[1]All colleagues are invited to the all-staff lunchtime conference on Friday 16 October, from 12:30 to 14:00, to share views on the Large-Scale Review (LSR) ahead of the upcoming follow-up discussions with Commissioner Serafin.
Hosted by Marcela Valkova, Chair of Generation 2004, this meeting will be an opportunity for colleagues across the Commission to express their concerns, perspectives and expectations regarding the recommendations linked to the LSR.
As Generation 2004 prepares for a further exchange with Commissioner Serafin, your input is essential. The more concrete feedback we receive from colleagues, the better we can reflect staff concerns, highlight practical implications and strengthen our voice in the discussions ahead.
Why attend?
This conference is an opportunity to:
- share your views on the recommendations;
- raise concerns about how the LSR may affect staff;
- highlight risks, opportunities and practical consequences;
- help ensure that staff perspectives are clearly represented in follow-up discussions.
Whether you have broad concerns or specific points to raise, your contribution matters.
Open to all colleagues
The conference is open to all colleagues across the Commission. We encourage broad participation so that the diversity of staff experience and opinion can be fully reflected.
Background reading
Consult our recent articles on the LSR:
Join the discussion
Make your views heard and help shape the message that Generation 2004 will bring to the next meeting with Commissioner Serafin.
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As the use of contract staff becomes increasingly common, there has been a corresponding increase in the diversity of status and pay of the Commission’s workforce. For example, GFIV contract staff meeting the same minimum recruitment requirements (education and experience) as junior administrators may earn 28 % less. (European Court of Auditors, 2019, Special report no 15/2019 [9]: Implementation of the 2014 staff reform package at the Commission – Big savings but not without consequences for staff, point 61, page 34)
We have a working group dedicated to the dossier, and in December 2012 we addressed the first of many letters (\'notes\') about Contract Agents to Human Resources of all Institutions and agencies [10] (here is the cover e-mail [11]).
As a background you can see the report of the Commission to the Council regarding the recruitment of the contract agents in 2010 [12] (in French, COM(2011)802 final 23.11.2011).
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