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The legal considerations of an organisation leaving the UN Common System or the UN Joint Staff Pension Fund This article was first published in the FICSA Magazine, Edition 2, May 2020 “We don...
The impact of COVID-19 on employment disputes
Our working environments have changed. My goal in this post is to avoid using the most popular terms of 2020, such as ‘unprecedented’ or ‘pivot’, but it goes without saying that we all have to...
Rights, powers and duties of staff associations
1. Introduction An important part of International Organisations and their functioning is the existence and operation of an association of staff. Like in the private sector, associations of staff play...
The (dis)advantageous relationship between International Organisations and their host countries: the Austrian experience
The relationship between International Organisations (IOs) and their host countries creates some interesting legal and political issues which do not always sit happily together: on the one hand, IOs h...
The UNAT and the applicability of the principle “nemo iudex in causa sua” or “no-one is judge in his own cause”
This article was first published in FICSA’s Tip of the Month, December 2020 In October 2019, the UNAT issued a series of rather revolutionary judgments, which were published in February 2020.[1...