A tribunal with one side

Märpel was surprised to find out on the Intranet that President Campinos met Giuseppe Barbagallo, President of the ILO Administrative Tribunal (ILOAT), and Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), in Geneva.

The purpose of the meeting is, officially, to "reduce pending appeals". While this is a laudable objective, Märpel finds it puzzling that one of the parties is welcome to talk with the tribunal and the other is not. Märpel notes that the most efficient way to reduce  pending appeal to zero is simply to make sure that staff cannot appeal. Märpel notes that a "Memorandum of understanding" was apparently signed between President Campinos and the chair and vice-chair of the appeals committee that still keeps budget, objectives and discretionary power over the temporary contracts of the appeals committee in the hands of President Campinos. Independence of the judiciary does not look like this.

In this context, the flyer team just published a new flyer about the status of Suepo disciplinary cases. Märpel understands that Patrick, Elisabeth, Aurelien, Michael and Laurent situation is not good. You may want to read the flyer yourself on their site:

http://www.epostaff4rights.org

or directly download the pdf under

http://www.epostaff4rights.org/pdf/42.pdf