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Step (266, 267,-666)
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Keywords: Step
Total judgments found: 43
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Judgment 5190
141st Session, 2026
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the fact that he was not promoted following the introduction of a new career regime applicable to chairmen and members of the Boards of Appeal.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
career; complaint dismissed; step;
Judgment 5189
141st Session, 2026
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges his transposition into a new job group, together with the refusal to grant him a salary increase to which he believed he was entitled, pursuant to the introduction of a new career regime applicable to chairmen and members of the Boards of Appeal.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
career; complaint allowed; step;
Judgment 5188
141st Session, 2026
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant, a Board of Appeal member, challenges his transposition to a new grade, with effect from 1 January 2017, as a result of the introduction of a new career regime.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
career; complaint dismissed; step;
Judgment 5187
141st Session, 2026
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant, a Board of Appeal member, challenges his transposition to a new grade with effect from 1 January 2017.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
career; complaint dismissed; step;
Judgment 5186
141st Session, 2026
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant, a Board of Appeal member, challenges his transposition to a new grade with effect from 1 July 2015 as a result of the introduction of a new career system.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
career; complaint dismissed; step;
Judgment 5185
141st Session, 2026
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant, a Board of Appeal member, challenges his transposition to a new grade with effect from 1 July 2015 as a result of the introduction of a new career system.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
career; complaint dismissed; step;
Judgment 5070
140th Session, 2025
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the lack of step advancement following the introduction of a new career system.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
career; complaint dismissed; step;
Judgment 5069
140th Session, 2025
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainants challenge the failure to transpose them to a new grade following the introduction of a new career system.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
career; complaint dismissed; step;
Consideration 9
Extract:
In consideration 8 of the aforementioned Judgment 4711, the terms of which were confirmed in consideration 6 of Judgment 4889, the Tribunal found, with regard to the criteria referred to, that the abolition of seniority-based step advancement and its replacement – generally speaking – by merit-based step advancement did not constitute a breach of the acquired rights of the Office’s employees. The Tribunal based this finding in particular on the consideration that, while it was true that employees no longer had the right to automatic advancement, they were not deprived, under the new career system, of the opportunity to benefit from a step advancement in appropriate circumstances.
Similarly, in consideration 7 of Judgment 4889, the Tribunal held that the amendment made to the provisions governing promotions, whose objective was to make grade advancement more dependent on the assessment of performance and the evidence of expected competencies, did not constitute a breach of acquired rights.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 4711, 4889
Keywords:
acquired right; promotion; step;
Judgment 5007
140th Session, 2025
International Cocoa Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant contests the date of his within-grade step increment.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
complaint dismissed; duty to substantiate decision; internal appeals body; recommendation; step;
Judgment 4990
139th Session, 2025
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the abolition of automatic step advancement pursuant to the introduction of a new career system.
Consideration 3
Extract:
[S]taff rules providing for the grant of promotion within an international organisation do not confer any acquired rights on staff. Unless the new rules substantially deprive staff of their former prospects for advancement, an organisation always has the ability to amend those arrangements according to need.
Keywords:
acquired right; career; step;
Consideration 3
Extract:
The rules applicable to step advancement and promotions were reformed by decision CA/D 10/14 in order to base career progression on proven performance and demonstration of expected competencies, but the promotion opportunities offered to staff were not substantially affected.
Keywords:
acquired right; career; promotion; step;
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
acquired right; career; complaint dismissed; step;
Judgment 4973
139th Session, 2025
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the step assigned to him at the time of his recruitment.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
complaint dismissed; grade; step; terms of appointment; time bar;
Judgment 4962
139th Session, 2025
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges her performance appraisal for 2019 and the subsequent decisions to “freeze” her step advancement and to place her on a performance improvement plan.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
complaint allowed; performance evaluation; rating; step; supervision; supervisor;
Judgment 4889
138th Session, 2024
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainants challenge their transposition to a new grade following the introduction of a new career system.
Consideration 7
Extract:
[T]he complainants submit that their acquired rights were also breached by the amendment of the provisions governing grade promotion. They consider that this amendment unlawfully brought to an end the system for “quasi-automatic promotion” which, they claim, was in force prior to the disputed reform and also constituted a fundamental term of their employment.
But the Tribunal cannot accept this line of argument either.
It is well settled in the case law, drawing on the same principles as those set out in the aforementioned consideration 8 of Judgment 4711, that the provisions providing for the grant of promotion within an international organisation do not confer any acquired rights on staff. Unless the new rules substantially deprive staff of their former prospects for advancement, an organisation always has the ability to amend those arrangements according to need (see, in particular, Judgments 3524, consideration 3, 3256, consideration 14, or 1025, consideration 4).
In the present case, it is plain from the file that, although the effect of decision CA/D 10/14 on the rules governing promotion was indeed to make career progression more dependent on the assessment of performance and evidence of expected competencies, the opportunities for promotion open to staff were not substantially affected.
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[I]t was lawful for the provisions in question, which deal with simple arrangements for the grant of promotion within the meaning of the aforementioned case law, to amend the earlier text without causing any breach of acquired rights.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 1025, 3256, 3524, 4711
Keywords:
acquired right; promotion; step;
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
career; complaint dismissed; step;
Judgment 4888
138th Session, 2024
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant has filed applications for review of Judgments 4710, 4711 and 4712.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
career; complaint dismissed; step;
Judgment 4711
136th Session, 2023
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the abolition of automatic step advancement pursuant to the introduction of a new career system.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
acquired right; career; complaint dismissed; step;
Consideration 8
Extract:
[T]he complainant contends that the new step advancement system infringed an acquired right. He alleges that in the former system he had a right to an automatic step advancement based on seniority, whilst in the new career system step advancement is based on performance and assessment of competencies. He concludes that the former automatic step advancement was a fundamental and essential term of employment in the meaning of the Tribunal’s case law on acquired rights. Namely, he recalls that Judgment 832 lays down three elements to be considered: the nature of the altered term; the reason for change; and the consequences on staff pay and benefits.
This plea must be rejected. According to the Tribunal’s case law, established for example in Judgment 61, clarified in Judgment 832 and confirmed in Judgment 986, the amendment of a provision governing an official’s situation to her or his detriment constitutes a breach of an acquired right only when such an amendment adversely affects the balance of contractual obligations, or alters fundamental terms of employment in consideration of which the official accepted an appointment, or which subsequently induced her or him to stay on. In order for there to be a breach of an acquired right, the amendment to the applicable text must relate to a fundamental and essential term of employment. Judgment 832, consideration 14, details a three-part test for determining whether the altered term is fundamental and essential. The test is as follows:
(1) The nature of the altered term: “It may be in the contract or in the Staff Regulations or Staff Rules or in a decision, and whereas the contract or a decision may give rise to acquired rights the regulations and rules do not necessarily do so.”
(2) The reason for the change: “It is material that the terms of appointment may often have to be adapted to circumstances, and there will ordinarily be no acquired right when a rule or a clause depends on variables such as the cost-of-living index or the value of the currency. Nor can the finances of the body that applies the terms of appointment be discounted.”
(3) The consequence of allowing or disallowing an acquired right and the effect it will have on staff pay and benefits, and how those who plead an acquired right fare as against others.
In addition, as the Tribunal observed in Judgment 4028, consideration 13, international civil servants are not entitled to have all the conditions of employment or retirement laid down in the provisions of the staff rules and regulations in force at the time of their recruitment applied to them throughout their career and retirement. Most of those conditions can be altered though depending on the nature and importance of the provision in question, staff may have an acquired right to its continued application.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 61, 832, 986, 4028
Keywords:
acquired right; promotion; step;
Judgment 4710
136th Session, 2023
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the Administrative Council decision CA/D 10/14 to modify the career system.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
career; complaint dismissed; general decision; step;
Judgment 4546
134th Session, 2022
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the decision of the President of IFAD to reject her request for payment of the financial benefits linked to advancement to steps 2 and 3 of her grade P-4 to which she submits she is entitled.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
complaint dismissed; step;
Judgment 4082
127th Session, 2019
European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant contests the salary he receives at his new grade.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
complaint dismissed; salary; scale; step;
Judgment 4031
126th Session, 2018
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the step level he was placed in upon implementation of a new local salary scale for General Service staff in New Delhi, India.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
complaint allowed; salary; scale; step;
Judgment 4029
126th Session, 2018
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the decision not to grant him the two-step within-grade increase which, he argues, WHO ought to have granted him at the time of his appointment under a fixed-term contract.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
complaint allowed; decision quashed; step;
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