Summary of the CSCCA judgment of 2016-07-07: Recours exercé par des employés révoqués de l’Office National d’Assurance Vieillesse (ONA) contre cet organisme et l’état haïtien
Summary: The court's published summary of its judgment of 2016-07-07 in the following case: Recours exercé par des employés révoqués de l’Office National d’Assurance Vieillesse (ONA) contre cet organisme et l’état haïtien. The court sat in its administrative jurisdiction. The summary gives the facts, the texts applied and the operative ruling. The court publishes these summaries rather than the judgments themselves, and they are most of what is publicly available of Haitian financial and administrative case law.
Key Findings
- CSCCA ruled on an appeal by a group of revoked ONA employees acting for themselves and other revoked employees.
- The employees challenged revocation decisions taken against them by ONA administrative authorities.
- The Court declared itself competent, citing article 89 of the 4 November 1983 decree organizing the Ministry of Social Affairs and article 122 of the 17 May 2005 decree organizing the central state administration.
- Those instruments led the Court to treat ONA as a technical and administrative body under administrative jurisdictions.
- The Court found the petition inadmissible under article 25 of the 4 November 1983 decree because individual formalities were mandatory, the group filing was not a legal person, and grievances linked to administrative decisions were not included in the petition.
- The Court declared the ONA employees' petition inadmissible for noncompliance with article 25.
How to cite
Superior Court of Accounts and Administrative Disputes (CSCCA), Summary of the CSCCA judgment of 2016-07-07: Recours exercé par des employés révoqués de l’Office National d’Assurance Vieillesse (ONA) contre cet organisme et l’état haïtien, https://cscca.gouv.ht/