2023-UNAT-1367, Mihai Nastase
The UNAT considered an appeal by the staff member.
The UNAT found that the staff member had merely made unsubstantiated general claims about having the requisite skills and experience for his post to be retained.
The UNAT was of the view that, as the UNDT had correctly held, the staff member had failed to discharge the evidentiary burden to rebut the presumption of regularity that arose from the minimal showing of a rational basis for the decision.
The UNAT found that the record confirmed that there was a genuine restructuring that led to the retrenchment of 29 staff members.
The record...