Change of rules (881,-666)

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Keywords: Change of rules
Total judgments found: 6

• 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.

  Consideration 13

  Extract:

  Il ressort [...] du dossier que les nouvelles règles, [..], résultant de la décision CA/D 8/16 visaient à renforcer l’indépendance des membres des chambres de recours, à simplifier le régime de carrière applicables à ceux-ci et à assurer la cohérence de ce régime avec les principes du nouveau système de carrière issu de la décision CA/D 10/14. De tels objectifs ne sauraient être regardés comme déraisonnables. En outre, il convient de relever que, si le requérant soutient que certaines des dispositions adoptées n’auraient pas été pertinentes au regard de ces objectifs, le dossier ne fait pas apparaître que celles-ci aient procédé d’un abus de la liberté d’appréciation reconnue à l’Organisation dans ce domaine [...].

  Keywords:

  career; change of rules; discretion; organisation's interest;
  

  
  
  

• 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.

  Consideration 12

  Extract:

  [I]l convient de rappeler que la jurisprudence du Tribunal reconnaît aux organisations internationales un large pouvoir d’appréciation quant à la détermination des structures salariales ou des modalités de déroulement des carrières, qui relève de la politique générale de gestion du personnel que celles-ci ont la liberté de conduire conformément à leurs intérêts (voir, par exemple, les jugements 5072, au considérant 9, 4889, au considérant 9, 4274, au considérant 15, ou 3275, au considérant 8). Les décisions prises par une organisation dans ce domaine ne sauraient donc être censurées qu’en cas d’erreur manifeste caractérisant un abus de ce pouvoir d’appréciation.

  Reference(s)

  ILOAT Judgment(s): 3275, 4274, 4889, 5072
  

  Keywords:

  change of rules; manifest error;
  

  
  
  

• Judgment 4958

  
  139th Session, 2025
  European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
  Extracts: EN, FR
  Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
  Summary: The complainants contest Eurocontrol’s implied decision to reject their request to be paid the flat-rate shift allowance in lieu of the ancillary remuneration currently paid to them for the shift work they perform.

  Consideration 8

  Extract:

  The complainants seek to avoid the consequences of Attachment 4 to Office Notice No. 20/06 by calling in aid the principle of clausula rebus sic stantibus. This Latin expression refers to a principle whereby a clause in a contract or treaty is to be treated as ineffective or inoperative because there had been a fundamental change in circumstances. Even if this principle permits the Tribunal to ignore express provisions in normative and statutory texts or treat their terms as modified, which may be doubted, the principle’s application depends on the complainants producing evidence of new, unforeseen circumstances, which would have required notional revision of the express provisions (see Judgment 1879, consideration 7(c)). In this matter, the complainants have singularly failed to do so.

  Reference(s)

  ILOAT Judgment(s): 1879
  

  Keywords:

  allowance; change of rules; overtime; rules of the organisation; written rule;
  

  
  
  

• 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 9

  Extract:

  As regards the arguments contesting the need for the reform, it is not for the Tribunal, in any event, to review the advisability or merits of the changes which an international organisation wishes to make to salary structures or to the arrangements for career progression, that form part of general staff management policy which an organisation is free to pursue in accordance with its interests (see, for example, Judgments 4274, consideration 15, or 3275, consideration 8).

  Reference(s)

  ILOAT Judgment(s): 3275, 4274
  

  Keywords:

  change of rules; organisation's interest;
  

  
  
  

• Judgment 4250

  
  129th Session, 2020
  International Labour Organization
  Extracts: EN, FR
  Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
  Summary: The complainant contests the decision not to grant him the requested paid parental leave upon the birth of his child by surrogacy.

  Consideration 3

  Extract:

  The Tribunal observes that the complainant is basically advocating for a change in the rules and does not make any specific claim in that respect. Accordingly these statements, which are of a general nature serve unclear purposes, and the Tribunal cannot address them.

  Keywords:

  change of rules; competence of tribunal; discrimination;
  

  
  
  

• Judgment 3275

  
  116th Session, 2014
  European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation
  Extracts: EN, FR
  Full Judgment Text: EN, FR
  Summary: The complainants challenge the reclassification of their posts as inadequate, not equivalent to their former positions and depriving them of any career advancement.

  Consideration 8

  Extract:

  It must be recalled that the Tribunal is not competent to review the advisability or merits of the changes which Eurocontrol has introduced in its staff management, for they form part of general employment policy which an organisation is free to pursue in accordance with its general interests (see Judgment 3225, under 6).

  Reference(s)

  ILOAT Judgment(s): 3225
  

  Keywords:

  change of rules; organisation's interest;