Monetary claim inadmissible after probationary dismissal

ATA/120/1996Tribunal de Justiça / Câmara Administrativa5 de mar. de 1996Inadmissible

Extraído pela Omnilex

Resumo Omnilex

A public employee dismissed during the probationary period sought financial and moral compensation. The court held that such compensation was only an indirect or subsidiary consequence of a different principal claim and could not, on its own, make a monetary action admissible. The action was therefore inadmissible.

Sumário Omnilex

LTA.11; action in pecuniary matters; public employee dismissed during probationary period; damages and moral compensation claimed as a consequence of dismissal are not an autonomous principal claim when they are merely indirect or subsidiary to another relief. Admissibility of the action requires that the monetary claim itself constitute the subject-matter of the proceedings; a subsidiary compensation demand cannot found jurisdiction or admissibility. The court thus refuses entry where the claimant seeks only consequential harm flowing from the contested employment termination.

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Descripteurs

FONCTIONNAIRE ET EMPLOYE; ACTION PECUNIAIRE; EMPLOYE PUBLIC; PERIODE D'ESSAI; RESILIATION; CE

Normes

LTA.11

Résumé

Licenciement d'un employé en période probatoire. La demande de réparation du préjudice financier et moral consécutif à un licenciement ne saurait fonder la recevabilité d'une action dès lors qu'il s'agit d'une conséquence indirecte ou subsidiaire d'une réclamation principale d'une autre espèce.

Palavras-chave

public employmentprobationary perioddismissalinadmissibilitydamagesmoral harmmonetary action

Extraído pela Omnilex

Questões jurídicas principais extraídas pela Omnilex

Questão jurídica principal

Whether a claim for financial and moral damages arising from a dismissal can be brought as an independent monetary action.

Decisão extraída

No. Such damages are only indirect or subsidiary consequences of the main relief and do not by themselves make the monetary action admissible.

Fundamentação extraída

The court held that the requested compensation did not constitute the principal subject of a distinct monetary claim; it merely followed from another type of claim and therefore could not found admissibility.

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