Addressing Staff Grievances
Generally
The Grievance Procedures and the Appeals Procedures establish a graduated and defined
three-tier appeal mechanism under which a staff member can seek redress of any
administrative decision that adversely affects him or her.
Recourse through Normal Administrative Channels represents the first level of dispute
resolution for a dissatisfied staff member. In the event that a grievance remains
unresolved following this process, the staff member and the Bank are required to consider
and, if appropriate, exhaust, mediation as a preliminary step to an Administrative Review
of the decision. This review is done by the President acting on the recommendation of
the Grievance Committee. If still dissatisfied with the outcome of the administrative
review, the staff member can appeal the administrative decision to the Administrative
Tribunal. As a general rule, the staff member is required to exhaust the procedures
applicable to each tier of review as a pre-condition to moving to the next level.
Grievance Committee
The Grievance Committee is comprised of a Chair and two Assessors. The President of
the Bank appoints the Chair of the Grievance Committee, who must be an experienced
lawyer from outside of the Bank. The two Assessors will be staff members selected by
the Chair of the Grievance Committee on a case by case basis from a pre-determined
panel of eight. The panel of eight Assessors is comprised of four staff members drawn
from the ranks of the support staff and four from the professional category. Two of the
support staff and an equal number of the professional staff are appointed by the President
of the Bank, and the remaining four are elected by the staff.
The chair of the Grievance Committee is Professor Roy Lewis (British).
Administrative Tribunal
The Administrative Tribunal is comprised of three judges drawn from a panel of five.
The judges, who are appointed by the Board of Directors on the recommendation of the
President after consultation with the Staff Council, must all be highly experienced
lawyers from outside of the Bank. The role of the Administrative Tribunal is to decide,
on the relative merits of the case, whether or not to uphold the staff member’s appeal.
The judges of the Administrative Tribunal are:
* Ms Giuditta Cordero Moss (Italian)
* Mr Boris Karabelnikov (Russian)
* Mr Jan Paulsson (Swedish), President of the Administrative
Tribunal
* Ms Elizabeth Slade (British)
* Mr Stanislaw Soltysinski (Polish).
