UNDT/2021/063 | SYSTEM OF ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

UNDT/2021/063, Berthaud

UNAT Held or UNDT Pronouncements

UNDT found that at the earliest, the deadline to request management evaluation started to run on 22 August 2019 and expired on 21 October 2019. UNDT held that the Applicant’s 18 October 2019 request for management evaluation was timely and that her application was receivable. UNDT further held that the decision to pay the Applicant’s repatriation grant at the single rate was in accordance with the UNDP Policy as well as Annex IV to the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and was lawful. UNDT rejected the application in its entirety.

Decision Contested or Judgment Appealed

The Applicant contested the decision to pay her repatriation grant at single rather than dependency rate.

Legal Principle(s)

Left deliberately blank.

Outcome

Dismissed on merits

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Full Judgment

Applicants/ Appellants

Berthaud

Entity

UNDP

Case Number(s)

UNDT/GVA/2020/014

Tribunal

UNDT

Registry Location :

Geneva