
decision quashed; flaw; moral injury; professional injury; transfer;
Judgment 370
42nd Session, 1979
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
"In the present instance [...] it was so obvious that no internal appeal would lie that the intermediary can hardly be blamed for not letting the appeals body itself declare the appeal irreceivable. In any case it would be unduly formalistic to quash the impugned decision because of a flaw which had no effect whatever on the proceedings or on the outcome of the case."
Keywords:
flaw; internal appeal; internal appeals body; lack of injury; procedural flaw; receivability of the complaint;
Judgment 361
41st Session, 1978
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 29
Extract:
"[I]f an unexplained decision is also apparently inexplicable, silence will provide a foundation for an inference that there must have been at work in the decision making some element, such as prejudice or a conclusion falsely drawn, which would require the Tribunal to interfere with the discretion. The Tribunal considers that an unexplained decision to remove the complainant after 12 days from an assignment that was clearly intended to last until the new appointment might well justify such an inference [...]."
Keywords:
assignment; bias; decision; duty to substantiate decision; flaw; grounds;
Judgment 333
40th Session, 1978
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
The members of a committee set up to examine appeals against post grading decisions began their work and subsequently resigned. Instead of following the recommendations already made by the old committee, the Director-General set up a new one. He was therefore bound to start the proceedings all over again. To be lawful the new committee's recommendations could only be made after hearing the persons concerned. The Director-General's decisions based on unlawful recommendations are quashed. The case is "referred back to the Director-General for a new decision, to be taken after due consultation of the [...] grading appeals committee."
Keywords:
flaw; internal appeals body; organisation's duties; procedural flaw; procedure before the tribunal; recommendation;
Judgment 320
39th Session, 1977
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 13
Extract:
"The starting point for any criticism of [the first level supervisor's] judgment is that he is unable to explain the discrepancy between it and all the complainant's previous appraisal reports except upon the hypothesis that the latter were all wrong. This is highly unlikely. They extended over eleven years and came from seven [...] different representatives. [...] His evaluation of the complainant's work cannot be regarded as unbiased."
Keywords:
bias; different appraisals; flaw; period; supervisor; work appraisal;
Considerations 12, 13 and 17
Extract:
The complainant was denied confirmation of his appointment for unsatisfactory service. The Regional Director had nothing to say on the matter. Had he examined the evidence, he would have observed that the performance appraisals were of questionable value. Neither the evaluations of the complainant's first level supervisor (which diverged inexplicably from earlier reports), nor those of the chief of department (which merely echoed the supervisor's views) afforded a basis for the decision. As a result the Director General's decision must be quashed.
Keywords:
different appraisals; flaw; probation report; probationary period; reinstatement; satisfactory service; termination of employment; unsatisfactory service; work appraisal;
Judgment 311
38th Session, 1977
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations
Extract:
The transfer decision was a preventive measure because a close dependence of one staff member on another was inadmissible between officials responsible for applying financial control "[T]he decision to transfer [the complainant] was made upon a hypothesis which never in fact matured [...] all the complainant did was, quite correctly, to ask the opinion of his superiors" upon what was a proposal [to open a joint bank account with a colleague] and to drop the matter when they expressed disapproval. "Hence it appears that that decision drew clearly mistaken conclusions from the facts and should therefore be quashed."
Keywords:
flaw; grounds; mistaken conclusion; transfer;
Judgment 306
38th Session, 1977
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations
Extract:
"What makes it all the harder to account for such a difference in assessment within the space of ten months is that there is not a single document in the dossier which reveals the true reasons and no particular fact which explains why the assessment of the complainant was so utterly different." The Director-General's representative provided an explanation for the Tribunal. "[T]hat explanation of the impugned decision is belated and amounts to mere allegations which are not borne out by any document in the dossier." The non-renewal is quashed.
Keywords:
different appraisals; flaw; grounds; mistaken conclusion; work appraisal;
Judgment 263
35th Session, 1975
International Patent Institute
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 2
Extract:
The Director-General may before taking decisions lay down rules for promotion which he notifies to the staff. In formulating the rules the Director-General exercises real discretionary authority; accordingly, when the Tribunal has to determine the validity of such rules its power of review takes the limited form already described.
Keywords:
discretion; flaw; judicial review; promotion; provision; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 262
35th Session, 1975
International Patent Institute
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 1
Extract:
Vide Judgment 263, consideration 2.
Keywords:
discretion; flaw; judicial review; promotion; provision; staff regulations and rules;
Judgment 254
34th Session, 1975
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 1
Extract:
The complainant contends that his supervisor failed to discuss his conclusions with him as required by the applicable provision. "Non-compliance with these requirements does not however ipso facto invalidate a report. In the present case it is clear from the facts in the dossier that discussion would have served no useful purpose."
Keywords:
flaw; lack of injury; organisation's duties; performance report; rebuttal; right to reply;
Judgment 247
33rd Session, 1974
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 21
Extract:
The Director General erred in law in treating the complainant's attitude towards an official as unsatisfactory service; he erred in law in concluding that at the material time, this official was the complainant's superior or supervisor; in concluding that the complainant was guilty of insubordination, he drew a clearly mistaken conclusion from the facts. "The decision [...] is quashed; the complainant [shall be] paid the increment due to him [...] with interest thereon at 6 per cent per annum."
Keywords:
amount; conduct; flaw; increment withheld; insubordination; interest on damages; material damages; mistaken conclusion; supervisor; unsatisfactory service; working relations;
Judgment 232
32nd Session, 1974
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations
Extract:
"[S]ince the complainant had let it be clearly understood that he would not attend the meeting and would be represented at it, the fact that he was not told of its exact date is immaterial to the propriety of the proceedings."
Keywords:
complainant; counsel; date; duty to inform; flaw; internal appeal; internal appeals body; procedural flaw; procedure before the tribunal; right to reply;
Judgment 226
32nd Session, 1974
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Considerations
Extract:
"Although the dossier as supplemented by the report on the inquiry reveals obvious animosity towards the complainant on the part of her immediate supervisor and the criticisms of her appear fairly mild, especially since she was a beginner, and cast no doubt whatever on her professional competence, it does not appear from the dossier that the impugned decision with regard to a probationer was tainted with any of the irregularities which entitle the Tribunal to interfere."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 194
Keywords:
bias; flaw; judicial review; probationary period; satisfactory service; supervisor;
Considerations
Extract:
By Judgment No. 194, the Administrative Tribunal quashed as being based on insufficient grounds the decision not to confirm the complainant's appointment. In execution of that judgment an ad hoc committee was set up to examine the case. In the light of the very full report of that committee, "the Director-General took a considered decision in full knowledge of the facts. The organization has thus corrected the procedural irregularity which led to the quashing of the decision".
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 194
Keywords:
case sent back to organisation; confirmatory decision; duty to substantiate decision; execution of judgment; flaw; formal flaw; judgment of the tribunal; probationary period; termination of employment;
Judgment 211
30th Session, 1973
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 3
Extract:
The complainant seeks a new certificate consisting of accurate and unbiased assessments of his work and official conduct and taking account of his entire performance record. "The relief is granted only on the ground that the evaluation in the certificate is [...] not based on the entire record. The certificate will be quashed in order that the Director-General may, if the complainant so requests, issue a new certificate on the correct basis."
Keywords:
certificate of service; flaw; period; work appraisal;
Judgment 208
30th Session, 1973
Universal Postal Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
"The improprieties alleged by the complainant relate to posts put up for competition subsequently to his appointment, i.e. to procedures to which he was not a party. An official is not, however, entitled to complain of procedures in which he is not involved [...] In the present case the Tribunal is not called upon to consider the allegation of improprieties of procedure."
Keywords:
cause of action; competition; flaw; lack of injury; no cause of action; procedural flaw;
Judgment 203
30th Session, 1973
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 2
Extract:
"Cases in which a disciplinary sanction imposed on a staff member appears out of all proportion to the objective and subjective circumstances in which the misbehaviour was committed should be assimilated to cases of error of law."
Keywords:
disciplinary measure; flaw; proportionality;
Consideration 1
Extract:
The complainant "was not [...] allowed to be present during the hearing of witnesses or to participate in the examination of the evidence. Although the statements made by the witnesses were communicated to him he was not in a position, during the hearing, to rebut the charges against him, to put questions, or to ask for clarification." The right to be heard was not respected. The decision to terminate the complainant for serious misconduct is tainted by a procedural irregularity.
Keywords:
disclosure of evidence; flaw; procedural flaw; right to reply;
Consideration 3
Extract:
"[T]he decision impugned [summary dismissal] is tainted by a procedural irregularity and by error of law, both of these being grounds requiring it to be quashed."
Keywords:
flaw; mistake of law; procedural flaw; serious misconduct; termination of employment;
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