UNDT/2020/207, Elias
The Respondent has appropriately established the rationale for canceling a JO and readvertising it in response to the Secretary-General鈥檚 Gender Strategy issued on 12 Sep September 2017, namely to attract more female candidates. The re-advertisement lawfully fell within the Organization鈥檚 discretion. The Respondent has not appropriately established that the role of the Human Resources official was to be that of an assessor within the meaning of the Hiring Manager鈥檚 Manual and that he was therefore authorised to ask probing questions to the Applicant during the interview. The only irregularity...