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L'UNAT a jug¨¦ que la d¨¦cision contest¨¦e ¨¦tait l¨¦gale. Il a estim¨¦ que le TFP avait correctement analys¨¦ les ¨¦l¨¦ments de preuve pr¨¦sent¨¦s, en motivant de mani¨¨re d¨¦taill¨¦e l'acceptation ou le rejet du t¨¦moignage de chaque t¨¦moin et, surtout, en tenant compte de l'aveu par le fonctionnaire de nombreux faits essentiels. Il s'agissait notamment de reconna?tre : l'existence de tensions entre lui-m¨ºme et les membres du personnel international et national ; qu'il ¨¦tait probablement trop exigeant en tant que sup¨¦rieur hi¨¦rarchique ; qu'il avait ¨¦lev¨¦ la voix au travail ; qu'il avait fait r¨¦f¨¦rence aux...

The UNAT noted that months after the death of the participant in the Fund, the Appellant had produced Pens.A/2 forms purporting to change the designation of the beneficiary of the residual settlement, executed by a thumbprint and not the participant¡¯s signature. The UNAT also noted the medical evidence of signs of the participant¡¯s dementia.

The UNAT found that the Appellant had provided no evidence to support the contention that the participant¡¯s mental capacity had improved by the time of thumbprinting the later forms. The UNAT held that the Fund had not erred when it found those forms...

The UNAT noted that the Agency had removed the disputed Note from the staff member¡¯s Official Status File and provided him with his requested certificate of service and performance evaluations. The UNAT found that the appeal in the respective part had therefore become moot.

The UNAT held that even if the issue were not moot, it was not persuaded that the UNWRA DT had exercised its discretion injudiciously or otherwise erred. The UNAT noted that in its earlier Judgment it had found that the Agency had no obligation to partially execute that first UNRWA DT Judgment.

The UNAT found that the staff...

The UNAT held that, since the purpose of compensation in lieu is to place a staff member in the same position he or she would have been had the Organization complied with its contractual obligations, the net base salary to be paid in accordance with the UNAT Judgment was the net base salary that the former staff member would have earned at the date of the contested decision and his separation from service, namely 20 May 2021. Therefore, the UNAT concluded that the Secretary-General¡¯s calculation of two years¡¯ net base salary was appropriate.

The UNAT further held that the deductions made for...

The UNAT noted that the vacancy had been advertised for only ten days which violated the mandatory requirement of the UNRWA Personnel Directive, and this violation had been corrected by cancelling the recruitment process and constituting another one that met the requirement of the minimum posting period.

The UNAT held that the staff member had not identified the alleged defects of the impugned Judgment but rather had reargued his case and, therefore, had not discharged his burden of satisfying the Appeals Tribunal that the impugned Judgment had been in error.

The UNAT was of the view that, in...

The UNAT noted that the staff member¡¯s letter regarding early retirement was to be considered a letter of resignation. The UNAT noted that a few months later she had sent another letter to the Administration requesting to withdraw her resignation. The UNAT found that the UNDT had not erred in law when it identified the contested decision as the decision not to accept the staff member¡¯s withdrawal of her resignation, and the UNDT¡¯s approach had not caused prejudice to her as it had been able to examine all her contentions.

The UNAT held that the staff member¡¯s resignation produced its legal...

The UNAT noted that in its calculation of the reduction of the beneficiary¡¯s retirement benefit, the Pension Fund had determined the rate of the overall cost-of-living adjustment due to benefits in accordance with the movement in the US consumer price index since the date of the last adjustment to be 6.4 per cent. The UNAT observed that the Fund had then prorated the overall adjustment rate in proportion to the length of time the beneficiary¡¯s retirement benefit had been in payment and had determined that the inflationary adjustment due to him was 7/12 of 6.4 per cent, equal to 3.7 per cent...

The UNAT held that the contested decision was lawful. It held that the UNDT appropriately analysed the evidence presented, providing detailed reasons for accepting or rejecting each witness¡¯s testimony and, importantly, considered the staff member¡¯s admission of many of the key facts. These included acknowledging that: tensions existed between himself and both staff and national staff members; he was probably too demanding as a manager; he raised his voice at work; he referred to the sects of certain national staff members; he had difficult interpersonal issues with Complainant 1; he...

The UNAT held that the UNDT erred in suggesting that it was the former staff member¡¯s burden to provide evidence to support his assertion that his request for review had been pending before the Dispute Tribunal since July 2009 and to produce a record of his case having been transferred to it from the JDC in July 2009.

The UNAT further held that the Administration¡¯s response, that his claim was closed due to his failure to pursue it for over 12 years, was neither an administrative decision, nor was it the Administration¡¯s prerogative to make regarding the judicial proceeding. The Administration...

The UNAT held that even though the Commissioner-General had mistakenly reimbursed the fine to Mr. El-Haj after the issuance of the UNRWA DT Judgment, since the fine was subsequently reimposed, the appeal was not moot.

The UNAT held that in order to find that a staff member¡¯s conduct was ¡°serious misconduct¡± so as to warrant a more serious sanction, the Commissioner-General had to provide reasons for this determination. In this case, the Commissioner-General provided no reasons, and the UNAT rejected the Commissioner-General¡¯s argument that reasons were not necessary because it was manifestly...

The Appeals Tribunal analyzed the text of Appendix D, from the 1966 version, and concluded that: (a) widows are eligible to receive compensation at a rate of two-fifths of a deceased staff member¡¯s annual salary; (b) if the deceased staff member is survived by more than one widow, the compensation shall be split evenly between the widows; (c) all pension benefits paid through the staff member¡¯s UNJSPF entitlement shall be deducted from the compensation paid under Appendix D; and the deduction shall not reduce the amount of Appendix D compensation otherwise payable to less than 10 per cent of...

The UNAT expressed serious concern about the lack of a sufficient record of reasons supporting the choice of the selected candidate over the staff member at the time of the contested decision.

The UNAT found that gender and geographical considerations were unevenly applied in the selection exercise, positively assessing the British male while ignoring or discounting that the staff member was an Indian female. Contrary to Staff Regulation 4.4, in which the fullest regard should be given to internal candidates, the UNAT found that her UN experience was used to disadvantage her. The UNAT also...

L'UNAT a not¨¦ que la demande de mutation du membre du personnel avait ¨¦t¨¦ approuv¨¦e par le bureau ext¨¦rieur de Cisjordanie, mais que le bureau ext¨¦rieur de Jordanie avait par la suite inform¨¦ que la demande ne pouvait ¨ºtre accept¨¦e en raison d'un engagement pris dans le cadre de la feuille de route concernant l'embauche de travailleurs journaliers ¨¤ des postes ¨¤ dur¨¦e d¨¦termin¨¦e.

L'UNAT a estim¨¦ que le Commissaire g¨¦n¨¦ral avait d¨¦montr¨¦ les efforts d¨¦ploy¨¦s par les deux bureaux ext¨¦rieurs pour traiter la demande de transfert et que l'Agence s'¨¦tait acquitt¨¦e de son obligation de prouver que la...

The UNAT noted that the staff member¡¯s transfer request had been approved by the West Bank Field Office but the Jordan Field Office had subsequently informed that the request could not be accommodated due to a commitment to the roadmap on hiring daily-paid workers in fixed-term posts.

The UNAT held that the Commissioner-General had demonstrated the efforts made by both Field Offices to process the transfer request and the Agency¡¯s burden to show that the request had been given full and fair consideration was satisfied. The UNAT found that the staff member had not discharged the burden of...

Le Tribunal d'appel a estim¨¦ que, dans son traitement rigide des preuves relatives au comportement d'AAY, l'UNDT n'a pas tenu compte de ce qu'avait admis AAY lorsqu'il avait ¨¦t¨¦ interrog¨¦ par le Bureau des services de contr?le interne. Le fait qu'AAY ait choisi de ne pas t¨¦moigner lors de l'audition de l'UNDT montre clairement qu'il s'en tient ¨¤ la d¨¦claration qu'il a faite aux enqu¨ºteurs du BSCI. L'UNDT ¨¦tait tenue de prendre en compte cette preuve incontest¨¦e de sa part dans son ¨¦valuation de la preuve de la faute commise ¨¤ son encontre, d'autant plus qu'il n'a pas choisi de t¨¦moigner...

Le TANU a estim¨¦ que le Tribunal avait commis une erreur de fait, entra?nant une d¨¦cision manifestement d¨¦raisonnable, lorsqu'il a constat¨¦ qu'une d¨¦cision de licenciement avait ¨¦t¨¦ prise le 1er avril 2022. ? cet ¨¦gard, le TANU a constat¨¦ que la d¨¦cision de placer une note dans le dossier administratif de l'ancien fonctionnaire avait ¨¦t¨¦ prise le 1er avril 2022, mais que la d¨¦cision de licenciement avait en fait ¨¦t¨¦ prise le 11 mars 2022. Par cons¨¦quent, le TANU aurait d? identifier l'une ou l'autre d¨¦cision comme ¨¦tant la d¨¦cision contest¨¦e, mais il a commis une erreur en suivant l...

Le TANU a estim¨¦ que le Tribunal n'avait pas commis d'erreur en concluant que l'acte du fonctionnaire consistant ¨¤ offrir un jouet sexuel ¨¤ un subordonn¨¦ ¨¦tait inappropri¨¦, car il transgressait la fronti¨¨re entre la vie professionnelle et la vie personnelle du subordonn¨¦, m¨ºme si l'¨¦v¨¦nement s'¨¦tait d¨¦roul¨¦ en priv¨¦. Qu'il ait ¨¦t¨¦ sollicit¨¦ ou non, il pouvait avoir un impact n¨¦gatif sur l'image et les int¨¦r¨ºts de l'Organisation. Par cons¨¦quent, le TANU a conclu qu'en agissant de la sorte, l'agent n'avait pas respect¨¦ les normes requises pour son r?le de gestionnaire.

Le TANU a ¨¦galement estim¨¦...

Le TANU a not¨¦ qu'avant que le requ¨¦rant ne devienne membre du personnel, il avait ¨¦t¨¦ employ¨¦ par l'UNRWA en tant que personnel compl¨¦mentaire n'ayant pas le statut de membre du personnel et qu'il n'avait droit ¨¤ aucune prestation au-del¨¤ de ce qui avait ¨¦t¨¦ ¨¦tabli pour les travailleurs r¨¦mun¨¦r¨¦s ¨¤ la journ¨¦e. Le TANU a observ¨¦ que ni ses contrats de service ¨¤ la journ¨¦e ni un ¨¦chantillon de contrats de service ¨¤ la journ¨¦e applicables ¨¤ l'¨¦poque ne mentionnaient le paiement d'une quelconque indemnit¨¦ ¨¤ l'expiration.

Le TANU a constat¨¦ qu'¨¤ chaque expiration du contrat de services journaliers...

Le TANU a estim¨¦ que le pr¨¦sident du Conseil de l'OACI, en prenant la d¨¦cision de ne pas approuver la nomination de l'agent au poste, avait tenu compte de consid¨¦rations pertinentes : l'agent avait fait l'objet d'une ¨¦valuation n¨¦gative de la part du jury d'entretien et du centre d'¨¦valuation, et pr¨¦sentait de graves faiblesses dans les domaines de la vision et d'autres comp¨¦tences essentielles pour l'OACI. Le TANU a estim¨¦ que les raisons invoqu¨¦es par le pr¨¦sident ¨¦taient conformes aux faits.

Le TANU a estim¨¦ que, bien que le pr¨¦sident ait discut¨¦ de la question avec certains membres du jury...

Le TANU a estim¨¦ que l'ancienne fonctionnaire n'avait aucune esp¨¦rance l¨¦gitime de renouvellement de son engagement ¨¤ dur¨¦e d¨¦termin¨¦e, ¨¦tant donn¨¦ qu'il n'y avait aucune preuve que l'administration avait fait une promesse expresse qui aurait pu cr¨¦er une telle esp¨¦rance. Au contraire, le TANU a constat¨¦ que l'administration avait d?ment inform¨¦ tous les membres du personnel concern¨¦s, y compris l'ancienne employ¨¦e, de la date de fin du projet MADAD et qu'elle avait publi¨¦ 15 postes d'employ¨¦s de bureau en interne, en invitant le personnel ¨¤ postuler ¨¤ d'autres postes. Le TANU a ¨¦galement...