Administrative decision
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Jurisdiction / receivability (UNDT or first instance)
Procedure (first instance and UNAT)
The UNAT held that the UNDT committed an error of fact, resulting in a manifestly unreasonable decision, when it found that a termination decision was made on 1 April 2022. In this regard, the UNAT found that while a decision to place a note in the former staff member鈥檚 Official Status File (OSF) was made on 1 April 2022, the termination decision was actually taken on 11 March 2022. Therefore, the UNDT should have identified either decision as the contested decision, but erred in following the former staff member鈥檚 assertion that a termination decision was taken on 1 April 2022.
Nevertheless...