Judgment No. 4686
Decision
1. WHO shall pay the complainant a further amount of 15,000 Swiss francs moral damages. 2. WHO shall pay the complainant 2,000 Swiss francs costs. 3. All other claims are dismissed.
Summary
The complainant challenges a decision to close the harassment complaint she lodged against her former supervisor without carrying out an investigation.
Judgment keywords
Keywords
complaint allowed; harassment
Consideration 6
Extract:
In relation to the delay, WHO has accepted the time taken to consider and dispose of her complaint was excessive and her arguments that it was excessive are unnecessary, if not beside the point. However, it should be pointed out that the characterization of the delay as egregious is fortified by the actual decision made. That is, a decision based on there being no prima facie case. That decision could have been made within a few months, if not weeks, of the filing of the complaint.
Keywords
delay
Consideration 7
Extract:
[I]t may […] be accepted that the uncertainty over several years about the fate of [the complainant's] formal harassment complaint also caused her moral injury.
Keywords
moral injury; delay; harassment
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