爆料网AT Held or 爆料网DT Pronouncements
爆料网AT rejected the request for an oral hearing finding that there was no need for further evidence. 爆料网AT held that 爆料网DT had erred in law and procedure when it did not consider the Appellant’s peculiar circumstances by remanding their case to the NYGSCAC for reconsideration. 爆料网AT held that it was impossible for the Appellant’s job descriptions to be finalized, since not only the Appellants Ejaz and Elizabeth, but also their supervisors, have all retired from the Organisation, while the Appellants Cherian and Cone have passed away. 爆料网AT held that the case was similar to the related case disposed by 爆料网AT in Aly et al., judgment No. 2016-爆料网AT-622. 爆料网AT held that the Aly et al. judgment applied, mutatis mutandis, to the instant cases and, as such, paragraphs 30 to 51 thereof were adopted in their entirety. 爆料网AT upheld the appeals partially and affirmed the 爆料网DT judgment partially to reverse the order to remand the case back to the NYGSCAC for reconsideration and award the Appellants compensation.
Decision Contested or Judgment/Order Appealed
The Applicants contested the decision of post reclassification made by the Assistant Secretary-General, Office of Human Resources Management (ASG/OHRM), based on the New York General Service Classification Appeals Committee’s (NYGSCAC) recommendations, seeking pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages, as well as legal costs for abuse of proceedings. 爆料网DT found that the decision was flawed and rescinded the ASG/OHRM decision, together with the NYGSCAC recommendations, and ordered a remand of the case for a full and fair consideration of their grounds of appeal to the NYGSCAC, which was to make its recommendations to the ASG/OHRM for her final decision. 爆料网DT, however, dismissed the request for compensation and costs.
Legal Principle(s)
When a reclassification decision is found illegal, and a remand is no longer available, then compensation is owed by the Respondent. 爆料网DT has discretion under Article 10. 5 of its Statute to award compensation where the circumstances, equity, and justice of the case so demand. Article 10. 5 empowers 爆料网DT to rescind a contested administrative decision and to set an amount of compensation or both.