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Le Tribunal d'appel a estim¨¦, en ce qui concerne l'exclusion de M. Qasem de la consid¨¦ration pour le poste de chef int¨¦rimaire, que le DT de l'UNRWA avait commis une erreur en estimant que la candidature de M. Qasem n'¨¦tait pas recevable.Le Tribunal d'appel a toutefois estim¨¦ que, dans les circonstances de l'esp¨¨ce, il ¨¦tait dans l'int¨¦r¨ºt de l'¨¦conomie judiciaire de r¨¦examiner l'affaire sur le fond sans renvoi.Le Tribunal d'appel a estim¨¦ que si l'administration avait ill¨¦galement exclu la candidature de M. Qasem de l'examen, cette irr¨¦gularit¨¦ n'avait eu aucune incidence sur la d¨¦cision de...

The Appeals Tribunal found, in relation to Mr. Qasem¡¯s exclusion from consideration for the Acting Head position, that the UNRWA DT erred in finding Mr. Qasem¡¯s application not receivable. The Appeals Tribunal however found that in the circumstances of this case, it was in the interest of judicial economy to review the case on the merits without remand. The Appeals Tribunal found that while the Administration had unlawfully excluded Mr. Qasem¡¯s application from consideration, this irregularity had no impact on the selection decision. Considering Mr. Qasem¡¯s performance, administrative and...

Le TANU n'a pas trouv¨¦ d'erreur dans le fait que l'UNDT s'est appuy¨¦ sur la communication entre l'agent et son avocat pour ¨¦tablir qu'elle avait fourni de fausses informations dans ses demandes de remboursement de frais m¨¦dicaux.Le TANU a not¨¦ que l'avocat de la fonctionnaire avait volontairement joint le document confidentiel ¨¤ sa demande. Le TANU a observ¨¦ qu'elle n'avait impos¨¦ aucune limite ou r¨¦serve ¨¤ l'utilisation du document par l'UNDT et qu'elle s'y ¨¦tait r¨¦f¨¦r¨¦e ¨¤ de nombreuses reprises au cours de la proc¨¦dure. Le TANU a reconnu qu'elle avait renonc¨¦ ¨¤ son droit ¨¤ la confidentialit¨¦...

The UNAT found no error in the UNDT¡¯s reliance on the communication between the staff member and her attorney when it established that she had submitted false information in her claims for reimbursement for medical expenses. The UNAT noted that her attorney had voluntarily submitted the privileged document as an attachment to her application. The UNAT observed that she had not imposed any limitations or reservations on the UNDT¡¯s use of the document and had referred to it on multiple occasions in the course of the proceedings. The UNAT agreed that she had waived her right to confidentiality...

Le TANU a estim¨¦ que l'UNDT avait correctement identifi¨¦ le PNUD comme le d¨¦fendeur dans la pr¨¦sente affaire, car c'est le PNUD qui g¨¦rait le poste de l'agent et qui ¨¦tait donc son employeur. Le TANU a estim¨¦ que la demande de l'agent ¨¦tait pr¨¦matur¨¦e parce qu'il l'avait d¨¦pos¨¦e avant d'avoir re?u la r¨¦ponse de l'¨¦valuation de la gestion, ou du moins avant l'expiration du d¨¦lai de r¨¦ception de cette r¨¦ponse. Le TANU a ¨¦galement conclu que la r¨¦ponse ¨¤ l'¨¦valuation de la gestion ne constituait pas la d¨¦cision administrative contest¨¦e.
Le TANU a rejet¨¦ l'appel et confirm¨¦ le jugement n¡ã UNDT...

The UNAT held that the UNDT correctly identified UNDP as the respondent in the present case because it was UNDP that administered the staff member¡¯s position and was therefore his employer. The UNAT found that the staff member¡¯s application was premature because he filed it before receiving the management evaluation response, or at least before the expiration of the delay for receiving that response. The UNAT also concluded that the management evaluation response did not constitute the contested administrative decision.

The UNAT dismissed the appeal and affirmed Judgment No. UNDT/2023/036...

Le Tribunal d'appel a estim¨¦ que le TDFNU n'avait pas commis d'erreur en consid¨¦rant que le responsable du recrutement avait correctement ¨¦valu¨¦ que les certificats que la candidate s¨¦lectionn¨¦e avait mentionn¨¦s dans sa notice personnelle ¨¦taient ¨¦quivalents ¨¤ une certification Lean Six Sigma (LSS). L'une des exigences en mati¨¨re de formation pour le poste ¨¦tait la certification LSS ou une ? certification ¨¦quivalente ?. En l'esp¨¨ce, le Tribunal a conclu ¨¤ juste titre que le responsable du recrutement avait correctement ¨¦valu¨¦ que les certificats que la candidate s¨¦lectionn¨¦e avait mentionn¨¦s...

The Appeals Tribunal found that the UNDT did not err in holding that the Hiring Manager had correctly assessed that the certificates the selected candidate had listed in her Personal History Profile (PHP) were equivalent to a Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Certification. One of the educational requirements for the position was the LSS certification or an ¡°equivalent certification¡±. In the present case, the UNDT correctly concluded that the Hiring Manager had properly assessed that the certificates the selected candidate had listed in her PHP were equivalent to an LSS certification, as required for...

Le TANU a estim¨¦ que l'agent avait eu amplement l'occasion de commenter son transfert lat¨¦ral. Le TANU a not¨¦ qu'elle avait ¨¦t¨¦ inform¨¦e de la recommandation de la s¨¦parer de son premier sup¨¦rieur hi¨¦rarchique, contre lequel elle avait d¨¦pos¨¦ une plainte pour conduite prohib¨¦e, et qu'elle avait eu l'occasion d'exprimer ses pr¨¦occupations.
Le TANU a reconnu que les responsabilit¨¦s et les fonctions du nouveau poste correspondaient aux comp¨¦tences, aux aptitudes et ¨¤ l'exp¨¦rience de l'agent. Le TANU a estim¨¦ qu'il n'y avait pas eu de risque accru pour sa s¨¦curit¨¦ d'emploi future et qu'elle n...

The UNAT held that the staff member had had ample opportunity to comment on her lateral transfer. The UNAT noted that she had been aware of the recommendation to separate her from her First Reporting Officer, against whom she had made a complaint of prohibited conduct, and had had the opportunity to voice her concerns and also had been informed of the reassignment decision nearly a month before she took up the new post.

The UNAT accepted that the responsibilities and job functions of the new post had been commensurate with the staff member¡¯s competence, skills, and experience. The UNAT found...

Le TANU a estim¨¦ que la d¨¦cision administrative concernant les remboursements ¨¤ l'agent a pris effet en droit le 7 mai 2019, date ¨¤ laquelle il a re?u le virement de l'Organisation. Les raisons de ce montant de remboursement ont ¨¦t¨¦ discut¨¦es avec lui peu de temps avant que le virement ne soit effectu¨¦. Bien que les explications des calculs sous-jacents aient ¨¦t¨¦ r¨¦p¨¦t¨¦es dans des ¨¦changes de courriels ult¨¦rieurs avec le membre du personnel, ces r¨¦p¨¦titions ne constituaient pas des d¨¦cisions administratives suppl¨¦mentaires ou nouvelles susceptibles d'¨ºtre contest¨¦es par le membre du...

The UNAT held that the administrative decision concerning reimbursements to the staff member took effect in law on 7 May 2019, when he received the wire transfer from the Organization. The reasons for this reimbursement amount were discussed with him shortly before the wire transfer was made. Although explanations of the underlying calculations were repeated in subsequent email exchanges with the staff member, those repetitions were not additional or new administrative decisions that were open to challenge by the staff member, thereby resetting the statute of limitations.

The UNAT found...

Le TANU a estim¨¦ que le DT de l'UNRWA avait commis une erreur en regroupant les sept affaires. Les affaires consolid¨¦es impliquaient des d¨¦cisions administratives uniques, et ces d¨¦cisions n'impliquaient ni une politique administrative commune, ni un ensemble de faits communs. La nature des fautes attribu¨¦es aux membres du personnel n'¨¦tait pas la m¨ºme dans tous les cas. Les cas concernaient des membres du personnel de diff¨¦rents bureaux locaux de l'UNRWA. Les mesures disciplinaires prises n'¨¦taient pas identiques d'un cas ¨¤ l'autre, mais comprenaient un large ¨¦ventail de sanctions. Les...

The UNAT held that the UNRWA DT erred in consolidating the seven cases. The consolidated cases involved unique administrative decisions, and those decisions involved neither a common administrative policy nor a common set of facts. The nature of the misconduct attributed to the staff members was not similar among the cases. The cases concerned staff from different UNRWA field offices. The disciplinary measures taken were not identical among the cases, but included a wide range of penalties. The standards of proof for the misconduct alleged in case varied.

The UNAT disagreed with the...

Le TANU a estim¨¦ que M. Safi ne s'¨¦tait pas acquitt¨¦ de la charge qui lui incombait d'identifier en quoi et pour quelles raisons le DT de l'UNRWA avait commis une erreur dans son jugement. M. Safi s'est content¨¦ de r¨¦it¨¦rer les m¨ºmes arguments que ceux qu'il avait pr¨¦sent¨¦s dans sa requ¨ºte au tribunal de l'UNRWA. Le TANU a d¨¦clar¨¦ qu'il ne lui appartenait pas de r¨¦examiner le cas de l'agent et que, par cons¨¦quent, son recours devait ¨ºtre rejet¨¦. Le TANU a ¨¦galement observ¨¦ que le DT de l'UNRWA avait tir¨¦ des conclusions raisonnables de son vaste exercice d'¨¦tablissement des faits et qu'il...

The UNAT held that Mr. Safi failed to discharge his burden in identifying in what respect and for what reasons the UNRWA DT erred in its Judgment. Mr. Safi merely reiterated the same arguments that he had presented in his application to the UNRWA DT. The UNAT stated that it is not its role to reexamine the staff member¡¯s case anew, and accordingly, his appeal must fail. The UNAT also observed that the UNRWA DT drew reasonable inferences from its extensive fact-finding exercise and delivered a well-reasoned judgment.

The appeal was dismissed, and Judgment No. UNRWA/DT/2023/011 was...

Le TANU a pr¨¦cis¨¦ que la seule question ¨¦tait de savoir si le requ¨¦rant, un ancien membre du personnel, avait pr¨¦sent¨¦ un fait nouveau et d¨¦cisif qui lui ¨¦tait inconnu, ainsi qu'au Tribunal d'appel, lorsque l'arr¨ºt ant¨¦rieur du TANU a ¨¦t¨¦ rendu, et que ce fait aurait eu une incidence mat¨¦rielle sur l'issue de cet arr¨ºt.
Le TANU a examin¨¦ les documents soumis par l'ancien fonctionnaire et a conclu qu'ils ¨¦taient tous connus de lui avant le prononc¨¦ de l'arr¨ºt du TANU. L'ancien fonctionnaire a essentiellement r¨¦p¨¦t¨¦ ou ajout¨¦ les m¨ºmes arguments que ceux qu'il avait avanc¨¦s dans son premier...

The UNAT specified that the sole issue was whether the applicant, a former staff member, had presented a new and decisive fact that was unknown to him and the Appeals Tribunal when the prior UNAT Judgment was decided, and that this fact would have materially impacted the outcome of that Judgment.

The UNAT reviewed the documents submitted by the former staff member and concluded that they were all known to him prior to the issuance of the UNAT Judgment. The former staff member essentially repeated or added to the same arguments he made in his original appeal, and the UNAT had already...

Le TANU a not¨¦ que le DT de l'UNRWA avait ordonn¨¦ ¨¤ chaque partie de d¨¦signer un psychiatre, qui ¨¤ son tour devait d¨¦signer un troisi¨¨me psychiatre pour examiner si l'¨¦tat mental de l'agent au moment o¨´ il a commis le cambriolage, dont la condamnation avait ¨¦t¨¦ le motif de sa s¨¦paration dans l'int¨¦r¨ºt de l'Agence. Le Commissaire g¨¦n¨¦ral n'a pas respect¨¦ cette instruction, sans explication, laissant ainsi le DT de l'UNRWA sans information m¨¦dicale sur l'¨¦tat de AAW au moment du cambriolage.
Le TANU a estim¨¦ que le Commissaire g¨¦n¨¦ral avait clairement et manifestement abus¨¦ de la proc¨¦dure par...

The UNAT noted that the UNRWA DT had ordered each party to nominate a psychiatrist, who in turn were to designate a third psychiatrist to review whether the staff member¡¯s mental condition at the time he committed the burglary, sentencing for which had been the grounds for his separation in the interest of the Agency.The Commissioner-General failed to comply with this instruction, without explanation, thereby leaving the UNRWA DT with no medical information about AAW's condition at the time of the burglary.

The UNAT found that the Commissioner-General had clearly and manifestly abused the...