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The UNAT held that the UNDT erred in finding that the Administration had not proven by clear and convincing evidence that Mr. Ammar made the Facebook post because the Inspector General’s Office (IGO) inappropriately discounted the possibility that Mr. Ammar’s Facebook account had been hacked. The UNAT found that the Administration met its burden of establishing that it was highly probable that Mr. Ammar posted the Comment and thus publicly expressed support for an honour killing. The Administration produced uncontradicted evidence that the comment came from Mr. Ammar’s Facebook account and he...

L'UNAT a estimé que le TFP avait correctement déterminé que la décision de non-sélection avait été remplacée et rendue sans objet par l'annulation ultérieure de cette décision par l'Administration, qui avait mis fin au processus de sélection sans que personne ne soit sélectionné pour le poste. Il a conclu qu'à partir de ce moment, la décision de non-sélection avait cessé d'avoir tout effet juridique et ne constituait plus une question en suspens sur laquelle le TFP était compétent pour statuer.

Le TUNAS a en outre affirmé qu'il relevait entièrement de la compétence de l'Administration d'annuler...

The UNAT noted that as per ISA’s Staff Rule the UNAT has the competence to “order an interim measure to provide temporary relief to either party to prevent irreparable harm and to maintain consistency with the decision taken at the first instance level”. The UNAT also has jurisdiction to order interim measures in appropriate cases arising out of an ISA dispute as is the case in Mr. Hall’s Motion.

However, the UNAT found that Mr. Hall had failed to demonstrate that relief by way of interim measures was necessary to prevent irreparable harm and to maintain consistency with the JAB’s decision. Mr...

The UNAT noted that the staff member had filed numerous and confusing claims and applications that had been the subject of various reviews by the Management Evaluation Unit, the UNDT and the UNAT, all of which essentially attempted to ensure that the Administration continued to pay her benefits for medical reasons after expiration of her fixed-term appointment.

The UNAT held that her submissions failed to identify in precise terms a specific administrative decision capable of being reviewed. The UNAT found that the so-called non-decisions or incomplete decisions identified by her were not...

The UNAT found that the UNRWA DT erred when it found Ms. Fakhouri’s application was receivable.

The UNAT held that despite being a staff member, the decision with which Ms. Fakhouri took issue was one which related to the terms of a potential contract not as a staff member but as an independent contractor and therefore the contested decision was not one that was appealable. The UNAT emphasized that Article 2(1)(a) of the UNRWA DT Statute makes clear that appeals can be brought against administrative decisions where such decisions relate to the staff member’s terms of appointment. But the...

L'UNAT a estimé que les procédures appliquées pour pourvoir le poste sollicité par le fonctionnaire étaient conformes aux règles applicables. Bien que l'OCHA ait publié l'offre d'emploi sans restriction préalable aux candidats inscrits sur la liste et ait reçu quelque 151 candidatures, il a finalement décidé de sélectionner un candidat inscrit sur la liste, excluant ainsi le fonctionnaire et de nombreux autres candidats. L'UNAT a estimé que l'Administration était tout à fait en droit de procéder ainsi, car la lecture littérale de la section 9.5 de l'instruction administrative ST/AI/2010/3/Rev...

The UNAT found that Article 9(4) of the UNDT Statute regarding the nature of the judicial review that the UNDT conducts in disciplinary cases did not apply to the instant case as it was adopted after the hearing was held. The parties presented their evidence, including a chronology of agreed facts as well as live testimony, and made their respective post-hearing submissions, under a legal framework where Article 9(4) was not operative and it would be inappropriate, and a denial of due process, to apply a new evidentiary framework at the point of decision, ex post facto.

The UNAT found that...

The UNAT held that the Fund reasonably chose a 30-year timeframe for its statistical analysis to determine whether there were “aberrant results” in terms of pensions received by beneficiaries who had chosen Slovakia as their country of residence. Similarly, the UNAT held that the conclusions drawn by the Fund from the analysis were properly reached, highlighting that the graph showed a wide disparity between resident beneficiaries who separated from 1993 to 2007 and those who separated afterwards, a disparity solely due to differences in separation dates.

The UNAT found that the suspension...

The UNAT noted that the staff member had been notified of the reclassification of the post he encumbered by e-mail without comments on the basis for the decision. The UNAT also noted that he had not been promoted to the reclassified post before separation from service.

The UNAT found that the UNDT had correctly determined that the staff member knew or reasonably should have known by the date he received notification of the reclassification or, at the very latest, by the date the vacancy of the reclassified post was advertised in Inspira, that his post had been reclassified and that he had not...

The UNAT found that there was clear and convincing evidence that Mr. Hunt, in coordination with colleagues, was covertly communicating with a news media reporter on the Investment Fund transaction, the approval process, and the former Representative of the Secretary-General (RSG)’s role and had thereby leaked information to the reporter.

The UNAT held that Mr. Hunt failed to prove that his action of reporting possible misconduct within UNJSPF to outside sources was a protected activity under the Secretary-General’s Bulletin on protection against retaliation. The UNAT agreed with the UNDT’s...

The UNAT held that the UNDT had not failed to exercise jurisdiction nor committed an error in procedure. The UNAT found that the UNDT had not exceeded its broad discretion in overruling the objections of the staff member’s counsel when it permitted additional questions by the Secretary-General’s counsel and, in any event, the UNDT’s ruling had no material or prejudicial impact on the outcome of the case.

The UNAT found that the UNDT had not erred in finding that the picture the staff member had sent to the complainant had been of an explicit sexual and even pornographic character. The UNAT...

The UNAT found that beyond reporting the possible prohibited conduct concerning non-compliance with the United Nations financial rules and regulations to the Office of Internal Oversight Services, the staff member had no further interest in law in the conduct of the investigation or its outcome. The UNAT further agreed with the UNDT that there was no basis for his assertion that OIOS had declined to conduct an investigation into his report. The UNAT concluded that the UNDT had not erred in finding the application concerning this decision not receivable.

Regarding the staff member’s complaint...

The UNAT noted that the interview panel had nominated the staff member as one of the recommended candidates for appointment to the post but the Recruitment Report had been erroneously silent as to whether she had been considered on an equivalency basis. The UNAT observed that the advisory committee had subsequently found that her experience did not qualify her for equivalency and that she had not met the educational qualifications.

The UNAT held that because the staff member had been wrongly shortlisted, her participation in the remainder of the recruitment process had been unlawful and any...

L'UNAT a estimé que l'UNDT n'avait pas commis d'erreur en rejetant la demande d'audience orale de la fonctionnaire, car le dossier était « complet » et il n'y avait « aucun différend irréconciliable entre les parties quant aux faits ».

Le TUNAS a estimé que le placement de la fonctionnaire en congé administratif était justifié, étant donné qu'elle avait reçu les noms des membres du comité d'enquête chargé d'enquêter sur sa faute présumée et qu'elle était en mesure d'approuver le contrat de consultant de l'un de ces membres, ce qui créait un conflit d'intérêts et un risque réel d'ingérence dans...

The UNAT held that the former staff member’s challenge was to a recommendation of the Alternate Chair of the Ethics Panel, and as an ethics recommendation, it was not an administrative decision subject to judicial review. Thus, the UNDT correctly dismissed this part of the application as not receivable.

The UNAT further found that the Administration’s rejection of the March 2020 Alternate Chair’s report and recommendation could not have been understood by the Ethics Office to be a request to conduct a new review. The UNAT observed that the evidence before the UNDT was that the decision was...

The UNAT held that the Secretary-General had not implicitly withdrawn delegated authority to the Under-Secretary-General for Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance (USG/DMSPC) when the Chef de Cabinet sought advice from the USG/DMSPC.

The UNAT held that the UNDT did not err in concluding that the USG/DMSPC reasonably rejected the report of the March 2020 Alternate Chair. The UNAT affirmed that the Administration was empowered impliedly to decline to act on a report that it considered as having exceeded its authorized parameters. Moreover, the UNAT concluded that the USG/DMSPC had the...

L'UNAT a noté que l'appel de l'ABD avait été déposé dans les 60 jours suivant la délivrance de l'ordonnance, mais plus de 30 jours après cet événement. Étant donné qu'en vertu de l'article 7(1)(c) du statut de l'UNAT, une partie dispose de 30 jours pour faire appel d'une ordonnance, l'ABD avait dépassé le délai pour faire appel de l'ordonnance contestée de l'UNDT.

L'UNAT a rejeté l'appel comme irrecevable.

Le Tribunal d'appel a analysé le texte de l'annexe D, dans sa version de 1966, et a conclu que : a) les veuves ont droit à une indemnité correspondant à deux cinquièmes du traitement annuel du fonctionnaire décédé ; (b) si le fonctionnaire décédé laisse plus d'une veuve, l'indemnité est répartie à parts égales entre les veuves ; (c) toutes les prestations de retraite versées au titre des droits du fonctionnaire à la Caisse commune des pensions du personnel des Nations Unies sont déduites de l'indemnité versée au titre de l'appendice D ; cette déduction ne doit pas réduire le montant de l...

The UNAT held that the UNDT did not err in concluding that the transitional measure – granting 10 weeks of special leave with full pay (SLWFP) only to mothers who were still on maternity leave on 1 January 2023 – was not unlawfully discriminatory.

It found that, while it might be argued that preferring birth mothers over fathers in the transitional arrangements between the old and new parental leave regimes was discriminatory, it was not unlawfully discriminatory for two reasons: i) the desirability of breastfeeding in circumstances that are inconsistent with their mothers also working full...

The UNAT held that the facts were established by clear and convincing evidence. It held that the Complainant’s testimony was consistent with her earlier statements, except for the date of the incident. However, the correction of the date she made at the hearing was found to be in good faith and did not undermine her credibility. Her account was corroborated by two other staff members, M.V. and M.M., both of whom testified before the UNDT. The UNAT also held that the former staff member failed to show that these witnesses had any motive to falsely implicate him. It noted that the former...