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Judgment 5006
140th Session, 2025
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the decision to summarily dismiss him, in particular for alleged sexual harassment and failure to act in compliance with internal rules concerning the use of electronic devices.
Judgment keywords
Keywords:
complaint allowed; conduct; sexual harassment; summary dismissal;
Judgment 4864
138th Session, 2024
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant contests the decision to withhold two months’ salary to comply with a national Court order.
Consideration 14
Extract:
The Tribunal’s case law has it that while international organizations cannot intrude on the private lives of their staff members, those staff members must nonetheless comply with the requirements inherent in their status as international civil servants, including in their personal conduct (see Judgment 4400, consideration 24). Thus, the complainant cannot invoke his right to respect for his private life as a shield to circumvent his duty towards the Organization to maintain a high standard of behaviour also in his private life. A high standard of behaviour implies discharging private obligations and not involving the Organization in private disputes, involvement which is unwanted by the Organization but inevitable where private debts are not settled.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 4400
Keywords:
conduct; disciplinary procedure; private life;
Judgment 4835
138th Session, 2024
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the decision to rescind an offer of employment that had been extended to him, on the basis that he had been disciplined for sexual misconduct.
Considerations 8-10
Extract:
At the time when the […] rescission decision was made, the complainant had been sanctioned twice for breaches of the Code of Conduct and Anti-Harassment Guidelines. Before the 1 May 2020 final letter of warning which was eventually set aside, the complainant had received, on 29 July 2019, a first warning letter, following a preliminary assessment which concluded that he “had failed to accept a female subordinate’s repeated requests to end their personal relationship and had continued to make unwanted contact attempts of a personal or intimate nature, which appeared to have made the female subordinate in question uncomfortable and to have created an offensive working environment.” Therefore, the mention of “reference checks [...] [which] revealed that [the complainant] ha[d] been sanctioned for sexual misconduct” in the […] rescission decision can be regarded as covering the 29 July 2019 warning letter issued to the complainant, which alone provided a sufficient legal basis for IFRC to decide to rescind the conditional employment offer that had been extended to him on 26 June 2020. […] The complainant’s argument […] that a warning letter cannot be used to rescind an employment offer since it is “the second least serious disciplinary sanction open to the Secretary General” is also unfounded. The Tribunal considers that the complainant’s conduct underlying the 29 July 2019 warning letter is likely to have compromised the trust between him and the Federation, regardless of the type of disciplinary measure which was ultimately imposed […] [T]he Federation withdrew the conditional offer of employment based on a reference check revealing that the complainant had been sanctioned for sexual misconduct, which it was entitled to do as part of the exercise of its discretionary power.
Keywords:
appointment; conduct; disciplinary measure; discretion; offer withdrawn; sexual harassment;
Judgment 4779
137th Session, 2024
International Telecommunication Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges her dismissal for misconduct.
Considerations 5 & 13
Extract:
[A]lthough it is indeed a matter of principle under the Tribunal’s case law that an organisation must respect the confidentiality of private messages stored in a professional email account (see, in particular, Judgment 2183, consideration 19), that requirement must clearly be balanced against the requirements intrinsic to the need to combat fraud and, more generally, to the need to tackle misconduct on the part of officials. [...]
[I]t should be recalled that, while international organisations cannot intrude on the private lives of their staff members, those staff members must nonetheless comply with the requirements inherent in their status as international civil servants, including in their personal conduct. This principle is, for example, laid down in the Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service [...].Furthermore, the Tribunal has repeatedly stated in its case law that some private conduct may, on this account, legitimately lead to disciplinary action (see, for example, Judgments 4400, consideration 24, and 3602, consideration 13, and, with specific regard to a failure to honour private financial obligations, Judgments 2944, considerations 44 to 49, 1584, consideration 9, and 1480, consideration 3).
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 1480, 1584, 2183, 2944, 3602, 4400
Keywords:
conduct; disciplinary procedure; organisation's duties; private life;
Judgment 4753
137th Session, 2024
International Atomic Energy Agency
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the decision to place on his personnel file a letter notifying him that he had committed serious misconduct for which he would have been summarily dismissed had he not separated from the IAEA, and to relevantly inform all affected individuals.
Consideration 8
Extract:
Ordinarily, a document addressing a staff member’s performance or conduct can, appropriately, be placed on the staff member’s personnel file. However, if the document is legally flawed, an order could be made requiring its removal (see, for example, Judgment 3997, consideration 8). In the present case, the letter of 17 December 2020 might arguably be legally flawed, if there was a flawed process of investigation.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 3997
Keywords:
administrative decision; conduct; flaw; investigation; order; personal file;
Judgment 4400
131st Session, 2021
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant, a former official of the International Labour Office, impugns the decisions of the Director-General to issue a reprimand against him, to revoke his appointment as a Director, to appoint another person to that post and, finally, to discharge him with notice.
Consideration 19
Extract:
Paragraph 44 of the Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service, which concerns officials’ “[p]ersonal conduct” and provides that “acts that are generally recognized as offences by national criminal laws will normally also be considered violations of the standards of conduct for the international civil service”, previously states that “[a] conviction by a national court will usually, although not always, be persuasive evidence of the act for which an international civil servant was prosecuted”.
The complainant argues that the principle set out in the second phrase concerning the probative value of convictions by national courts applies, in the words of that phrase, only “generally” and “not always”, and submits that, in the present case, the ILO was in a situation where it should have invoked that exception rather than accepting the offences of which he was accused as proven. However, it is well known that this restriction, placed on the principle in question when the Rules were adopted, was solely intended by the drafters to reserve the case of convictions in States where the courts do not offer the requisite safeguards of independence and procedural fairness. Since there is no doubt that the French legal system fulfils that requirement, the Organization – whose role plainly is not to assess whether a conviction by a national court is justified and which does not have the means to investigate conduct such as that in question in the present case by itself – rightly relied on the judgment of the Tribunal correctionnel and considered that the offences of which he had been accused had been proven.
Keywords:
conduct; criminal sanction; disciplinary procedure; domestic law; evidence;
Consideration 24
Extract:
[I]t should be recalled that, while international organisations cannot intrude on the private lives of their staff members, those staff members must nonetheless comply with the requirements inherent in their status as international civil servants, including in their personal conduct. This principle is, for example, laid down in paragraph 42 of the Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service, which expressly states that “[i]nternational civil servants must [...] bear in mind that their conduct and activities outside the workplace, even if unrelated to official duties, can compromise the image and the interests of the organizations”. In the case of ILO officials, this principle also applies, in particular, pursuant to article 1.2 of the Staff Regulations, which states that “[o]fficials shall conduct themselves at all times in a manner befitting their status as international civil servants” and “[t]hey shall avoid any action [...] which may adversely reflect on their status”.
Furthermore, the Tribunal has repeatedly stated in its case law that some private conduct may, on this account, legitimately lead to disciplinary action (see, for example, Judgments 1584, consideration 9, 2944, considerations 44 to 49, or 3602, consideration 13).
Moreover, it should be observed that, insofar as the acts of which the complainant was accused in this case constituted a criminal offence, they cannot be regarded, by definition, as being purely private in nature.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 1584, 2944, 3602
Keywords:
conduct; disciplinary procedure; private life;
Judgment 4089
127th Session, 2019
International Atomic Energy Agency
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the decision not to extend her appointment beyond the statutory retirement age.
Consideration 7
Extract:
[I]t was open to the Director General to view the complainant’s conduct giving rise to and the subsequent conduct in relation to the judgment debt as falling short of the standards demanded of international civil servants. Accordingly, and subject to the various legal arguments of the complainant, it was open to the Director General to conclude it was not in the interests of the Agency to extend the complainant’s appointment beyond the mandatory retirement age.
Keywords:
age limit; conduct; discretion; extension beyond retirement age; organisation's interest; retirement; staff member's duties;
Judgment 4077
127th Session, 2019
Universal Postal Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The UPU applies for interpretation and review of Judgment 3928 alleging errors of fact, inter alia, and asserts that it is impossible to give effect to the Tribunal’s order to reinstate the complainant. The complainant applies for execution of Judgment 3928.
Consideration 25
Extract:
The proper exercise by a staff member of her or his right to bring a complaint to the Tribunal should not be held against her or him or found criticism of her or his conduct.
Keywords:
conduct;
Judgment 3928
125th Session, 2018
Universal Postal Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the decisions to abolish his post and to terminate his appointment while he was on sick leave.
Consideration 19
Extract:
To contest the complainant’s assertion of being a “competent and loyal” staff member, the UPU improperly cites the fact that the complainant had filed two previous complaints with the Tribunal. The Tribunal notes that staff members have the right to bring complaints alleging non-observance, in substance or in form, of the terms of their appointment and of the provisions of the Service Regulations, in accordance with the provisions of Article II of the Statute of the Tribunal. International organisations shall not hold the proper exercising of that right against the staff member.
Reference(s)
ILOAT reference: Article II of the Statute
Keywords:
conduct; right of appeal;
Judgment 3321
117th Session, 2014
International Labour Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the Director-General’s decision not to grant him personal promotion.
Considerations 12 & 14
Extract:
In addition to the anomalies just highlighted, which chiefly concern the conditions under which the complainant’s performance was examined, a further aberration was such as to undermine the lawfulness of the assessment of his conduct.
In his rejoinder the complainant draws attention to the fact that on 20 April 2000 he received a warning, which ought to have been withdrawn from his personal file after three years, in accordance with Article 12.3 of the Staff Regulations, and he contends that it would therefore not have been lawful to take account of this sanction in the disputed promotion exercise.
[...]
However, there is no reason for the Tribunal to order the grant of personal promotion requested by the complainant, nor is it appropriate, in the circumstances of this case, to refer the matter back to the Organization for review.
It is clear from the submissions in the file that, between 2000 and 2003, the complainant’s attitude towards his immediate supervisor had been one of insubordination and open animosity which, as the Tribunal already noted in the above-mentioned Judgment 2468, was not what might be expected of an international civil servant. The deletion of the sanction imposed on the complainant on 20 April 2000 cannot per se disguise the existence of this unacceptable conduct, which remains a fact. Since the applicable provisions require satisfactory conduct on the part of the official in his or her last grade, this factor alone manifestly prevented the grant of personal promotion to the complainant in the 2008 exercise.
Keywords:
conduct; official;
Judgment 3233
115th Session, 2013
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant contends that she was the victim of discrimination and harassment.
Consideration 6
Extract:
"An unlawful decision or unsatisfactory conduct is not sufficient in itself to constitute harassment (see Judgment 2861, under 37). The question as to whether or not harassment has occurred must be determined in the light of a careful examination of all the objective circumstances surrounding the events complained of (see Judgment 2553, under 6). There is no need to prove that the perpetrator of the acts in question intended to engage in harassment (see Judgment 2524, under 25), and the Tribunal’s case law has always required that an allegation of harassment must be borne out by specific acts, the burden of proof being on the person who pleads it, it being understood that an accumulation of events over time may be cited in support of such an allegation (see Judgment 2100, under 13)."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 2100, 2524, 2553, 2861
Keywords:
burden of proof; conduct; definition; flaw; harassment; official;
Judgment 3166
114th Session, 2013
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant alleges that he suffered harassment, mobbing and defamation on the part of his supervisors.
Consideration 17
Extract:
"[T]he JAC appears to have retreated from making the ultimate finding of harassment because the complainant’s own attitude “can be construed as ‘a reasonable explanation for the conduct in question’”. The unexpressed assumption in this conclusion is that it is a legitimate response from a senior manager for the latter to intimidate a staff member who challenges, perhaps even inappropriately, his decisions. [...] It cannot be that intimidation by a senior manager is a reasonable response to a subordinate (including a senior subordinate), even if the latter exceeds his or her role by challenging decisions of the manager. In this respect, the JAC erred in its consideration of the complainant’s grievances. There can, of course, be situations where a subordinate’s refusal to accept the authority of his supervisor provides a complete explanation for the conduct of the supervisor. An example is found in the Tribunal’s Judgment 2468. However, in this case the JAC’s findings [relate to] conduct that cannot be explained away on this basis."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 2468
Keywords:
advisory body; advisory opinion; conduct; decision; definition; flaw; harassment; insubordination; supervisor; working relations;
Judgment 3106
113th Session, 2012
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 7
Extract:
The principle of freedom of association "precludes interference by an organisation in the affairs of its staff union or the organs of its staff union (see Judgment 2100, under 15). A staff union must be free to conduct its own affairs, to regulate its own activities and, also, to regulate the conduct of its members in relation to those affairs and activities. Thus, it was said in Judgment 274, under 22, that “[t]here could be no true freedom of association if the disapproval of the Director General, whether justified or not, of what was said [in an open letter issued in connection with a staff union referendum] could lead to disciplinary measures”. Further, an organisation must remain neutral when differences of opinion emerge within a staff union: it must not favour one group or one point of view over another. To do so would be to diminish the right of a staff union to conduct its own affairs and to regulate its own activities. Nor does an organisation have any legitimate interest in the actions of staff members in their dealings with their staff union and/or other staff union members with respect to the affairs and activities of the union. Thus, it was said in Judgment 274, under 22, that “[a] staff member’s conduct of [his] private life is not the concern of the Director-General [unless it] brings the Organization into disrepute”, and that trade union activities “likewise constitute an area that is ‘prima facie’ outside the Director- General’s jurisdiction”, although “there may be exceptional cases”."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 274, 2100
Keywords:
breach; competence; conduct; difference; disciplinary measure; executive head; freedom of association; organisation's duties; organisation's interest; organisation's reputation; outside activity; right; staff union; staff union activity;
Judgment 3083
112th Session, 2012
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 10
Extract:
"[T]he Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service provide that international civil servants "should avoid assisting private bodies or persons in their dealings with their organization where this might lead to actual or perceived preferential treatment" and they "should [...] voluntarily disclose in advance possible conflicts of interest that arise in the course of carrying out their duties". The complainant argues that "should" is aspirational in nature and not mandatory. This argument must be rejected."
Keywords:
conduct; international civil service principles; official; staff member's duties;
Judgment 3038
111th Session, 2011
World Health Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 20
Extract:
Failure of the parties to reach agreement on the amount of compensation owed to the complainant for the termination of his appointment following a flawed reassignment procedure.
"The Tribunal finds that the inordinate delay on the part of the Organization, and its conduct during the negotiations, do not reflect the duty that is incumbent on an organisation to negotiate in good faith, or the care it should take in the implementation of a decision. These matters warrant an award of moral damages."
Keywords:
compensation; conduct; delay; duty of care; good faith; moral injury; organisation; organisation's duties; settlement out of court;
Judgment 2944
109th Session, 2010
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 48
Extract:
"[B]reaches of private financial obligations on the part of international civil servants are incompatible with the rules of conduct by which they must abide (see, for example Judgments 53, under 7, 1480, under 3, or 1584, under 9)."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 53, 1480, 1584
Keywords:
breach; conduct; debt; misconduct; staff member's duties; written rule;
Judgment 2773
106th Session, 2009
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 25
Extract:
"The Tribunal also notes that the fact - which greatly surprises the complainant - that the UN did not consider it necessary to initiate proceedings against the other staff members whose conduct was criticised by the OIOS has no bearing on the lawfulness of the measure applied to the complainant in respect of the acts of which he is personally accused, since they are proven and imputable to him (see for example Judgments 207, 1271, 1977 or 2555)."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 207, 1271, 1977, 2555
Keywords:
conduct; disciplinary measure; equal treatment; misconduct; official; staff member's duties;
Judgment 2752
105th Session, 2008
International Atomic Energy Agency
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 15
Extract:
"The Tribunal exercises only a limited power of review in the case of warnings or reprimands which are not of a disciplinary nature. As pointed out in Judgments 274 and 403:
'The Tribunal will not interfere unless the measure was taken without authority, or violates a rule of form or procedure, or is based on an error of fact or of law, or if essential facts have not been taken into consideration, or if it is tainted with abuse of authority, or if a clearly mistaken conclusion has been drawn from the facts.'
In Judgment 274 it was also explained that '[a] warning or reprimand must be based on unsatisfactory conduct since what it is saying in effect is that if the conduct is repeated a disciplinary measure may be taken'."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 274, 403
Keywords:
abuse of power; censure; condition; conduct; disciplinary measure; disregard of essential fact; formal flaw; grounds; judicial review; limits; mistake of fact; mistaken conclusion; misuse of authority; procedural flaw; reprimand; unsatisfactory service; warning;
Judgment 2751
105th Session, 2008
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 4
Extract:
"[A] claim may be made and pursued against an organisation if its conduct in proceedings before an internal appeals body or this Tribunal constitutes an abuse of process or a perversion of the right of reply."
Keywords:
abuse of power; conduct; iloat; internal appeals body; misuse of authority; organisation; procedural flaw; procedure before the tribunal; reply; right;
Judgment 2745
105th Session, 2008
International Atomic Energy Agency
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Consideration 19
Extract:
"It was said in Judgment 2524 that, although harassment and mobbing do not require bad faith or prejudice or other malicious intent, 'behaviour will not be characterised as harassment or mobbing if there is a reasonable explanation for the conduct in question'. Thus, it was said in Judgment 2370 that conduct that 'had a valid managerial purpose or was the result of honest mistake, or even mere inefficiency' would not constitute harassment. However and as pointed out in Judgment 2524, 'an explanation which is prima facie reasonable may be rejected if there is evidence of ill will or prejudice or if the behaviour in question is disproportionate to the matter which is said to have prompted the course taken'."
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 2370, 2524
Keywords:
bias; condition; conduct; consequence; definition; evidence; good faith; grounds; intention of parties; judgment of the tribunal; mistake of fact; organisation's duties; proportionality; qualifications; respect for dignity;
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