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• End-of-year checklist 2024 (3 December 2024) Categories: building closures, Health, IT kit for telework, Leave, PMO, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Free training offer: Internal competitions AD5/AD6/AST2/ASTSC2 – Tips and tricks (28 November 2024) Categories: Events, Internal Competitions, Training
• Free conference: Contract Agents career & Review of the Temporary Staff decision (27 November 2024) Categories: Contract Agents, Events, FAQs, Temporary Agents, Working conditions
• 10 days of teleworking from outside the place of employment: use them or lose them! (21 November 2024) Categories: Leave, Teleworking, teleworking from anywhere
• Why you don’t have to wait for retirement to pursue your dreams (20 November 2024) Categories: Health, Training, well-being
• Ispra Correction Coefficient (15 November 2024) Categories: Intermediate salary update, Ispra-Seville, Newsletter - 2024-11-15, yearly salary update
• AST & AST-SC staff: ECA Report Highlights Long-Standing Career Challenges (13 November 2024) Categories: Certification, Equality, Events, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2024-11-15, social dialogue, Staff Categories, Working conditions
• ISPRA : Access to Health Care in Italy – Sick of Waiting  (13 November 2024) Categories: Complementary coverage, Health, Ispra-Seville, Newsletter - 2024-11-15
• ISPRA CANTEEN: Starving for Solutions  (13 November 2024) Categories: Ispra-Seville, Newsletter - 2024-11-15, Services
• EEAS: Improving the Promotion/reclassification System (13 November 2024) Categories: EEAS, Institutions, Newsletter - 2024-11-15, Promotions, reclassification, Working conditions
• Valencia: concrete action (7 November 2024) Categories: crisis-response action, Newsletter - 2024-11-15
• Free Training – EPSO AD7 Scientific Research (10 fields) (6 November 2024) Categories: Administrators, Education, EPSO, Events, Newsletter - 2024-11-15, Training
• JSIS special reimbursement: send us your experiences! (5 November 2024) Categories: disability and special needs, Health, Newsletter - 2024-11-15
• Annual salary update 2024 (4 November 2024) Categories: Newsletter - 2024-11-15, PMO, yearly salary update
• Training EPSO AD7 Nuclear (2 fields) – Written test (30 October 2024) Categories: Administrators, EPSO, Training
• ‘Contract agents collective’ petition: to sign or not to sign?   (29 October 2024) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2024-10-28, OSPs, Petition, Staff Categories, Surveys, Working conditions
• Duty Calls: Navigating the Challenges of Standby Duty at EEAS (25 October 2024) Categories: EEAS, Features, Institutions, Newsletter - 2024-10-28, Standby duty, Working conditions
• Geel LSC Elections 2024: Thank You for Your Trust and Support! (25 October 2024) Categories: Elections, Geel, Local elections, Local Staff Committee, Newsletter - 2024-10-28
• ASTs: exploited and forgotten or given a future?  (24 October 2024) Categories: Assistants, Certification, EPSO, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2024-11-15, Professional mobility
• Time to put an end to the career blockage of AST/SC staff (24 October 2024) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Education, EPSO, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2024-11-15, Secretaries and clerks
• From Paper to Digital: A voting practice update is necessary (24 October 2024) Categories: Brussels, Elections, Electoral reform, Geel, Ispra-Seville, Karlsruhe, Local elections, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2024-10-28, Outside the Union, Petten
• Challenges of unpaid leave for contract agents  (24 October 2024) Categories: Contract Agents, Education, Equality, Leave, Newsletter - 2024-10-28, Part-time, Staff Categories, Temporary Agents, Training, Working conditions
• Longer and sustainable careers for contracts agents  (24 October 2024) Categories: Contract Agents, Equality, Newsletter - 2024-10-28, Promotions, reclassification, Staff Categories, Temporary Agents, Working conditions
• Upcoming changes to the mission guide  (23 October 2024) Categories: Mobility and Climate, Newsletter - 2024-11-15, Working conditions
• Training Offer: EPSO competition AST3 – Free-text Essay on EU matters (17 October 2024) Categories: Education, EPSO, Events, Newsletter - 2024-10-28, Training
• ‘Voluntary’ availability during end-of-year break (15 October 2024) Categories: Newsletter - 2024-11-15, Standby duty, teleworking from anywhere, Working conditions
• Cold? leave a paper trail! (15 October 2024) Categories: additional teleworking costs, building closures, Newsletter - 2024-11-15, office temperatures, Open Plan Office, Teleworking, Working conditions
• General pension FAQs (8 October 2024) Categories: FAQs, Newsletter - 2024-10-28, Pensions
• Transfer of pension rights FAQs (2 October 2024) Categories: Events, FAQs, Newsletter - 2023-12-13, Newsletter - 2024-01-08, Newsletter - 2024-10-28, Pensions
• End of service: IT access (2 October 2024) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2024-11-15, Pensions, PMO, Services, Temporary Agents, Working conditions
• Promotion/reclassification what happens now? (1 October 2024) Categories: CA screening, Newsletter - 2024-11-15, Promotions, reclassification
• Certification 2024/25: and so it begins! (27 September 2024) Categories: Assistants, Certification, Newsletter - 2024-10-28
• JRC event: pension rights (26 September 2024) Categories: Contract Agents, Events, Karlsruhe, Newsletter - 2024-10-28, Pensions, Temporary Agents
• Brussels Childcare Colleagues: Essential role in shaping our children’s development (25 September 2024) Categories: Childcare, Commission services, Education, Health, Newsletter - 2024-09-25, OIB, Working conditions
• The shark attack! (24 September 2024) Categories: allowances, EEAS, Newsletter - 2024-09-25, place of origin
• Unemployment fund in top shape: Will non-permanent staff contributions decrease? (24 September 2024) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2024-09-25, Temporary Agents
• Reinforcing mobility for contract agents  (24 September 2024) Categories: agencies, Contract Agents, Cost of living Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2024-09-25, Professional mobility, Promotions, reclassification, Vacancy, Working conditions
• Training Offer: EPSO competition AST3 (24 September 2024) Categories: Education, EPSO, Events, Newsletter - 2024-09-25, Training
• Training offer: Internal competitions AD5/AD6/AST2/ASTSC2 (24 September 2024) Categories: Events, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2024-09-25, Training
• Do you know what your Perm Rep knows about you?  (23 September 2024) Categories: Data Protection, Newsletter - 2024-09-25
• Health screening: hoops to jump through (23 September 2024) Categories: Health, Newsletter - 2024-09-25
• Eismea’s Latest Adventure: A Mission to the US or Losing Staff Trust Forever? (23 September 2024) Categories: EISMEA, Newsletter - 2024-09-25, Vacancy
• What happened to the fair share? (18 September 2024) Categories: Newsletter - 2024-09-25, Working conditions
• It’s all about our rights! (18 September 2024) Categories: Cyber-security, Data Protection, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2024-09-25, Working conditions, workplace bullying and harassment
• Education allowances – Higher education (16 September 2024) Categories: allowances, Education, PMO, Training
• Conference: transfer-out of pension rights (12 September 2024) Categories: Events, FAQs, Newsletter - 2024-09-25, Pensions
• EPSO’s Chronic Ineptitude – Ombudsman Exposes Systemic Failures (16 July 2024) Categories: EPSO, Newsletter - 2024-07-16
• Housing allowance in Luxembourg – where are we? (15 July 2024) Categories: allowances, Cost of living Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2024-07-16
• More clarity about the changes to the annual travel allowance  (12 July 2024) Categories: allowances, Newsletter - 2024-07-16, place of origin, Working conditions
• Upholding flexibility offered by Third-party option in Mobility.net   (12 July 2024) Categories: Commission services, commuting, Environment, Luxembourg, Mobility and Climate, Newsletter - 2024-07-16, Professional mobility, Working conditions
• Ignored efforts: Unfair outcomes (11 July 2024) Categories: diversity & inclusion, Equality, Newsletter - 2024-07-16, Promotions, Working conditions
• What happened to “Have your say”? (10 July 2024) Categories: Commission services, Data Protection, Features, Newsletter - 2024-07-16, Staff forum
• Social security fairness for non-permanent staff (8 July 2024) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2024-07-16, Temporary Agents, Working conditions
• Securing pensions for Contract & Temporary Agents during unemployment (8 July 2024) Categories: allowances, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2024-07-16, Pensions, Temporary Agents
• Automatic declarations of Belgian Third-party allowances announced by PMO (8 July 2024) Categories: allowances, Education, Newsletter - 2024-07-16
• Training offer for EPSO Competitions (4 July 2024) Categories: Administrators, EPSO, Newsletter - 2024-07-16, Training
• Are interpreters being listened to? (3 July 2024) Categories: Health, Newsletter - 2024-07-16, Security at work, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Lunchtime conference with guest speakers: My Safety – Understanding and Addressing Urban Violence in Brussels (28 June 2024) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2024-06-13, Security at work
• Summer holiday 2024 checklist (Tips) (27 June 2024) Categories: building closures, Health, Leave, Newsletter - 2024-07-16, Standby duty, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Generation 2004 support for local democracy – Sign up to vote in Belgian local elections (DDL 31 July)!  (25 June 2024) Categories: Elections, Local elections, Newsletter - 2024-07-16
• Empowering contract agents: Generation 2004 calls for amendments to 7- year rule (25 June 2024) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2024-07-16, Temporary Agents, Working conditions
• Streamlining the Family Allowance Process: A Welcome Change for EU Staff in Belgium (11 June 2024) Categories: allowances, Education, Newsletter - 2024-06-13, PMO
• How to identify a fake interview: the workshop you will never find in “Career Days” (10 June 2024) Categories: Newsletter - 2024-06-13, Working conditions
• ING Lux client? Act now! (6 June 2024) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2024-06-13, PMO
• Think twice before sharing your mobile with … the Commission (5 June 2024) Categories: Central Staff Committee, Cyber-security, Data Protection, Newsletter - 2024-06-13, Working conditions
• The practices must change – Standby duty & use of private phones for business purposes in Delegations (4 June 2024) Categories: Data Protection, EEAS, EEAS Special Edition Newsletter June 2024, Newsletter - 2024-06-13, Standby duty, Working conditions
• TAXUD’s Alarming Decline in Staff Well-being: Our efforts have paid off! (4 June 2024) Categories: Health, Newsletter - 2024-06-13, Surveys, Working conditions
• Another episode in the Evere European school saga (3 June 2024) Categories: Education, European Schools, Newsletter - 2024-06-13
• Conference: the 2024 reclassification and promotion appeals season opens Thursday 13 June, Generation 2004 is here to help (3 June 2024) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2024-06-13, Promotions, reclassification
• Career Days – a genuine intention or false illusions? (31 May 2024) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2024-06-13, Training
• Intermediate salary update in June +3% (28 May 2024) Categories: EEAS Special Edition Newsletter June 2024, Intermediate salary update, Newsletter - 2024-05-29
• Webinars on Oral Tests AD8/AD10 – internal competitions – New dates (24 May 2024) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2024-05-29, Training
• Online Conference – Local Agents Salary method – Time to adapt to the reality on the ground (24 May 2024) Categories: EEAS Special Edition Newsletter June 2024, Newsletter - 2024-05-29, Training, Working conditions
• Working a second job? Watch out: you don’t need to pay social security contributions twice! (23 May 2024) Categories: Newsletter - 2024-05-29, Working conditions
• Equivalent of 35 colleagues working for free (21 May 2024) Categories: Leave, Newsletter - 2024-05-29, Working conditions
• Brussels European Schools – problems and solutions (21 May 2024) Categories: Education, European Schools, Newsletter - 2024-05-29
• Travel allowance – place of origin judgement by Court of Justice (COJ) (21 May 2024) Categories: EEAS Special Edition Newsletter June 2024, Newsletter - 2024-05-29, place of origin, Working conditions
• Another positive PMO story (2 May 2024) Categories: Newsletter - 2024-05-29, PMO
• 18% salary increase and other fever dreams (26 April 2024) Categories: Intermediate salary update, Newsletter – 2024-04-29
• Learning sessions on internal competitions – Oral test (26 April 2024) Categories: Education, Events, Internal Competitions, Newsletter – 2024-04-29, Training
• Locals Agents Salary Method – Time to adapt to the reality on the ground! (24 April 2024) Categories: EEAS Special Edition Newsletter June 2024, Local Agents, Newsletter – 2024-04-29, Outside the Union
• Lunchtime conference: the implementation of the Picard decision in the Commission (22 April 2024) Categories: CA screening, Contract Agents, Events, Newsletter – 2024-04-29, Pensions
• A positive PMO story (17 April 2024) Categories: Newsletter – 2024-04-29, PMO
• Oops … the Commission did it again! Illegal request on private phones (16 April 2024) Categories: Data Protection, Health, New HR strategy, Newsletter – 2024-04-29, staff regulations Reform, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Conference on standby duty and use of private phones for work purposes in Delegations April 2024 (16 April 2024) Categories: Data Protection, EEAS, Events, Local Agents, Outside the Union
• Lunchtime conference with inspiring guest speakers (16 April 2024) Categories: Childcare, Events
• Two years on, what’s happening with the 12 actions for Luxembourg? (12 April 2024) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Newsletter – 2024-04-29
• Internal competition – clarification COM/AD5/2023 (11 April 2024) Categories: EPSO, Internal Competitions, Newsletter – 2024-04-29
• TAXUD’s Alarming Decline in Staff Well-being: A Call for Immediate Action (10 April 2024) Categories: Health, Newsletter – 2024-04-29, Social Dialogue, Surveys, workplace bullying and harassment
• Looking for new & exciting challenges? (10 April 2024) Categories: Education, Newsletter - 2024-04-11, Training
• Advocacy bearing fruit: administration boosts reclassification quotas (10 April 2024) Categories: Agencies, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2024-04-11
• Operation Hiver – Winter is over (9 April 2024) Categories: additional teleworking costs, building closures, Newsletter - 2024-04-11, office temperatures, Open Plan Office, Teleworking, Working conditions
• European Schools – It’s not about asking for extra budget (22 March 2024) Categories: European Schools, Newsletter - 2024-04-11
• From culture of trust to control freak (21 March 2024) Categories: Data Protection, Health, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2024-04-11, Open Plan Office, Staff Regulations Reform, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Electric vehicle (EV) charging-point disparity (21 March 2024) Categories: Brussels, commuting, Environment, Geel, Ispra-Seville, Luxembourg, Mobility and Climate, Newsletter - 2024-04-11, OIB, Petten
• One step forward in our fight: internal competition for AST & AST/SC (+training offer) (15 March 2024) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Education, EPSO, Events, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2024-02-28, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents, Training
• The European Commission infringes data protection (13 March 2024) Categories: Data Protection, Newsletter - 2024-03-15, Working conditions
• High time for more flexible teleworking, also from abroad! (13 March 2024) Categories: additional teleworking costs, Cost of living Luxembourg, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2024-03-15, return to the office-new normal, Social Dialogue, Surveys, Teleworking, teleworking from anywhere, Working conditions
• Special categories of personal data (biometric: fingerprints) for building access (13 March 2024) Categories: Cyber-security, Data Protection, Health, Newsletter - 2024-03-15, Working conditions
• Immobile remboursements via Mobility.net (12 March 2024) Categories: Brussels, Commission services, commuting, Mobility and Climate, Newsletter - 2024-03-15, OIB
• Ukraine: Easter action 2024 (11 March 2024) Categories: crisis-response action, Newsletter - 2024-03-15, Outside the Union, Ukraine 2022
• Flexibility days 2024 now available to request (11 March 2024) Categories: Leave, Newsletter - 2024-03-15, Part-time, Teleworking, Working conditions
• More missing contributions for a pension transfer-in (11 March 2024) Categories: Assistants, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2024-03-15, Pensions, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents
• Are we testing competences or IT setup? (11 March 2024) Categories: Certification, EEAS, EPSO, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2024-03-15, Outside the Union
• Is it a man’s world? (8 March 2024) Categories: Newsletter - 2024-03-15, Working conditions
• International Women’s Day: where are we now? (8 March 2024) Categories: Newsletter - 2024-03-15, Standby duty, Working conditions
• Own-initiative training: You are, in fact, on your own (5 March 2024) Categories: Education, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2024-04-11, Professional mobility, Training, Working conditions
• Your health: seeking transparency and action (28 February 2024) Categories: COVID-19, disability and special needs, Health, Newsletter - 2024-02-28, PMO
• Meet up in Seville! 20-23.02.2024 (20 February 2024) Categories: Features, Ispra-Seville
• Commission Representations rotate anticlockwise? II (8 February 2024) Categories: Newsletter - 2024-02-28, Representations
• Your opinion matters – Canteens and Cafeterias – evaluation survey (8 February 2024) Categories: Brussels, Health, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2024-02-28, Surveys
• Social-media guidelines or muzzle? (25 January 2024) Categories: Newsletter - 2024-02-28, workplace bullying and harassment
• Conference: transfer-out of pension rights (21 January 2024) Categories: Events, FAQs, Newsletter - 2024-02-28, Pensions
• Certification resit options: let’s pool our information! (19 January 2024) Categories: Assistants, Certification, Newsletter - 2024-02-28
• How to increase your chances to get a promotion/reclassification in 2024? (17 January 2024) Categories: Events, Promotions, reclassification
• Training offer for External Competitions (17 January 2024) Categories: Administrators, Education, EPSO, Events, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2024-02-28, Temporary Agents, Training
• Appraisal dialogues are coming (12 January 2024) Categories: Newsletter - 2022-01-21, Promotions, reclassification
• Certification resit options: energy efficiency? (11 January 2024) Categories: Assistants, Certification
• Belgian tax certificate: childcare costs for 2023 (8 January 2024) Categories: Brussels, Childcare, Newsletter - 2024-01-08, OIB
• Please take action: European Parliament petition in support of Contract Agents (4 January 2024) Categories: Assistants, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2024-01-08, Petition, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents
• Share your positive PMO story (19 December 2023) Categories: Newsletter - 2024-01-08, PMO
• Help a European School to stay on the map! (19 December 2023) Categories: European Schools, Newsletter - 2023-12-19
• Updated medical-bill ceilings: a step in the right direction (13 December 2023) Categories: Complementary coverage, Health, Newsletter - 2023-12-13, Working conditions
• Echoes of unhappiness (13 December 2023) Categories: Assistants, Certification, Contract Agents, EPSO, Internal Competitions, Local Agents, Newsletter - 2023-12-13, Promotions, reclassification, Secretaries and clerks, Staff Categories, Temporary Agents, Training
• Work groups on private mobile: voluntary? (12 December 2023) Categories: Data Protection, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-12-13, Standby duty, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Certification: 5 days to appeal non-inclusion (9 December 2023) Categories: Assistants, Certification, Newsletter - 2023-12-13, Newsletter - 2024-01-08
• Internal competitions – Progress for some, barrier for others (30 November 2023) Categories: EPSO, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2023-12-01
• Operation Hiver – a contest for the coolest picture (30 November 2023) Categories: additional teleworking costs, building closures, Newsletter - 2023-12-01, Newsletter - 2023-12-13, Newsletter - 2024-01-08, office temperatures, Open Plan Office, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Brownie points, shattered dreams & utility-bill miracles (30 November 2023) Categories: New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-12-01, Teleworking
• Certification programme overview and details (30 November 2023) Categories: Assistants, Certification, Newsletter - 2024-01-08
• Internal competitions – but for whom? (30 November 2023) Categories: EPSO, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2023-12-01, Professional mobility
• Training offer for external competitions and certification (29 November 2023) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Certification, Education, EPSO, Events, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2023-12-13, Newsletter - 2024-01-08, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents, Training
• Training offer for certification & internal competitions (29 November 2023) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Certification, Education, EPSO, Events, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2023-12-01, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents, Training
• Is e-voting the right tool for the JRC? (28 November 2023) Categories: Brussels, Elections, Electoral reform, Geel, Ispra-Seville, Karlsruhe, Local Staff Committee, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2023-12-01, Outside the Union, Petten
• We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy and healthy start to 2024! (24 November 2023) Categories: Newsletter - 2023-12-13
• Gaza-Israel war: volunteering/donating (23 November 2023) Categories: crisis-response action, News + Press, Outside the Union
• Reimbursed amount = 0 € (21 November 2023) Categories: Complementary coverage, Health, Newsletter - 2024-01-08, PMO
• Cancer detection: no longer a priority? (20 November 2023) Categories: Health, Newsletter - 2023-12-01
• End-of-year checklist 2023 (17 November 2023) Categories: building closures, COVID-19, Health, IT kit for telework, Leave, Newsletter - 2023-12-01, Newsletter - 2023-12-13, PMO, Teleworking, Working conditions
• 2024 appraisal and promotion/reclassification exercises conference (17 November 2023) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2023-12-01, Newsletter - 2023-12-13, Newsletter - 2024-01-08, Promotions, reclassification
• Eismea: when better becomes worse (15 November 2023) Categories: additional teleworking costs, Agencies, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-12-01, Open Plan Office, Working conditions
• When “EPSOnic” hits the iceberg (14 November 2023) Categories: Data Protection, EPSO, Events, Newsletter - 2023-11-14
• Flash report on the Local Agents’ Provident Fund (14 November 2023) Categories: EEAS, Local Agents, Newsletter - 2023-11-14, Pensions, Representations, Working conditions
• Annual salary update 2023  (14 November 2023) Categories: Newsletter - 2023-11-14, PMO, Staff Categories, yearly salary update
• Language choice in EPSO competitions – beware the consequences of automatic translation (13 November 2023) Categories: EPSO, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2023-11-14, Professional mobility
• New guide for Mission: Impossible (13 November 2023) Categories: Mobility and Climate, Multiannual financial framework (MFF), New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-11-14
• Commission Representations rotate anticlockwise? I (13 November 2023) Categories: Newsletter - 2023-12-01, Representations
• Welcome to the Hotel Commission (13 November 2023) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, EPSO, Internal Competitions, Luxembourg, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-11-14
• Feeling desperate in hotdesking? Just bring a dog! (20 October 2023) Categories: Health, New HR strategy, office temperatures, Working conditions
• Generation 2004 meets staff in EU Delegations 24.10.2023 (19 October 2023) Categories: EEAS, Events, Local Agents, Outside the Union
• Event: certification – mission (nearly) impossible (10 October 2023) Categories: Assistants, Certification, Events, Newsletter - 2023-10-10
• Please use your 10 days of teleworking from outside the place of employment! (9 October 2023) Categories: Leave, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-10-10, Social Dialogue, Teleworking, teleworking from anywhere
• Breaking Barriers: AST/SC colleagues may change function group? (9 October 2023) Categories: Assistants, Brussels, EPSO, Newsletter - 2023-10-10, Professional mobility, Promotions, Secretaries and clerks, Staff Categories
• Your career matters to us – Answer the Survey & help us help you! (9 October 2023) Categories: Assistants, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2023-10-10, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents, Working conditions
• 5 more days for parents, with a catch … (9 October 2023) Categories: Childcare, Health, Newsletter - 2023-10-10, Working conditions
• One more pension pitfall, or how the Commission fails to keep up (6 October 2023) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2023-10-10, Pensions, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents
• Grange childcare follow up (6 October 2023) Categories: building closures, Childcare, Commission services, Local Staff Committee, Newsletter - 2023-10-10, OIB, Social Dialogue
• Lunchtime conference – 20-09-2023 (21 September 2023) Categories: EPSO, Events, Health, Staff Categories, Working conditions
• New webinars on MCQ and CBT (8 September 2023) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2023-09-08, Training
• End of the solidarity levy? (8 September 2023) Categories: New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-09-08, Social Dialogue, solidarity levy, Working conditions
• Walking away when things go wrong? Sudan (7 September 2023) Categories: Local Agents, Newsletter - 2023-09-08, Outside the Union
• Grange childcare: loss of trust! (7 September 2023) Categories: additional teleworking costs, Brussels, building closures, Childcare, Commission services, Local Staff Committee, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-09-08, OIB, Social Dialogue, Working conditions
• LACC canteen closed permanently, what’s next? (7 September 2023) Categories: additional teleworking costs, building closures, Cost of living Luxembourg, IT kit for telework, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-09-08, Open Plan Office, Working conditions
• Interim staff at the Commission: FAQs (7 September 2023) Categories: FAQs, Newsletter - 2023-09-08, place of origin, Staff Categories, Training, Working conditions
• Making informed decisions: Luxembourg (29 August 2023) Categories: Assistants, Contract Agents, Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2023-09-08, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents
• Follow-up survey on teleworking, hybrid working and TWA (20 July 2023) Categories: additional teleworking costs, Cost of living Luxembourg, Events, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-07-20, return to the office-new normal, Social Dialogue, Surveys, Teleworking, teleworking from anywhere, Working conditions
• Harassment package: next steps (20 July 2023) Categories: Newsletter - 2023-07-20, workplace bullying and harassment
• Time for the Commission to address the cost of living (20 July 2023) Categories: additional teleworking costs, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-07-20, Working conditions
• EPSO update – the show must go on! (20 July 2023) Categories: Central Staff Committee, Data Protection, EPSO, Newsletter - 2023-07-20
• The institutions implement the Picard judgement – sort of … FAQ (20 July 2023) Categories: CA screening, Contract Agents, Events, FAQs, Newsletter - 2023-07-20, Pensions
• Evaluation of hybrid working, room for improvement (20 July 2023) Categories: New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-07-20
• Teleworking from abroad: why not more? (20 July 2023) Categories: New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-07-20, Teleworking, teleworking from anywhere
• Summer holiday checklist (Tips) (7 July 2023) Categories: building closures, Health, Leave, Newsletter - 2023-07-20, Standby duty, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Another intermediate salary update – but beware the end of the year (30 June 2023) Categories: Newsletter - 2023-06-30, Working conditions
• Be aware of lost money for a pension transfer-in (30 June 2023) Categories: Assistants, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2023-06-30, Pensions, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents
• The competitions are in dire straits (30 June 2023) Categories: EPSO, Institutions, Newsletter - 2023-06-30
• European Parliament requests changes in European Schools governance (28 June 2023) Categories: European Schools, Newsletter - 2023-06-30
• Generation 2004 supports staff in agencies (28 June 2023) Categories: Agencies, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2023-06-30
• Minimum wage in Luxembourg for contract agents – Parliament shows the way (28 June 2023) Categories: Contract Agents, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2023-06-30
• Reclassification: 5 working days to appeal! (27 June 2023) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2023-06-30, reclassification
• End of service: informed decisions please! (26 June 2023) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2023-06-30, Temporary Agents, Working conditions
• Generation 2004 conference on 15/06/2023: How to draft an appeal (13 June 2023) Categories: Events, Promotions, reclassification
• Webinars on Oral Tests and Computer-Based Tests (12 June 2023) Categories: Events, Training
• Generation 2004 is hiring a secretary in the European Commission in Brussels (5 June 2023) Categories: Vacancy
• No EU allowances unless you first try elsewhere (10 May 2023) Categories: Newsletter - 2023-05-10, PMO, Services, Working conditions
• Have you been IDOC(ed)? (8 May 2023) Categories: Newsletter - 2023-05-10, workplace bullying and harassment
• Out-of-hours building access (fingerprints and lone working) (3 May 2023) Categories: Health, Newsletter - 2023-05-10, Working conditions
• Webinar on EEAS internal competitions (27 April 2023) Categories: EEAS, Events, Internal Competitions, Training
• Thanks to all who voted! Historic success in EEAS and promising result in Petten (20 April 2023) Categories: Elections, Newsletter - 2023-04-20
• Meeting the Head of Cabinet: it’s all about the money (19 April 2023) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, EPSO, Luxembourg, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-04-20, Social Dialogue, Teleworking, Working conditions
• EPSO competition cancelled – is this really the least-bad option? (19 April 2023) Categories: Central Staff Committee, EPSO, Newsletter - 2023-04-20
• Evaluations of working time and hybrid working so far (18 April 2023) Categories: New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-04-20, OIB, Surveys, Teleworking
• Lunchtime conference: the Picard case (5 April 2023) Categories: CA screening, Contract Agents, Events, Newsletter - 2023-04-20, Pensions
• Signature authentication and certified true copies: yes and no (5 April 2023) Categories: Brussels, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2023-05-10, Services
• Certification 2022/23: the road ahead (4 April 2023) Categories: Assistants, Certification, Newsletter - 2023-03-30
• What is the Common Front/Front Commun? (3 April 2023) Categories: FAQs
• Ongoing difficulties for Local agents in Delegation Türkiye (31 March 2023) Categories: EEAS, Local Agents, Newsletter - 2023-04-20, Outside the Union
• Council request to further reduce spending on staff II (30 March 2023) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-03-30, Pensions, Social Dialogue, solidarity levy, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Seconded at your own request? Be aware of changes to your pension contribution (30 March 2023) Categories: Newsletter - 2023-03-30, Pensions
• The new anti-harassment package: status (30 March 2023) Categories: Newsletter - 2023-03-30, workplace bullying and harassment
• Minimum wage in Luxembourg for contract agents – finally a glimmer of hope (28 March 2023) Categories: Contract Agents, Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2023-03-30
• Municipal elections in Luxembourg – get registered if you want to vote (28 March 2023) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2023-03-30
• 100% hot-desking at the new POST-Mercier building (22 March 2023) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Health, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2023-03-30, Open Plan Office, return to the office-new normal, Social Dialogue, Working conditions
• Generation 2004 promotions/reclassification conference: How to draft an appeal 2023 (20 March 2023) Categories: Events, Promotions, reclassification
• Flexibility days 2023 now available to request (20 March 2023) Categories: Leave, Newsletter - 2023-03-30, Newsletter - 2023-04-20, Part-time, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Lifetime limit on medical part-time? Yes, sometimes (14 March 2023) Categories: disability and special needs, Health, Newsletter - 2023-04-20, Working conditions
• One year on, what’s happening with the 12 actions for Luxembourg? (13 March 2023) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2023-03-30
• International Women’s Day: more than just words? (7 March 2023) Categories: Newsletter - 2022-03-16, Newsletter - 2023-03-15 EEAS, Working conditions
• MCQ and written tests: training (1 March 2023) Categories: EPSO, Internal Competitions, Professional mobility
• Contract Agents in Delegations conference Tuesday 28 February (24 February 2023) Categories: Contract Agents, Events, Outside the Union
• EPSO changes and *now obsolete offer of* urgent legal assistance (22 February 2023) Categories: Central Staff Committee, EPSO, Junior Professionals Programme, Newsletter - 2023-02-22, Newsletter - 2023-03-15 EEAS
• Social Dialogue, or the big hypocrisy: do as I say, not as I do! (21 February 2023) Categories: COVID-19, EPSO, Newsletter - 2023-02-22, Social Dialogue
• Guilty until proven innocent… and punished forever no matter the outcome! (20 February 2023) Categories: Features, Newsletter - 2023-02-22, Professional mobility, Promotions, reclassification
• The ongoing EPSO transformation (20 February 2023) Categories: Central Staff Committee, EPSO, Junior Professionals Programme, Newsletter - 2023-02-22
• It happened to us! The EPSO rollercoaster (20 February 2023) Categories: Data Protection, EPSO, Features, Newsletter - 2023-02-22
• It happened to me! A ‘sometimes’ serious illness (19 February 2023) Categories: Complementary coverage, Features, Health, Newsletter - 2023-02-22, PMO, Working conditions
• 2022 internal competitions, where are we? (13 February 2023) Categories: Contract Agents, EEAS, EPSO, Events, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2023-02-22, Professional mobility, Temporary Agents
• The annual medical check-up: the ‘new normal’ (26 January 2023) Categories: additional teleworking costs, Brussels, Complementary coverage, Cost of living Luxembourg, COVID-19, Health, Ispra-Seville, Luxembourg, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2023-01-27, Outside the Union, PMO, return to the office-new normal
• How to increase your chances to get a promotion/reclassification in 2023? (19 January 2023) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2023-01-27, Promotions, reclassification
• Generation 2004 is hiring! (6 January 2023) Categories: Assistants, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2023-01-09, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents, Vacancy
• Certification: 5 days to appeal non-inclusion (5 January 2023) Categories: Assistants, Certification, Newsletter - 2023-01-09
• More than 12 days of annual leave remaining from 2022? (3 January 2023) Categories: disability and special needs, Health, Leave, Newsletter - 2023-01-09, Newsletter - 2023-01-27
• Colleagues in Kyiv to return to the office II (22 December 2022) Categories: Local Agents, Newsletter - 2022-10-14, Newsletter - 2023-03-15 EEAS, Outside the Union, Ukraine 2022
• Internal competitions – excluded again? (19 December 2022) Categories: EEAS, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2022-12-19
• 10 years: look how far we’ve come! (19 December 2022) Categories: Newsletter - 2022-12-19, Newsletter - 2023-03-15 EEAS
• DG GROW: Reorganisation? Maladministration? Or how to pave the way for…what? (18 December 2022) Categories: Internal Competitions, Junior Professionals Programme, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-12-19, Social Dialogue
• We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year! (17 December 2022) Categories: Newsletter - 2022-12-19
• Laissez-passer renewal unnecessarily complicated and expensive? (16 December 2022) Categories: EEAS, Local Agents, Newsletter - 2022-12-19, Newsletter - 2023-03-15 EEAS, Outside the Union
• Help! My languages are in the wrong order! (16 December 2022) Categories: EPSO, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2022-12-19, Professional mobility
• A new publication: workplace bullying and harassment (12 December 2022) Categories: Newsletter - 2022-12-19, workplace bullying and harassment
• Thank you Luxembourg! (7 December 2022) Categories: Elections, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2022-12-19
• End of year checklist: December 2022 (6 December 2022) Categories: building closures, COVID-19, Health, IT kit for telework, Leave, Newsletter - 2022-12-19, PMO, Teleworking, Working conditions
• 2023 appraisal and promotion/reclassification exercises conference (5 December 2022) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2022-12-19, Newsletter - 2023-01-09, Promotions, reclassification, workplace bullying and harassment
• High time for the Commission to show flexibility! (27 November 2022) Categories: additional teleworking costs, Cost of living Luxembourg, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-11-29, return to the office-new normal, Social Dialogue, Surveys, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Internal competitions: AST/SC2, AST2, AD6, 7, 9, 12 (25 November 2022) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Events, Newsletter - 2022-11-29, Secretaries and clerks, Staff Categories, Temporary Agents, Training
• Staff Committee Elections in Luxembourg – please vote! (24 November 2022) Categories: Elections, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2022-11-29
• Phone lines: the option exists! (22 November 2022) Categories: Health, Newsletter - 2022-11-29, Working conditions
• Follow-up special DGT meeting (22 November 2022) Categories: Events, Institutions, Newsletter - 2022-11-29, Standby duty, Working conditions
• Incorrect Sysper sick leave warning message: you asked, we acted! (17 November 2022) Categories: disability and special needs, Health, Newsletter - 2022-11-29, Working conditions
• Use it or lose it at the Commission (17 November 2022) Categories: additional teleworking costs, Cost of living Luxembourg, IT kit for telework, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-11-29, Open Plan Office, Working conditions
• An update on workplace bullying and harassment (17 November 2022) Categories: disability and special needs, Events, Newsletter - 2022-11-29, workplace bullying and harassment
• Nine months on, what’s happening with the 12 actions for Luxembourg? (11 November 2022) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2022-11-29
• Promotion/reclassification exercises 2022 (9 November 2022) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Contract Agents, Local Agents, Newsletter - 2022-11-29, Promotions, reclassification
• Follow-up survey on teleworking utility bills (8 November 2022) Categories: additional teleworking costs, Cost of living Luxembourg, Events, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-11-29, Newsletter - 2023-01-09, return to the office-new normal, Social Dialogue, Surveys, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Building closures in winter – ding, ding, ding, we have a winner (6 November 2022) Categories: building closures, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2022-11-07, Teleworking, Working conditions
• EEAS: discriminatory treatment of AST/SC staff (4 November 2022) Categories: EEAS, Newsletter - 2022-11-07, Outside the Union, Petition, Secretaries and clerks
• Workshop-webinar: EPSO/AD/401/22 AD6 energy, climate and environment (4 November 2022) Categories: EPSO, Events, Newsletter - 2022-11-07, Staff Categories
• Interim staff access to training: you asked, we acted! (4 November 2022) Categories: Newsletter - 2022-11-07, Staff Categories, Training, Working conditions
• Don’t forget to use your 10 days of teleworking from outside the place of employment! (4 November 2022) Categories: Leave, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-11-07, Social Dialogue, Teleworking, teleworking from anywhere
• Annual Salary Adjustment 2022 +4.5% (4 November 2022) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Local Agents, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2022-11-07, Social Dialogue, Working conditions
• First impressions last: Generation 2004 steps in (26 October 2022) Categories: Certification, Data Protection, disability and special needs, Health, Newsletter - 2022-11-07, Working conditions
• When is an upgrade not an upgrade? An update on the Picard case (24 October 2022) Categories: CA screening, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2022-10-25, Newsletter - 2022-11-07, Pensions, Petition
• Reimbursement of teleworking expenses: the Court says ‘no’ (23 October 2022) Categories: additional teleworking costs, Cost of living Luxembourg, IT kit for telework, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-10-25, Newsletter - 2022-11-07, Open Plan Office, Working conditions
• Luxembourg: shiny happy people? (14 October 2022) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2022-10-14
• Let’s talk about resilience at work (14 October 2022) Categories: Events, Health, Newsletter - 2022-10-14, Training
• Commission to respect expected salary adjustment for some, but not for all (14 October 2022) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Local Agents, Luxembourg, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-10-14, Social Dialogue, solidarity levy, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Winter is coming – and with it come new guidelines on workwear for the office (13 October 2022) Categories: New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-10-14, office temperatures, return to the office-new normal, Teleworking, Working conditions
• All at home! Will the Commission (again) close buildings? (11 October 2022) Categories: additional teleworking costs, building closures, Cost of living Luxembourg, IT kit for telework, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-10-14, Open Plan Office, Working conditions
• No work-life balance for colleagues in Delegations? (11 October 2022) Categories: EEAS, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-10-14, Newsletter - 2023-03-15 EEAS, Outside the Union, Staff Categories, Teleworking, Working conditions
• The future of our survey on the rise in teleworking energy bills (11 October 2022) Categories: additional teleworking costs, Cost of living Luxembourg, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-10-14, return to the office-new normal, Social Dialogue, Surveys, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Colleagues in Kyiv to return to the office (29 September 2022) Categories: Local Agents, Newsletter - 2022-10-14, Outside the Union, Ukraine 2022
• Inflation and rising energy cost impact in delegations (28 September 2022) Categories: Local Agents, Newsletter - 2022-10-14, Working conditions
• Six months on, what´s happening with the 12 actions for Luxembourg? (26 September 2022) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2022-09-27
• AST event: all you ever wanted to know! (22 September 2022) Categories: Assistants, Certification, Events, Newsletter - 2022-09-27, Staff Categories
• The Contract Agent petition is still open: you can still register and sign! (20 September 2022) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2022-09-27, Petition, Secretaries and clerks
• Certification: what’s being tested? (15 September 2022) Categories: Assistants, Certification, Newsletter - 2022-09-27
• Contract Agents: what does the future hold? (14 September 2022) Categories: Contract Agents, EPSO, Events, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2022-09-15, Newsletter - 2022-09-27, Newsletter - 2022-11-29, reclassification, Staff Categories
• Generation 2004 is hiring a Brussels-based IT specialist (13 September 2022) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Brussels, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2022-09-15, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents, Vacancy
• It happened to me! Schrödinger’s reimbursement (9 September 2022) Categories: Complementary coverage, Features, Health, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2022-09-15, PMO, Working conditions
• Housing prices in Luxembourg – the state takes action for renters (9 September 2022) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2022-09-15, Staff Regulations Reform
• Housing prices in Luxembourg – the Commission is fully committed to doing nothing (6 September 2022) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2022-09-15, Staff Regulations Reform
• We live and work in a burnout culture (long read) (6 September 2022) Categories: Health, Newsletter - 2022-09-15, Surveys, Working conditions
• Outcome of the latest vote on electoral reform in Luxembourg (2 September 2022) Categories: Elections, Electoral reform, Local Staff Committee, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2022-09-15
• Yet another Luxembourg general assembly? What is going on? (2 September 2022) Categories: Elections, Electoral reform, Local Staff Committee, Luxembourg
• Is working from home really voluntary? (31 August 2022) Categories: additional teleworking costs, building closures, Cost of living Luxembourg, IT kit for telework, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-09-15, Open Plan Office, Working conditions
• Brussels annual medical check-up: never going back to normal? (23 August 2022) Categories: COVID-19, Health, Newsletter - 2022-09-15, PMO
• Update on our AST/SC petition to the European Parliament (22 August 2022) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2022-09-27, Petition, Secretaries and clerks
• New working time and hybrid working committee (10 August 2022) Categories: New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-09-15, return to the office-new normal, Surveys, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Invited to a medical ‘control’ during sick leave? Here’s what you need to know (FAQ) (8 August 2022) Categories: FAQs, Health, Leave, Newsletter - 2022-09-27, Working conditions
• Council request to further reduce spending on staff (19 July 2022) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-09-15, Pensions, Social Dialogue, solidarity levy, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Staff in Executive Agencies need your support! Will you dare to care? (1 July 2022) Categories: Agencies, CHAFEA, EISMEA, HADEA, Newsletter - 2022-07-08, Petition
• Time for the Commission to focus on inclusion: cancer survivors (1 July 2022) Categories: disability and special needs, Health, Leave, Newsletter - 2022-07-08, Staff Regulations Reform, Working conditions, workplace bullying and harassment
• Preserving acquired rights of Local agents – empty promises? (1 July 2022) Categories: Local Agents, Newsletter - 2022-07-08, Working conditions
• A constructive debate on the Future of the Brussels’ European Schools (1 July 2022) Categories: European Schools, Newsletter - 2022-07-08
• Hybrid working guidelines for DGs and Delegations, what should we expect?  (1 July 2022) Categories: EEAS, Local Agents, Newsletter - 2022-07-08, Outside the Union, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Summer holiday checklist (Tips) (29 June 2022) Categories: Health, Leave, Newsletter - 2022-07-08, Working conditions
• It happened to me! (28 June 2022) Categories: Features, Newsletter - 2022-07-08, Working conditions
• Generation 2004 conference: How to draft an appeal (15 June 2022) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2022-06-07, Newsletter - 2022-06-16, Promotions, reclassification
• Prioritize internal Local Agents recruitment in EU Delegations (15 June 2022) Categories: Local Agents, Newsletter - 2022-06-16, Outside the Union, Vacancy
• Is this the solution to the European Schools overcrowding problem? (15 June 2022) Categories: European Schools, Newsletter - 2022-06-16
• European Schools’ locally hired teachers: true tightrope walkers (15 June 2022) Categories: European Schools, Newsletter - 2022-06-16
• Contract Agents are frustrated! Here is why! (15 June 2022) Categories: Contract Agents, EPSO, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2022-06-16
• IT security in the Commission (15 June 2022) Categories: Cyber-security, Newsletter - 2022-06-16, Training
• A new electoral system in Luxembourg – so close yet so far (15 June 2022) Categories: Elections, Electoral reform, Local Staff Committee, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2022-06-16
• An unprecedented general intermediate salary update (7 June 2022) Categories: Intermediate salary update, Newsletter - 2022-06-07, Working conditions, yearly salary update
• New rules on Working Time and Hybrid Working. Tell us what you think. (7 June 2022) Categories: New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-06-07, Newsletter - 2022-07-08, return to the office-new normal, Surveys, Teleworking, Working conditions
• The much expected new normal arrived, and it’s unfair for many!!! (7 June 2022) Categories: additional teleworking costs, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-06-07, Working conditions
• Generation 2004 continues supporting Ukrainian refugees (7 June 2022) Categories: crisis-response action, Newsletter - 2022-06-07, Ukraine 2022
• Unreliable European school calendar (4 June 2022) Categories: European Schools, Newsletter - 2022-06-07
• Internal competitions – fast careers… for some (3 June 2022) Categories: Assistants, Contract Agents, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2022-06-07
• General assembly in Luxembourg to change the electoral rules – please vote! (10 May 2022) Categories: Elections, Electoral reform, Local Staff Committee, Luxembourg
• New decision on working time and hybrid working: summary of changes (13 April 2022) Categories: Newsletter - 2022-04-13, return to the office-new normal, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Update on our collective action on internal competitions (31 March 2022) Categories: Events, Internal Competitions, Junior Professionals Programme, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-04-13, Professional mobility, Staff Categories
• Generation 2004 requests up to 12 days for volunteering (31 March 2022) Categories: crisis-response action, Newsletter - 2022-04-13, Outside the Union, Ukraine 2022
• Deadline 31.03.2022: LA employment-conditions reform (31 March 2022) Categories: EEAS, Local Agents, Outside the Union
• Home leave Decision 2022: an improvement for some staff (30 March 2022) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2022-04-13, Outside the Union, place of origin, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents
• Stated objectives: ‘pilot’ Junior Professionals Programme (JPP) (long read) (28 March 2022) Categories: EPSO, Internal Competitions, Junior Professionals Programme, Newsletter - 2022-04-13
• It’s been two years of mandatory teleworking (16 March 2022) Categories: additional teleworking costs, Health, Newsletter - 2022-03-16, return to the office-new normal, Standby duty, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Special leave for volunteering: it’s one day PER YEAR! (10 March 2022) Categories: crisis-response action, Leave, Newsletter - 2022-03-16, Outside the Union, Ukraine 2022
• Generation 2004 requests assistance be provided to Kyiv Delegation colleagues (9 March 2022) Categories: Local Agents, Newsletter - 2022-03-16, Outside the Union, Ukraine 2022
• Luxembourg: transport infrastructure will be lovely … once it’s finished! (9 March 2022) Categories: commuting, Health, Luxembourg, Mobility and Climate, Newsletter - 2022-03-16, return to the office-new normal
• Rule of law – We demand the EEAS talk the talk and walk the walk (9 March 2022) Categories: Local Agents, Newsletter - 2022-03-16, Outside the Union
• Launch of the evaluation process for EEAS local agents (9 March 2022) Categories: Local Agents, Newsletter - 2022-03-16, Outside the Union, Promotions, workplace bullying and harassment
• Ukraine: concrete action (7 March 2022) Categories: crisis-response action, Outside the Union, Petition, Ukraine 2022
• Please support colleagues in Kyiv, Ukraine (24 February 2022) Categories: crisis-response action, EEAS, Local Agents, Outside the Union, Petition, Ukraine 2022
• Core time in Luxembourg: mixed messages (22 February 2022) Categories: Luxembourg, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-02-22, return to the office-new normal, Social Dialogue, Working conditions
• Generation 2004 is hiring a 100%-of-full-time Secretary at the European Commission in Brussels (21 February 2022) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2022-02-22, Vacancy
• ‘Unsatisfactory’ in the CDR? What now? (17 February 2022) Categories: disability and special needs, Newsletter - 2022-02-22, Promotions, reclassification, workplace bullying and harassment
• Project 55+ transition towards retirement 2022 (16 February 2022) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2022-02-22, Part-time, Pensions, Training
• Please take action: sign (again) our petition in support of Contract Agents! (14 February 2022) Categories: Assistants, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2022-02-22, Petition, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents
• Generation 2004 is growing in Delegations! Be a part of the process, join us! (14 February 2022) Categories: Elections, Newsletter - 2022-02-22, Outside the Union
• Brussels Local Staff Committee Election: thank you all! (14 February 2022) Categories: Brussels, Elections, Newsletter - 2022-02-22
• New decision on working time and hybrid working: only Generation 2004 said no! (10 February 2022) Categories: additional teleworking costs, Newsletter - 2022-02-10, Teleworking, Working conditions
• New HR Strategy: join the discussion to shape the Commission of tomorrow! (10 February 2022) Categories: Events, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2022-02-10
• Teleworking abroad in 2022? Here is the easy solution! (9 February 2022) Categories: Leave, Newsletter - 2022-02-10, Teleworking
• Flexibility days 2022 now available to request (9 February 2022) Categories: Leave, Newsletter - 2022-02-10, Part-time, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Let’s walk together! (4 February 2022) Categories: Brussels, COVID-19, Health, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2022-02-10
• It’s really simple after all: introduction to the staff representation for colleagues in Delegations (4 February 2022) Categories: EEAS, Elections, Electoral reform, Local Staff Committee, Outside the Union
• The AST/SC Forum – please join us! (28 January 2022) Categories: Newsletter - 2022-01-28, Secretaries and clerks
• Update: internal competition COM/AD/02/21 (AD5) – Art. 90(2) complaint (27 January 2022) Categories: Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2022-01-28, Petition, Professional mobility, Staff Categories, Temporary Agents
• Would you like to undertake other activities outside your current job in the Commission? (26 January 2022) Categories: Contract Agents, Cost of living Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2022-01-28, Services, Temporary Agents, Working conditions
• Update 25.01.2022: internal competition COM/AD/02/21 (AD5) – what’s next? (21 January 2022) Categories: Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2022-01-13, Petition, Professional mobility, Staff Categories, Temporary Agents
• It’s only for 2 days a week! hot-desking and buildings (20 January 2022) Categories: COVID-19, Events, Health, Newsletter - 2022-01-21, Open Plan Office, return to the office-new normal, Social Dialogue
• The hidden costs of teleworking – and now energy prices! (20 January 2022) Categories: additional teleworking costs, Events, Newsletter - 2022-01-21
• Generation 2004 is hiring a 50%-of-full-time Secretary at the European Commission in Brussels (17 January 2022) Categories: Contract Agents, Vacancy
• How to increase your chances to get a promotion/reclassification in 2022? (12 January 2022) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2022-01-13, Promotions, reclassification
• More than 12 days of annual leave remaining from 2021? (11 January 2022) Categories: COVID-19, disability and special needs, Health, Leave, Newsletter - 2022-01-13
• Zero net salary increase after advance in step! (4 January 2022) Categories: Newsletter - 2022-01-13, Petition, Promotions, reclassification, Secretaries and clerks, Staff Categories, Working conditions, yearly salary update
• 2022 appraisal and promotion/reclassification exercises conference (1 January 2022) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2021-12-16, Promotions, reclassification, workplace bullying and harassment
• Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year! (16 December 2021) Categories: Newsletter - 2021-12-16
• Things to check before holidays start (Tips) (16 December 2021) Categories: COVID-19, Health, IT kit for telework, Leave, Newsletter - 2021-12-16, PMO, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Housing costs in Luxembourg: recognition? (15 December 2021) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2021-12-16, Staff Regulations Reform
• Brave new world at the Commission: the day the staff representation was abolished (15 December 2021) Categories: Elections, Newsletter - 2021-12-16, Social Dialogue
• Home office kit – assembling the chair (13 December 2021) Categories: IT kit for telework, Newsletter - 2021-12-16, Teleworking
• Internal competitions – Time for collective action! (12 December 2021) Categories: Assistants, Central Staff Committee, Contract Agents, Internal Competitions, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2021-12-16, Petition, Professional mobility, Promotions, reclassification, Secretaries and clerks, Staff Categories, Temporary Agents
• EPSO CBT/internal competition training: January (2 December 2021) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2021-12-02, Newsletter - 2021-12-16, Training
• New competition – same old story! (26 November 2021) Categories: EPSO, Events, Internal Competitions, Newsletter - 2021-12-02, Outside the Union, Staff Categories
• No more compulsory weekly presence in the office (25 November 2021) Categories: COVID-19, Health, Newsletter - 2021-12-02, Petition, Working conditions
• Promising and selling unicorns (24 November 2021) Categories: Brussels, Elections, Geel, Ispra-Seville, Karlsruhe, Local Staff Committee, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2021-12-02, OSPs, Outside the Union, Petition, Petten, Promotions, reclassification, Social Dialogue, Staff Categories, Working conditions
• Update on our September petition to stop the obligatory return to the office (22 November 2021) Categories: Brussels, COVID-19, Newsletter - 2021-12-02, return to the office-new normal
• Assistants (ASTs) FAQs (18 November 2021) Categories: Assistants, FAQs, Junior Professionals Programme, Newsletter - 2021-12-02, Secretaries and clerks, Staff Regulations Reform, workplace bullying and harassment
• Position paper on canteens, cafeterias and water (17 November 2021) Categories: Health, Newsletter - 2021-11-17, Working conditions
• ‘Balance’ or walking a tightrope? Greening the Commission (17 November 2021) Categories: commuting, Environment, Mobility and Climate, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2021-11-17, return to the office-new normal, Social Dialogue, Teleworking
• Annual Salary Adjustment 2021 +1.9% (16 November 2021) Categories: Newsletter - 2021-11-17, yearly salary update
• Let’s undo the damage: vote! (16 November 2021) Categories: Elections, Newsletter - 2021-12-02, Pensions
• Wake-up call for the administration – Voter apathy and low voter turnout (16 November 2021) Categories: Brussels, Elections, Geel, Ispra-Seville, Karlsruhe, Local Staff Committee, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2021-12-02, Outside the Union, Petten
• SAVE THE DATE for meetings this week and next (16 November 2021) Categories: Elections, Events, Newsletter - 2021-11-17
• Kraamzorg (postnatal maternity care) and the JSIS (15 November 2021) Categories: Health, Petten, PMO
• Generation 2004 submitted AST/SC petition to the European Parliament (11 November 2021) Categories: Contract Agents, Petition, Secretaries and clerks
• Stop having AST/SC staff do AST roles without the corresponding pay and potential! (11 November 2021) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Contract Agents, Junior Professionals Programme, Local Agents, Newsletter - 2021-11-17, Petition, Secretaries and clerks, Staff Categories
• Promotion/reclassification exercises 2021 (8 November 2021) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Contract Agents, Local Agents, Newsletter - 2021-11-17, Promotions, reclassification
• Project 55+ transition towards retirement (8 November 2021) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2021-11-17, Part-time, Pensions, Training
• Meeting on Buildings, restaurants, cafeterias & return to the office (1 November 2021) Categories: Elections, Events
• The ‘new normal’: is this it? FAQs 28.10.2021 (28 October 2021) Categories: additional teleworking costs, FAQs, Newsletter - 2021-11-17, Open Plan Office, return to the office-new normal, Teleworking, Working conditions
• How should Teleworking evolve in Delegations after Covid? (27 October 2021) Categories: EEAS, Elections, Outside the Union, return to the office-new normal, Teleworking
• Do you think harassment or bad managerial behaviour improved in 2020? (26 October 2021) Categories: Local Agents, Newsletter - 2021-11-17, Outside the Union, workplace bullying and harassment
• 100% reimbursement of the laboratory tests of the annual medical visit (26 October 2021) Categories: COVID-19, Health
• Correction of function group for Local Agents in Delegations – We need an action plan! (12 October 2021) Categories: Elections, Local Agents, Working conditions
• The old guard and the Commission promotion exercise (12 October 2021) Categories: Central Staff Committee, Newsletter - 2021-10-12, Promotions
• 2024 where are we now? (11 October 2021) Categories: Brussels, Elections, Electoral reform, Geel, Ispra-Seville, Karlsruhe, Local Staff Committee, Luxembourg, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2021-10-12, Outside the Union, Petten
• The ONE: is this the future of the European civil service? (11 October 2021) Categories: Brussels, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2021-10-12, Open Plan Office
• The ‘new normal’: is this it? FAQs 11.10.2021 (11 October 2021) Categories: additional teleworking costs, FAQs, Newsletter - 2021-10-12, Open Plan Office, return to the office-new normal, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Thanks to your support, fairer and more transparent election rules adopted! (8 October 2021) Categories: Brussels, Elections, Electoral reform, Local Staff Committee, Newsletter - 2021-10-08, Newsletter - 2021-10-12
• An appeal from a Karlsruhe-based coffee addict (7 October 2021) Categories: COVID-19, Karlsruhe, Newsletter - 2021-10-08
• Generation 2004 member wins a case on access to their medical file! (7 October 2021) Categories: Data Protection, disability and special needs, Health, Newsletter - 2021-10-08, Newsletter - 2021-10-12, PMO, workplace bullying and harassment
• Internal competitions: EU institutions doing it differently (7 October 2021) Categories: Assistants, Institutions, Internal Competitions, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2021-10-08, Newsletter - 2021-10-12, Professional mobility, Secretaries and clerks
• Stop the phasing out of the AST function group! (7 October 2021) Categories: Assistants, Newsletter - 2021-10-08, Newsletter - 2021-10-12, Secretaries and clerks, Staff Categories, Staff Regulations Reform
• EPSO CBT training offer: October 2021 (21 September 2021) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2021-09-08, Training
• Sign our petition to stop the obligatory return to the office (and FAQs) (21 September 2021) Categories: COVID-19, FAQs, Newsletter - 2021-09-20, return to the office-new normal
• Hybrid teleworking in delegation – how is it implemented? (21 September 2021) Categories: COVID-19, Health, Outside the Union, return to the office-new normal, Teleworking
• New HR Strategy: read our proposal and contribute to the future of working at the Commission! (17 September 2021) Categories: New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2021-09-20, Social Dialogue
• Teleworking from Anywhere: facts vs. fiction (17 September 2021) Categories: Elections, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2021-09-20, Social Dialogue, Teleworking, teleworking from anywhere
• Digital overload, burnout and back to the office (8 September 2021) Categories: additional teleworking costs, COVID-19, Health, Newsletter - 2021-09-08, return to the office-new normal, Surveys, Working conditions
• Brussels: meeting for all, Friday 10 September (8 September 2021) Categories: Brussels, Newsletter - 2021-09-08, Training
• Thanks for your support for colleagues in Afghanistan! (8 September 2021) Categories: EEAS, Local Agents, Newsletter - 2021-09-08, Petition
• Electoral reform proposals: transparency in the ballot lists (7 September 2021) Categories: Brussels, Electoral reform, Local Staff Committee, Newsletter - 2021-09-08
• Empty promises? Medical staff already forgotten? (7 September 2021) Categories: Assistants, COVID-19, Newsletter - 2021-09-08, Promotions, Working conditions
• Coaching support in delegation 16.09.2021 (7 September 2021) Categories: Events, Professional mobility, Services, Training
• Unfair distribution of promotion quotas (2 September 2021) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Local Agents, Newsletter - 2021-09-08, Promotions, Secretaries and clerks, Staff Categories
• Your medical file and your rights (2 September 2021) Categories: Data Protection, Health, Newsletter - 2021-09-20, workplace bullying and harassment
• Medical reservation = discrimination against persons with disabilities (long read) (30 August 2021) Categories: disability and special needs, Health, Newsletter - 2021-09-20, Staff Regulations Reform
• Sickness during annual leave: act fast and recover the days! (24 August 2021) Categories: Health, Leave, Newsletter - 2021-09-20, Working conditions
• Flooding in Europe: EU Staff COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund team and EU Staff for Climate (19 August 2021) Categories: Environment, Events
• Changes to financial rights after a breakup, does this affect you? (19 August 2021) Categories: Childcare, Newsletter - 2021-09-08, PMO
• Please support colleagues in Afghanistan (17 August 2021) Categories: EEAS, Local Agents, Petition
• Brexit and the annual travel allowance: explanation (16 August 2021) Categories: Brexit, Newsletter - 2021-09-08, place of origin, PMO
• Annual medical check-up: back to (socially distanced) normal (16 August 2021) Categories: COVID-19, Health, Newsletter - 2021-09-20, PMO
• Geel elections: Generation 2004 staff representatives 2021 (16 July 2021) Categories: Elections, Electoral reform, Geel
• Survey on workload, digital overload and burnout (14 July 2021) Categories: Health, Surveys, Working conditions
• Deadline extension: LA employment-conditions reform (30 June 2021) Categories: EEAS, Local Agents, Newsletter - 2021-05-21, Outside the Union
• Lingua franca, what? SCIC (30 June 2021) Categories: Brussels, Elections, Local Staff Committee, Newsletter - 2020-07-01
• UPDATE: our DG GROW reorganisation survey (30 June 2021) Categories: Newsletter - 2020-07-01, Surveys
• Stated aims and reality: AST/SC (30 June 2021) Categories: Junior Professionals Programme, Newsletter - 2020-07-01, Secretaries and clerks, Staff Regulations Reform
• IT office equipment … ongoing (29 June 2021) Categories: disability and special needs, Health, IT kit for telework, Newsletter - 2020-07-01, Teleworking
• UPDATE: Petition in support of Contract Agents! (28 June 2021) Categories: Assistants, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2020-07-01, Petition, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents
• The ‘new normal’: is this it? (24 June 2021) Categories: COVID-19, disability and special needs, Environment, IT kit for telework, Newsletter - 2020-07-01, return to the office-new normal, Social Dialogue, Teleworking, Working conditions
• UPDATE on teleworking in delegations – adapting work practice to a new reality (22 June 2021) Categories: Local Agents, Newsletter - 2020-07-01, Outside the Union, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Commission Representations conference Tuesday 22 June (21 June 2021) Categories: Events, Representations
• AST/SC conference Tuesday 22 June (21 June 2021) Categories: Assistants, Events, Petition, Secretaries and clerks, Staff Categories, Staff Regulations Reform
• The 2021 reclassification appeals season opens Tuesday 22 June, Generation 2004 is here to help (21 June 2021) Categories: Contract Agents, reclassification
• Members conference Thursday 24 June (20 June 2021) Categories: Events
• Conference FAQs: How to draft an appeal (17 June 2021) Categories: Events, FAQs, Promotions, reclassification
• How to draft an appeal: conference Thursday 17 June 12.00-14.00 (16 June 2021) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2021-06-16, Promotions, reclassification
• The 2021 promotion appeals season opens Thursday 17 June, Generation 2004 is here to help (16 June 2021) Categories: Newsletter - 2021-06-16, Promotions, reclassification
• COVID-19: The latest on the digital certificate, vaccination and more (16 June 2021) Categories: COVID-19, IT kit for telework, Newsletter - 2021-06-16, return to the office-new normal, Teleworking
• Luxembourg members conference Friday 25 June (15 June 2021) Categories: Events, Luxembourg
• Brick by brick breaking bad behaviours: lunchtime coaching (15 June 2021) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2020-07-01, Newsletter - 2021-06-16, Training
• CBT training offer: July 2021 (15 June 2021) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2020-07-01, Newsletter - 2021-06-16, Training
• Stop the AST/SC exploitation NOW (14 June 2021) Categories: Assistants, Junior Professionals Programme, Newsletter - 2021-06-16, Pensions, Petition, Secretaries and clerks, Staff Categories, Staff Regulations Reform
• Teleworking from abroad: YES, WE CAN! (13 June 2021) Categories: COVID-19, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2021-06-16, Teleworking, teleworking from anywhere
• The old guards maintaining the status quo in Karlsruhe and Geel (13 June 2021) Categories: Elections, Electoral reform, Geel, Karlsruhe, Newsletter - 2021-06-16
• On career unionism and the fallacy of irreplaceability (long read) (8 June 2021) Categories: Central Staff Committee, Elections, Local Staff Committee, Newsletter - 2021-06-16, OSPs, Social Dialogue
• CBT training offer: starting 7 June 2021 (31 May 2021) Categories: Events, Training
• ‘Wild West of Teleworking’ Photography Contest: winners! (21 May 2021) Categories: additional teleworking costs, Cost of living Luxembourg, IT kit for telework, Newsletter - 2021-05-21, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Get ready: the return to the office is starting in June (21 May 2021) Categories: COVID-19, Newsletter - 2021-05-21, return to the office-new normal, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Hot-desking: do not mistake the finger for the Moon! (21 May 2021) Categories: Newsletter - 2021-05-21, Open Plan Office, return to the office-new normal, Social Dialogue, Working conditions
• The future: no more lunch in Commission buildings (21 May 2021) Categories: Childcare, Newsletter - 2021-05-21, return to the office-new normal, Working conditions
• Reimbursement of the annual medical check-up during COVID (21 May 2021) Categories: COVID-19, Health, Newsletter - 2021-05-21, PMO
• How to decode and successfully communicate with your co-workers? (21 May 2021) Categories: Events, Newsletter - 2021-05-21, Training
• Local agent employment-conditions reform (21 May 2021) Categories: EEAS, Local Agents, Newsletter - 2021-05-21, Outside the Union
• Survivor’s pension: discrimination (21 May 2021) Categories: Newsletter - 2021-05-21, Pensions, PMO
• Corporate credit cards: what changed? (21 May 2021) Categories: Newsletter - 2021-05-21, PMO
• New teleworking scheme: longer working days and more micromanagement? (28 April 2021) Categories: Childcare, Health, IT kit for telework, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2021-04-28, Open Plan Office, Staff Regulations Reform, Teleworking, Working conditions
• The same electoral rules for all! (28 April 2021) Categories: Brussels, Elections, Electoral reform, Geel, Ispra-Seville, Karlsruhe, Local Staff Committee, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2021-04-28, Outside the Union, Petten, Social Dialogue
• Generation 2004’s position on ‘sofagate’ and beyond… (25 April 2021) Categories: News + Press, Newsletter - 2021-04-28, Working conditions
• Brussels LSC and the Interpreters’ Delegation (24 April 2021) Categories: Brussels, Local Staff Committee, Newsletter - 2021-04-28
• Welcome to ‘The Wild West of Teleworking’ Photography Contest (22 April 2021) Categories: additional teleworking costs, IT kit for telework, Newsletter - 2021-04-28, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Coaching lunchtime sessions on how to efficiently work digitally (22 April 2021) Categories: Events, Health, Newsletter - 2021-04-28, Training
• AST/SC SC6 the Loch Ness monster of staff grades (22 April 2021) Categories: Assistants, Newsletter - 2021-04-28, Secretaries and clerks
• Free coaching with certified Commission colleagues (25 March 2021) Categories: Newsletter - 2021-03-26, Professional mobility, Services, Training
• Brexit update: UK-only TA/CA staff: transparency in application of criteria please (25 March 2021) Categories: Brexit, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2021-03-26, Temporary Agents
• A difficult Easter for DG SCIC staff? (25 March 2021) Categories: Newsletter - 2021-03-26, Teleworking, Working conditions
• CBT training offer (25 March 2021) Categories: EPSO, Newsletter - 2021-03-26, Professional mobility, Training
• Latest on COVID: vaccines a little behind initial estimates (25 March 2021) Categories: Childcare, COVID-19, Leave, Newsletter - 2021-03-26, Open Plan Office, return to the office-new normal, Teleworking, Working conditions
• How do those outside the Union get reimbursed for PCR tests? (25 March 2021) Categories: COVID-19, Health, Outside the Union
• Remote-working precedent: a workaround or a can of worms? (24 March 2021) Categories: CHAFEA, Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2021-03-26, Outside the Union, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Special DGT meeting (24 March 2021) Categories: Institutions, Newsletter - 2021-03-26, Standby duty, Working conditions
• Teleworking from abroad before the Easter break (4 March 2021) Categories: COVID-19, Health, Newsletter - 2021-03-04, Teleworking
• Latest news on COVID vaccination, teleworking and the right to disconnect (4 March 2021) Categories: COVID-19, Health, Newsletter - 2021-03-04, PMO, Social Dialogue, Teleworking
• Certification: you asked, we answer! (4 March 2021) Categories: Assistants, Certification, Newsletter - 2021-03-04
• Digital overload and the right to disconnect: the Commission must act now! (4 March 2021) Categories: COVID-19, Health, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2021-03-04, Teleworking
• The ONE: the latest casualty of the hot-desking policy of the Commission (4 March 2021) Categories: Health, Newsletter - 2021-03-04, Open Plan Office, return to the office-new normal, Social Dialogue, Working conditions
• The mystery of how DGs choose promotion proposals (15 February 2021) Categories: Newsletter - 2021-03-04, Promotions
• 2021 Contract Agent Mobility exercise – Please let us know your challenges! (10 February 2021) Categories: Contract Agents, Outside the Union, Professional mobility
• Certified ASTs: an endangered species? (3 February 2021) Categories: Assistants, Certification, Newsletter - 2021-02-03, Promotions
• Central Staff Committee voted to continue Business as Usual (3 February 2021) Categories: Central Staff Committee, Elections, Electoral reform, Newsletter - 2021-02-03, Social Dialogue
• Psychological support changes *obsolete* (3 February 2021) Categories: COVID-19, Health, Newsletter - 2021-02-03, PMO
• CPPT: keeping up the good work to safeguard the health and safety of staff (3 February 2021) Categories: Health, Newsletter - 2021-02-03, Open Plan Office
• Office-space reorganisation in DG Trade: the latest (3 February 2021) Categories: Newsletter - 2021-02-03, Open Plan Office, return to the office-new normal
• Good news: 100% reimbursement of COVID-19 vaccination costs (3 February 2021) Categories: COVID-19, Health, Newsletter - 2021-02-03
• Update to special-leave-for-parents petition (3 February 2021) Categories: Childcare, COVID-19, Health, Newsletter - 2021-02-03, Petition, Surveys, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Generation 2004 is hiring a 50% time Secretary at the European Commission in Brussels (28 January 2021) Categories: Contract Agents, Vacancy
• 2021 appraisal and promotion/reclassification exercises conference (21 December 2020) Categories: Events, Promotions, reclassification, workplace bullying and harassment
• Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! (18 December 2020) Categories: Newsletter - 2020-12-18
• Return to the office well out of sight (18 December 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Health, Newsletter - 2020-12-18, PMO, return to the office-new normal, Social Dialogue, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Local agents update (18 December 2020) Categories: Local Agents, Newsletter - 2020-12-18, Outside the Union, Staff Regulations Reform, Working conditions
• Home-office equipment dilemma: zero clarity (18 December 2020) Categories: additional teleworking costs, COVID-19, IT kit for telework, Newsletter - 2020-12-18, PMO, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Junior Professionals Programme (JPP) open for contract agents – or not (18 December 2020) Categories: Assistants, Contract Agents, Junior Professionals Programme, Newsletter - 2020-12-18, Secretaries and clerks, Staff Categories
• Office-space reorganisation: reply from DG Trade (18 December 2020) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Contract Agents, Health, Newsletter - 2020-12-18, Open Plan Office
• Teleworking from abroad: Survey results are out (17 December 2020) Categories: Newsletter - 2020-12-18, Staff Regulations Reform, Surveys, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Things to check before holidays start (Tips) (17 December 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Health, Leave, Newsletter - 2020-12-18, PMO, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Finally – reimbursement of teleworking costs (18 November 2020) Categories: additional teleworking costs, Contract Agents, COVID-19, EEAS, Health, Institutions, IT kit for telework, Local Agents, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2020-11-19, seconded national experts, Staff Categories, Teleworking, Temporary Agents, Working conditions
• Brexit: CJEU confirms fears on loss of entitlements (18 November 2020) Categories: Brexit, Newsletter - 2020-11-19, Working conditions
• Need to design a modern HR policy? Please start with the most evident modifications! (18 November 2020) Categories: Contract Agents, Internal Competitions, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2020-11-19, Petition, Promotions, reclassification
• On endorsing the flawed promotion system: amnesia at the staff committee (18 November 2020) Categories: Newsletter - 2020-11-19, Promotions
• Extension for your decision on the new local agent conditions – 31 June 2021 (16 November 2020) Categories: Local Agents, Newsletter - 2020-11-19, Working conditions
• Promotion/reclassification exercises 2020 (12 November 2020) Categories: Newsletter - 2020-11-19, Promotions, reclassification
• 2020 The yearly salary update: time for the exception clause (10 November 2020) Categories: Newsletter - 2020-11-19, yearly salary update
• The new European School of Brussels (24 October 2020) Categories: Education, European Schools, Newsletter - 2020-10-23
• Do you want to be able to telework from outside your place of employment? (23 October 2020) Categories: New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2020-10-23, Newsletter - 2020-11-19, Staff Regulations Reform, Teleworking
• HR key figures 2020 (23 October 2020) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Contract Agents, Temporary Agents
• Transfer-out of pension rights when leaving the institutions (23 October 2020) Categories: Newsletter - 2020-10-23, Pensions
• Catch-22: Do as I say, not as I do (23 October 2020) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2020-10-23, Temporary Agents
• A perfect storm of change: more staff made available to process PMO file updates for Belgian family allowance (23 October 2020) Categories: Newsletter - 2020-10-23, PMO
• New HR Strategy – Modernisation or opportunism? The European Green Deal and the multi-annual financial framework (MFF) (6 October 2020) Categories: Environment, Multiannual financial framework (MFF), New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2020-10-07, Staff Categories, Working conditions
• COVID-19: Return to office put on hold (6 October 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Newsletter - 2020-10-07, return to the office-new normal, Teleworking
• Avoiding surprises with JSIS when choosing a psychotherapist (6 October 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Health, Newsletter - 2020-10-07
• Do you want to prevent burnout? (6 October 2020) Categories: Health, Newsletter - 2020-10-07, Newsletter - 2020-10-23, Training
• Approaching deadline: don’t miss out on Commission repayment of exceptional education costs (6 October 2020) Categories: Education, Newsletter - 2020-10-07
• ‘Full-time attendance at an educational establishment’: what counts? (6 October 2020) Categories: Education, Newsletter - 2020-10-07
• European Mobility Week 2020 (24 September 2020) Categories: commuting, Environment, Mobility and Climate, Newsletter - 2020-09-28, Newsletter - 2020-10-07
• Contract Agents’ and Assistants’ access to internal competitions: Reply by Director-General Ingestad (21 September 2020) Categories: Assistants, Contract Agents, Internal Competitions, New HR strategy, Newsletter - 2020-09-28, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents
• CHAFEA risking massive loss of expertise (21 September 2020) Categories: CHAFEA, Newsletter - 2020-09-28
• Certification in the JRC – one size does not fit all (21 September 2020) Categories: Assistants, Certification, Geel, Ispra-Seville, Karlsruhe, Newsletter - 2020-09-28, Petten
• New teleworking guidelines and teleworking from abroad: here we go again! (14 July 2020) Categories: additional teleworking costs, COVID-19, Teleworking
• Indomitable spirit. Taking on the institutions and winning! (14 July 2020) Categories: Promotions, Working conditions
• Modernisation of the Local Agents working conditions (13 July 2020) Categories: EEAS, Institutions, Local Agents, Outside the Union, Staff Categories, Working conditions
• A national-insurance card for colleagues in the Netherlands (13 July 2020) Categories: Health, Newsletter - 2020-09-28, Working conditions
• Online training courses for the EPSO assessment centre and the secretary concours (SC 1 and SC 2) (3 July 2020) Categories: EPSO, Training
• Forced leave, a dream… err… a nightmare come true… (3 July 2020) Categories: EEAS, Leave, Newsletter - 2020-07-03, Outside the Union
• Latest news on the missions perimeter (3 July 2020) Categories: Geel, Ispra-Seville, Karlsruhe, Newsletter - 2020-07-03, Petten
• Summer teleworking from abroad at DG FISMA (2 July 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Newsletter - 2020-07-03, Teleworking
• Petition in support of Contract Agents! (26 June 2020) Categories: Assistants, Contract Agents, Newsletter - 2020-07-03, Petition, Temporary Agents
• The EEAS under the EP’s microscope (23 June 2020) Categories: EEAS, Newsletter - 2020-07-03
• Chafea II: the final countdown? (20 June 2020) Categories: CHAFEA, Newsletter - 2020-07-03
• MFF: Next Generation on a shoestring? (17 June 2020) Categories: Multiannual financial framework (MFF), Newsletter - 2020-06-17, solidarity levy, Working conditions
• The 2020 promotion appeals season opens tomorrow, Generation 2004 is here to help (17 June 2020) Categories: Newsletter - 2020-06-17, Promotions
• Watch out! Updated teleworking guidelines coming on 22 June (17 June 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Newsletter - 2020-06-17, Teleworking
• Were British Hats really left at the door? (16 June 2020) Categories: Brexit, Newsletter - 2020-07-03
• Commission childcare facilities in Brussels during the COVID-19 crisis (12 June 2020) Categories: Childcare, COVID-19, Newsletter - 2020-06-17
• From the special-leave-for-parents petition to the social dialogue meeting (12 June 2020) Categories: Childcare, COVID-19, Newsletter - 2020-06-17, Social Dialogue
• Generation 2004 acts to protect EU staff’s health and well-being (11 June 2020) Categories: Health, Open Plan Office
• Back to school in Brussels? (2 June 2020) Categories: Brussels, COVID-19, European Schools, Newsletter - 2020-06-02
• To return or not to return (to the office)? That is the question! (1 June 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Newsletter - 2020-06-02, return to the office-new normal
• Coronavirus Special leave petition results and social dialogue (29 May 2020) Categories: Childcare, COVID-19, Leave, Newsletter - 2020-06-02, Petition, Social Dialogue
• Covid-19 – new teleworking guidelines and reimbursements of necessary costs (28 May 2020) Categories: additional teleworking costs, COVID-19, Newsletter - 2020-06-02, Teleworking
• “No one left behind”? (28 May 2020) Categories: COVID-19
• Time credits leave (28 May 2020) Categories: Leave, Newsletter - 2020-06-02
• Closure of the CHAFEA agency in Luxembourg (11 May 2020) Categories: CHAFEA, Luxembourg, Newsletter - 2020-05-14
• Sign the petition on a coronavirus special leave for parents with children (4 May 2020) Categories: Childcare, COVID-19, Newsletter - 2020-05-05, Teleworking
• ‘Operation Return’: Action plan for the gradual return to the office (3 May 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Newsletter - 2020-05-05, return to the office-new normal
• “Nihil de nobis, sine nobis!” at the EEAS Social Dialogue (3 May 2020) Categories: Local Agents, Newsletter - 2020-05-05, Outside the Union, Social Dialogue, Staff Categories
• Online training courses for the EPSO assessment centre (30 April 2020) Categories: EPSO, Training
• Covid-19 – we are raising your problems with the Administration (27 April 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Newsletter - 2020-05-05
• Thought Field Therapy training (27 April 2020) Categories: Health
• Teleworkers need help (27 April 2020) Categories: additional teleworking costs, COVID-19, IT kit for telework, Newsletter - 2020-05-05, Teleworking
• “Generation 2004 stands by staff on standby” yet again (23 April 2020) Categories: Newsletter - 2020-05-14, Standby duty, Working conditions
• Generation 2004 requests suspension of staff rotation in Representations during COVID-19 crisis (23 April 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Newsletter - 2020-05-05, Representations
• Note to DG HR on COVID-19 working conditions (20 April 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Working conditions
• Generation 2004 is hiring a Secretary at the European Commission in Brussels (15 April 2020) Categories: Newsletter - 2020-05-05, Vacancy
• Positive change at the Brussels Local Staff Committee? (15 April 2020) Categories: Brussels, Newsletter - 2020-04-16
• A little reminder why Generation 2004 MUST exist (15 April 2020) Categories: Newsletter - 2020-04-16, Pensions, Staff Regulations Reform
• Updated conversion coefficients for transfer of pension rights (15 April 2020) Categories: Newsletter - 2020-04-16, Pensions
• Available options for complementary health insurance (15 April 2020) Categories: Complementary coverage, Newsletter - 2020-04-16
• Current exceptional guidelines on teleworking (15 April 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Newsletter - 2020-04-16, Teleworking, Working conditions
• EU staff COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund (8 April 2020) Categories: COVID-19
• How to cope with work, handle challenges at home while maintaining good health? (1 April 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Health, Newsletter #40 - Apr 2020, return to the office-new normal, Teleworking, Working conditions
• Generation 2004 welcomes the new DG HR Director General Gertrud INGESTAD (1 April 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Newsletter #40 - Apr 2020, z Newsletter article
• Ever heard of social dialogue and how important it is for the Commission Staff? (1 April 2020) Categories: Newsletter #40 - Apr 2020, Social Dialogue
• Families at the time of coronavirus (1 April 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Newsletter #40 - Apr 2020
• United against Covid-19 – please sign and share the petition (1 April 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Newsletter #40 - Apr 2020
• Free (public) transport in Luxembourg: should I be bothered? (1 April 2020) Categories: commuting, Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Newsletter #40 - Apr 2020
• Cycling allowance (1 April 2020) Categories: Environment, Health, Mobility and Climate, Newsletter #40 - Apr 2020
• Current exceptional guidelines on telework (23 March 2020) Categories: COVID-19, Teleworking
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) (24 February 2020) Categories: COVID-19
• Let’s join the European march for Future on Friday 6 March! (23 February 2020) Categories: Environment
• EU Staff4Climate Lunchtime Conference (14 February 2020) Categories: Environment
• Crocodile tears at the Court of the Queen of Hearts (13 February 2020) Categories: News + Press, Newsletter #39 - Feb 2020
• Is Staff Representation a Fake? (13 February 2020) Categories: Newsletter #39 - Feb 2020
• Generation 2004 welcomes Commissioner Hahn (13 February 2020) Categories: Newsletter #39 - Feb 2020
• The Social Dialogue is coming to the Executive Agencies (13 February 2020) Categories: Newsletter #39 - Feb 2020
• Are unpaid services received to be considered part of income? (13 February 2020) Categories: Newsletter #39 - Feb 2020
• JSIS reimbursement rates – how are they determined? (13 February 2020) Categories: Health, Newsletter #39 - Feb 2020
• Plastic waste in the European Commission (13 February 2020) Categories: Environment, Newsletter #39 - Feb 2020
• AST, AST/SC Conferences (13 February 2020) Categories: Events, Newsletter #39 - Feb 2020
• Appraisal is almost over, Promotion season is coming (13 February 2020) Categories: Newsletter #39 - Feb 2020, Promotions
• Farewell UK, and thanks for all the stress… (13 February 2020) Categories: Brexit, Newsletter #39 - Feb 2020
• Positive change at the Brussels Local Staff Committee (11 February 2020) Categories: Newsletter #39 - Feb 2020
• Generation 2004 is hiring a Secretary at the European Commission in Brussels (11 February 2020) Categories: Newsletter #39 - Feb 2020, Vacancy, z Newsletter article
• The promotion exercice of 2020 is on! (7 January 2020) Categories: Promotions
• 2020 Appraisal and Promotion exercises Conference (6 January 2020) Categories: Events, Promotions
• 2020 Annual Leave in Delegations (12 December 2019) Categories: Leave, Newsletter #38 - Dec 2019, Outside the Union, Working conditions
• Luxembourg has elected a new Local Staff Committee (10 December 2019) Categories: Elections, Local Staff Committee, Luxembourg, Newsletter #38 - Dec 2019
• On the functioning of the Brussels LSC (10 December 2019) Categories: Brussels, Electoral reform, Local Staff Committee, Newsletter #38 - Dec 2019
• The new booking tool NEO – Sustainable travel? (10 December 2019) Categories: Newsletter #38 - Dec 2019
• Social Dialogue in the Executive Agencies: State of play (10 December 2019) Categories: Agencies, Newsletter #38 - Dec 2019
• Acquired rights… and acquired disadvantages (10 December 2019) Categories: Assistants, Certification, Contract Agents, Newsletter #38 - Dec 2019, Secretaries and clerks
• Will the Commission ever become a ‘Workplace of the Future’? (10 December 2019) Categories: Newsletter #38 - Dec 2019
• Commissioner Oettinger visited Luxembourg (9 December 2019) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Newsletter #38 - Dec 2019
• 2019 pay rise: 2.0% + 0.3% (9 December 2019) Categories: Newsletter #38 - Dec 2019, yearly salary update
• Social dialogue on Temporary Agents (9 December 2019) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #38 - Dec 2019, Staff Categories, Temporary Agents
• Lunchtime seminar on correction coefficient for Luxembourg (9 December 2019) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Events, Newsletter #38 - Dec 2019
• Follow up on the option to work 95% for family reasons (9 December 2019) Categories: disability and special needs, Newsletter #38 - Dec 2019
• Promotion exercise 2019 (9 December 2019) Categories: Newsletter #38 - Dec 2019, Promotions
• Generation 2004 is hiring a Secretary at the European Commission in Brussels (2 December 2019) Categories: Vacancy
• Playing Three-card Trick with voters? And the winner is … the Alliance? (12 November 2019) Categories: Elections, Electoral reform, Local Staff Committee, Luxembourg
• Option to work 95% for family reasons (16 October 2019) Categories: Part-time
• Repayment of exceptional costs (10 October 2019) Categories: Education, European Schools
• Conference on Correction Coefficients (4 October 2019) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Events
• We said it all along; now it is official: EU officials unhappy (30 September 2019) Categories: Newsletter #37 - Sep 2019, Pensions, Promotions, Staff Regulations Reform
• Cost of living/Correction coefficient in Luxembourg (30 September 2019) Categories: Cost of living Luxembourg, Newsletter #37 - Sep 2019
• Generation 2004 stands by staff on standby (30 September 2019) Categories: Newsletter #37 - Sep 2019, Standby duty
• Certification procedure 2019 (30 September 2019) Categories: Certification, Newsletter #37 - Sep 2019
• BU-xit? NO! (30 September 2019) Categories: Newsletter #37 - Sep 2019
• Unofficial minutes of the General Assembly in Luxembourg of 9 July 2019 (30 September 2019) Categories: Electoral reform, Luxembourg, Newsletter #37 - Sep 2019
• Selection criteria for a complementary health scheme (30 September 2019) Categories: Complementary coverage, Newsletter #37 - Sep 2019
• Follow-up on last week’s fight for climate (30 September 2019) Categories: Newsletter #37 - Sep 2019
• Driving the Social Monologue (30 September 2019) Categories: Newsletter #37 - Sep 2019, Social Dialogue
• Generation 2004 actively supports the global Climate Action Week and invites all colleagues to join it (18 September 2019) Categories: Environment
• Generation 2004 supports Bruxsel’air Brussels clean air initiative (14 August 2019) Categories: Environment, Mobility and Climate
• The electoral system of the Luxembourg LSC is flawed and should be changed!!! (28 June 2019) Categories: Elections, Electoral reform, Local Staff Committee, Luxembourg, Newsletter #36 - Jun 2019
• DG COMM staff expresses its opinion on rotation and mobility (28 June 2019) Categories: Newsletter #36 - Jun 2019
• Social Dialogue in the Executive Agencies: A state of play. (28 June 2019) Categories: Newsletter #36 - Jun 2019
• The End of 23 Years of Institutional Illegality (28 June 2019) Categories: Newsletter #36 - Jun 2019
• Is the Luxembourgish government asking for the opening of the Staff Regulations? (28 June 2019) Categories: Newsletter #36 - Jun 2019
• Generation 2004 takes a European Schools student for an internship (28 June 2019) Categories: Newsletter #36 - Jun 2019
• DG COMM presents Health and safety in the EC Representations at the LSC Brussels (28 June 2019) Categories: Newsletter #36 - Jun 2019, Representations
• External health insurance as a supplement to JSIS (28 June 2019) Categories: Complementary coverage, Newsletter #36 - Jun 2019
• Reimbursement of speech therapy or psychologists – a long lasting battle (24 June 2019) Categories: Newsletter #36 - Jun 2019
• Medical coverage for disabled staff (24 June 2019) Categories: disability and special needs, Health, Newsletter #36 - Jun 2019
• Sign the EU staff petition to new EU leaders on the climate and ecological emergency! (24 June 2019) Categories: Newsletter #36 - Jun 2019
• Generation 2004 has a new elected board and chair (24 May 2019) Categories: Newsletter #35 - May 2019
• Meeting with Commissioner Oettinger (24 May 2019) Categories: Newsletter #35 - May 2019
• Generation 2004’s Contract Agents’ NEW initiative to get rid of inequality in the EU Workplace (24 May 2019) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #35 - May 2019
• DG BUDG: the return of the collaborative workspace fad (24 May 2019) Categories: Health, Newsletter #35 - May 2019, Open Plan Office
• Reimbursement scheme for public transport expenses in Commission Representations (24 May 2019) Categories: commuting, Newsletter #35 - May 2019, Representations
• Generation 2004’s position on pensions (24 May 2019) Categories: Newsletter #35 - May 2019, Pensions
• European schools: Finally a small step in the right direction (24 May 2019) Categories: Newsletter #35 - May 2019
• Promotion exercise 2019 – Where are we? (24 May 2019) Categories: Newsletter #35 - May 2019, Promotions
• Is HR modernising itself? (24 May 2019) Categories: Newsletter #35 - May 2019
• A beautiful mind – a beautiful heart – a beautiful soul (5 April 2019) Categories: Newsletter #34 - Apr 2019, z Newsletter article
• Land Art Association – An EU minded forest-planting NGO (5 April 2019) Categories: Newsletter #34 - Apr 2019, z Newsletter article
• On (mis)managing recruitment of European Schools teachers (5 April 2019) Categories: Newsletter #34 - Apr 2019, z Newsletter article
• Commissioner Oettinger on taxation of EU Officials (5 April 2019) Categories: Newsletter #34 - Apr 2019, solidarity levy, Working conditions, z Newsletter article
• Generation 2004 deals with harassment (5 April 2019) Categories: disability and special needs, Newsletter #34 - Apr 2019, workplace bullying and harassment, z Newsletter article
• On brutality (5 April 2019) Categories: Newsletter #34 - Apr 2019, z Newsletter article
• Article 90 complaint on Internal competitions (5 April 2019) Categories: Newsletter #34 - Apr 2019, z Newsletter article
• The promotion exercice of 2019 is on! (4 April 2019) Categories: Newsletter #34 - Apr 2019, Promotions, z Newsletter article
• Operation “Quick Fix” (14 March 2019) Categories: Newsletter #33 - Mar 2019, z Newsletter article
• The future is here!!! But at what cost for staff? (14 March 2019) Categories: Newsletter #33 - Mar 2019, z Newsletter article
• Did you know? – Presidency of the Council of the EU (14 March 2019) Categories: Newsletter #33 - Mar 2019, z Newsletter article
• Climate Change, 15 of March 2019 (14 March 2019) Categories: Environment, Mobility and Climate, Newsletter #33 - Mar 2019, z Newsletter article
• CO2 emissions from different transport modes (14 March 2019) Categories: Newsletter #33 - Mar 2019, z Newsletter article
• Staff representation reform – state of (no) play… (14 March 2019) Categories: Newsletter #33 - Mar 2019, z Newsletter article
• DG RTD reorganization presented at the LSC Brussels (14 March 2019) Categories: Newsletter #33 - Mar 2019, z Newsletter article
• JSIS – Reimbursment of the pre-natal test (14 March 2019) Categories: Newsletter #33 - Mar 2019, z Newsletter article
• Betrayal and humiliation or the advantage of having friends in high places (14 March 2019) Categories: Newsletter #33 - Mar 2019, z Newsletter article
• Sick Leave before or after annual leave (14 March 2019) Categories: Health, Leave, Newsletter #33 - Mar 2019, Working conditions, z Newsletter article
• Self-Assessment conference in Luxembourg (10 January 2019) Categories: Events, Promotions
• Self-Assessment conference in Brussels (6 January 2019) Categories: Events, Promotions
• Brussels Local Staff Committee Elections (19 December 2018) Categories: Elections, Newsletter #32 - Dec 2018, z Newsletter article
• Elections of the Outside Union Local Staff Committee (19 December 2018) Categories: Elections, Newsletter #32 - Dec 2018, z Newsletter article
• The Commission still does not believe in the intelligence of its staff! (19 December 2018) Categories: Contract Agents, Internal Competitions, Newsletter #32 - Dec 2018, z Newsletter article
• Promotions (Article 90) (19 December 2018) Categories: Newsletter #32 - Dec 2018, Promotions, z Newsletter article
• 7-year rule for non-permanent staff – What does it imply? (19 December 2018) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #32 - Dec 2018, Temporary Agents, z Newsletter article
• Shorter annual leave for officials posted in a third country violates their fundamental right to paid annual leave (19 December 2018) Categories: Newsletter #32 - Dec 2018, z Newsletter article
• Candidates’ video (7 November 2018) Categories: Elections, Outside the Union
• ABC of Staff Representation and Social Dialogue at the EC (7 November 2018) Categories: Elections, Newsletter #31 - Nov 2018, z Newsletter article
• Generation 2004’s position on pensions (6 November 2018) Categories: Pensions
• Fact checking: Outside Union Elections (6 November 2018) Categories: Elections, Newsletter #31 - Nov 2018, z Newsletter article
• Spamming & walls covered with election posters! (6 November 2018) Categories: Newsletter #31 - Nov 2018, z Newsletter article
• The Parliament’s Passerelle – the easy way in! (6 November 2018) Categories: Newsletter #31 - Nov 2018, z Newsletter article
• Generation 2004 & support for colleagues with cancer (6 November 2018) Categories: disability and special needs, Newsletter #31 - Nov 2018, z Newsletter article
• Generation 2004 & actions for our colleagues with disability (6 November 2018) Categories: disability and special needs, Health, Newsletter #31 - Nov 2018, z Newsletter article
• VOTE LIST 4 (17 October 2018) Categories: Elections
• Fact Checking (2 October 2018) Categories: News + Press, Newsletter #30 - Oct 2018, z Newsletter article
• Staff elections in Brussels and outside the Union 2018 (2 October 2018) Categories: Newsletter #30 - Oct 2018, z Newsletter article
• Internal competitions 2018 (2 October 2018) Categories: Newsletter #30 - Oct 2018, z Newsletter article
• Now all want to own the Local Staff Committee success story (2 October 2018) Categories: Newsletter #30 - Oct 2018, z Newsletter article
• Greenpeace & Generation 2004 lunch-time conference on Air Quality (2 October 2018) Categories: commuting, Environment, Events, Mobility and Climate, Newsletter #30 - Oct 2018, z Newsletter article
• Salaries paid in currencies other than Euros in Delegations (2 October 2018) Categories: Newsletter #30 - Oct 2018, z Newsletter article
• New Commission building (26 September 2018) Categories: Newsletter #30 - Oct 2018
• CO2 emissions (26 September 2018) Categories: Newsletter #30 - Oct 2018
• Promotion exercise 2018 (20 June 2018) Categories: Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, Promotions, z Newsletter article
• DGT is facing an exceptionally high workload: gloomy perspectives for the future (20 June 2018) Categories: Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, z Newsletter article
• Junior Professionals Pilot Programme 2018 – A new idea of DG HR sold for talent management! (20 June 2018) Categories: Junior Professionals Programme, Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, z Newsletter article
• Generation 2004 doubles number of seats in Ispra/Seville LSC Elections (20 June 2018) Categories: Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, z Newsletter article
• Staff elections in Brussels in autumn 2018 (19 June 2018) Categories: Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, z Newsletter article
• 130% increase of parental contribution for outdoor childcare! Your voice counts! (19 June 2018) Categories: Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, z Newsletter article
• The 6-year rules (19 June 2018) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, Staff Categories, Temporary Agents, z Newsletter article
• Achievements of the Brussels Local Staff Committee during the term 2015-2018 (19 June 2018) Categories: Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, z Newsletter article
• Why a job description is so important for a CA career? (19 June 2018) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, z Newsletter article
• Legal framework for Local Agents – finally fairly treated? (19 June 2018) Categories: Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, z Newsletter article
• Fact Checking (19 June 2018) Categories: Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, z Newsletter article
• Secretly Fighting Against Precariousness (19 June 2018) Categories: Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, z Newsletter article
• East Anglia Survey- Deadline is 22 June! (19 June 2018) Categories: Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, z Newsletter article
• Professional Mobility survey: the results are out! (19 June 2018) Categories: Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, Surveys, z Newsletter article
• Reform of the social dialogue – Will staff representation disappear from smaller sites as the Local Staff Committee of Luxembourg tells you? (19 June 2018) Categories: Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, z Newsletter article
• Are you registered to vote in Belgium? Don’t miss the deadline – your voice counts! (19 June 2018) Categories: Newsletter #29 - Jun 2018, z Newsletter article
• Generation 2004 – Promotion appeals 2018 (18 June 2018) Categories: Promotions
• New Ways to collaborate in the work place (4 June 2018) Categories: Events
• The promotion system for officials: How it works (18 April 2018) Categories: Newsletter #28 - Apr 2018, Promotions, z Newsletter article
• Reform of the promotion system (18 April 2018) Categories: Features, Newsletter #28 - Apr 2018, Promotions, z Newsletter article
• Where there is a will, there is a way! (at least for the chosen ones) (18 April 2018) Categories: Newsletter #28 - Apr 2018, z Newsletter article
• Staff representatives meet Commissioner Oettinger (18 April 2018) Categories: Newsletter #28 - Apr 2018, z Newsletter article
• The pink bubble of wishful thinking and the truth about AST career future (18 April 2018) Categories: Assistants, Certification, Newsletter #28 - Apr 2018, z Newsletter article
• Generation 2004’s action on mobility in the Brussels region (18 April 2018) Categories: disability and special needs, Newsletter #28 - Apr 2018, z Newsletter article
• Staff representation and its functioning in the European Commission (18 April 2018) Categories: Newsletter #28 - Apr 2018, z Newsletter article
• NEW Appraisal of contract agents “3b”…. What is it for??? (18 April 2018) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #28 - Apr 2018, z Newsletter article
• Brexit news for British staff (18 April 2018) Categories: Brexit, Newsletter #28 - Apr 2018, solidarity levy, z Newsletter article
• “Authorised travel”: how a good idea got thwarted before it could even be tried in practice (18 April 2018) Categories: Newsletter #28 - Apr 2018, PMO, z Newsletter article
• Survey on professional mobility (18 April 2018) Categories: Newsletter #28 - Apr 2018, Surveys, z Newsletter article
• Parachuting (18 April 2018) Categories: Elections, Newsletter #28 - Apr 2018, z Newsletter article
• MFF 2021-2027: Heading V of the EU budget (28 February 2018) Categories: Features, Newsletter #27 - Feb 2018, z Newsletter article
• AST Conference: A life of an AST: is there light in the tunnel? (28 February 2018) Categories: Assistants, Events, Newsletter #27 - Feb 2018, z Newsletter article
• Modernisation of HR: the experiment goes on (28 February 2018) Categories: Features, Newsletter #27 - Feb 2018, z Newsletter article
• Voting rights to all Brussels residents (28 February 2018) Categories: Features, Newsletter #27 - Feb 2018, z Newsletter article
• Goldman Sachs, the bank that runs the world (28 February 2018) Categories: Features, Newsletter #27 - Feb 2018, z Newsletter article
• Pensions Conference (20 February 2018) Categories: Events, Newsletter #26 - Jan 2018, z Newsletter article
• Ispra/Seville Staff General Assembly (6 February 2018) Categories: Elections
• Dos & Don’ts of Self-appraisal & Appeals Conference (31 January 2018) Categories: Events
• The multiannual financial framework, MFF, 2021-2027 (31 January 2018) Categories: Features, Newsletter #26 - Jan 2018, z Newsletter article
• Pascal Le Grand appointed as new Chair of G2004 (31 January 2018) Categories: Features, Newsletter #26 - Jan 2018, z Newsletter article
• We are visiting Ispra & Seville staff this February! (31 January 2018) Categories: Features, Newsletter #26 - Jan 2018, z Newsletter article
• Contract Agents (follow up) (31 January 2018) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #26 - Jan 2018, z Newsletter article
• Threatening bankruptcy of MEP’s pensions Fund (28 January 2018) Categories: Newsletter #26 - Jan 2018, z Newsletter article
• Polish event supported by Generation 2004 (28 January 2018) Categories: Newsletter #26 - Jan 2018, z Newsletter article
• A member’s personal experience on settling the individual entitlements with PMO! (28 January 2018) Categories: Newsletter #26 - Jan 2018, PMO, z Newsletter article
• Transfer-out of pension rights (25 November 2017) Categories: Newsletter #25 – Nov 2017, Pensions, z Newsletter article
• Contract Agents Conference (25 November 2017) Categories: Contract Agents, Events, Newsletter #25 – Nov 2017, z Newsletter article
• Sustainable mobility in Brussels (25 November 2017) Categories: commuting, Environment, Features, Mobility and Climate, Newsletter #25 – Nov 2017, z Newsletter article
• Family Budget Survey starts this week in Brussels (25 November 2017) Categories: Features, Newsletter #25 – Nov 2017, z Newsletter article
• Annual Salary Adjustment 2017 (25 November 2017) Categories: Features, Newsletter #25 – Nov 2017, yearly salary update, z Newsletter article
• Report on the social dialogue at the Commission (25 November 2017) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #25 – Nov 2017, z Newsletter article
• Brexit and Staff Cuts (25 November 2017) Categories: Brexit, Newsletter #25 – Nov 2017, Pensions, z Newsletter article
• Britain faces soaring cost of Brussels pensions | News | The Times (25 November 2017) Categories: Brexit, Newsletter #25 – Nov 2017, z Newsletter article
• Une secte s’infiltre dans des formations de la Commission européenne | News | Luxemburger Wort (25 November 2017) Categories: Newsletter #25 – Nov 2017, z Newsletter article
• Have you been accused of unjustified absences in the recent past? (24 September 2017) Categories: Newsletter #24 - Sep 2017, z Newsletter article
• Who represents the staff and for how long: Staff representatives secondments and the 6-year rule (24 September 2017) Categories: Central Staff Committee, Elections, Features, Local Staff Committee, Newsletter #24 - Sep 2017, z Newsletter article
• Air quality in Brussels (24 September 2017) Categories: Environment, Features, Health, Mobility and Climate, Newsletter #24 - Sep 2017, z Newsletter article
• You are a Contract Agent? Share your experience with us! (24 September 2017) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #24 - Sep 2017, z Newsletter article
• Wind in our sails, but in what condition is our ship? (24 September 2017) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #24 - Sep 2017, z Newsletter article
• A new scheme to bypass the open competitions? (27 June 2017) Categories: Junior Professionals Programme
• Writing with Impact: Or how transparency makes a difference! (23 June 2017) Categories: Features, Newsletter #23 – Jun 2017, z Newsletter article
• Promotions: why are some years good and some other years bad? (23 June 2017) Categories: Newsletter #23 – Jun 2017, Promotions, z Newsletter article
• Pensions and Brexit (23 June 2017) Categories: Brexit, Newsletter #23 – Jun 2017, Pensions, z Newsletter article
• Social Dialogue on “External Activities” (23 June 2017) Categories: Contract Agents, Features, Newsletter #23 – Jun 2017, Staff Categories, Temporary Agents, z Newsletter article
• Petition on the future of Contract Agents (23 June 2017) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #23 – Jun 2017, z Newsletter article
• The Senior Expert against the Contract Agent (23 June 2017) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #23 – Jun 2017, z Newsletter article
• How to release stress, anxiety or any undesired emotion (16 May 2017) Categories: Events
• Post-reform Equal Pay Day (4 May 2017) Categories: Assistants, Contract Agents, Newsletter #22 – May 2017, Staff Categories, z Newsletter article
• BREXIT (4 May 2017) Categories: Brexit, Newsletter #22 – May 2017, z Newsletter article
• DG TRANSLATION: Kids of a lesser god or just the preview of the EC of the future? (4 May 2017) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #22 – May 2017, z Newsletter article
• CA Dossier: Is the current situation sustainable? (4 May 2017) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #22 – May 2017, z Newsletter article
• Outcome of the Conciliation meeting on the implementing rules for CAs (3 May 2017) Categories: Contract Agents, Features
• HEALTHY LIFE (5 April 2017) Categories: Events
• Art 90 Template – Promotion exercise 2016 (13 February 2017) Categories: Features, Promotions
• Outrage over EC approaching 1000 senior experts/senior assistants’ nominations – widening career gap and waste of precious administration budget (13 February 2017) Categories: Newsletter #21 – Feb 2017, Promotions, Staff Categories, z Newsletter article
• Growing inequalities in the Institutions (13 February 2017) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Contract Agents, Newsletter #21 – Feb 2017, Staff Categories, Staff Regulations Reform, z Newsletter article
• How the promotion system works, and why you might be disappointed with this year’s promotion exercise (13 February 2017) Categories: Promotions, z Newsletter article
• SOS your pension! – G2004 is exploring SOLUTIONS (10 February 2017) Categories: Features, Pensions
• SOS your pension! – The EU pension scheme is a barrier to mobility (10 February 2017) Categories: Features, Pensions
• SOS your pension! – Generation 2004’s analysis: drastic further reductions are looming (10 February 2017) Categories: Features, Pensions
• SOS your pension! – The facts: EU pension scheme for dummies (10 February 2017) Categories: Features, Pensions
• Letter from G2004 to Herr Günther Oettinger (27 January 2017) Categories: Features
• Appraisal exercise 2017: Questions & Replies document (24 January 2017) Categories: Features
• General Implementation Provisions for Contract Agents: a compromise which leads NOWHERE (20 December 2016) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #20 - Dec 2016, z Newsletter article
• Promotions: adapted Article 90 template available in January (20 December 2016) Categories: Newsletter #20 - Dec 2016, Promotions, z Newsletter article
• What you don’t know surely can hurt you! (20 December 2016) Categories: Newsletter #20 - Dec 2016, z Newsletter article
• Our letter to Ms Souka on Contract Agents (20 December 2016) Categories: Contract Agents, Newsletter #20 - Dec 2016, z Newsletter article
• Luxembourg Mathematics: 25 = 70 (20 December 2016) Categories: Features, Newsletter #20 - Dec 2016, z Newsletter article
• Surprise Surprise! Mr. Barroso gets a job in the private sector! (24 November 2016) Categories: Newsletter #19 – Nov 2016, z Newsletter article
• Breaking news: 3.5% pay raise for EU staff (24 November 2016) Categories: Newsletter #19 – Nov 2016, yearly salary update, z Newsletter article
• Parking Spaces (24 November 2016) Categories: Mobility and Climate, Newsletter #19 – Nov 2016, z Newsletter article
• You are hired/fired: Recruitment trends at the Commission! (24 November 2016) Categories: Contract Agents, Internal Competitions, Newsletter #19 – Nov 2016, Professional mobility, Staff Regulations Reform, z Newsletter article
• 28 Officials sent to early retirement this year! (24 November 2016) Categories: Newsletter #19 – Nov 2016, Pensions, z Newsletter article
• Generation 2004 Letter to Ms Souka on GIPs for Contract Agents, request on Art. 5 (5 September 2016) Categories: Features
• Let’s play chess (with a little bit of Poker) (18 July 2016) Categories: Brexit, Newsletter #18 - Jul 2016
• Newsletter #18 July 2016 (16 July 2016) Categories: Newsletter #18 - Jul 2016, z Newsletter article
• Lux Special Edition Newsletter July 2016 (15 July 2016) Categories: Lux Special Edition Newsletter July 2016, z Newsletter article
• Newsletter #17 June 2016 (16 June 2016) Categories: Newsletter #17 - Jun 2016, z Newsletter article
• To GIP or not to GIP – that is the question (18 May 2016) Categories: Features
• Newsletter #16 May 2016 (16 May 2016) Categories: Newsletter #16 - May 2016, z Newsletter article
• Post-reform Equal Pay Day (11 May 2016) Categories: Features
• Newsletter #15 February 2016 (16 February 2016) Categories: Newsletter #15 - Feb 2016, z Newsletter article
• Newsletter #14 December 2015 (15 December 2015) Categories: Newsletter #14 - Dec 2015, z Newsletter article
• Newsletter #13 November 2015 (15 November 2015) Categories: Newsletter #13 - Nov 2015, z Newsletter article
• The dark side of new “General Implementing Provisions for Contract Agents” (17 September 2015) Categories: Contract Agents
• Newsletter 12 (4 May 2015) Categories: News + Press
• Newsletter #12 April-May 2015 (2 May 2015) Categories: Newsletter #12 - Apr/May 2015, z Newsletter article
• Newsletter 11 (29 January 2015) Categories: News + Press
• Newsletter #11 January 2015 (15 January 2015) Categories: Newsletter #11 - Jan 2015, z Newsletter article
• The devil takes the hindmost (16 December 2014) Categories: Features
• Dirty games and money for nothing (16 December 2014) Categories: Features
• Candy Crush 2014 (16 December 2014) Categories: Certification, Features, Promotions
• Cucumbers and grapes (16 December 2014) Categories: Features
• Newsletter #10 December 2014 (15 December 2014) Categories: Newsletter #10 - Dec 2014, z Newsletter article
• Commission staff survey – 2014 (3 December 2014) Categories: Newsletter #9 - Nov 2014, Surveys, z Newsletter article
• Newsletter 10 (1 December 2014) Categories: News + Press
• Newsletter 9 (1 November 2014) Categories: News + Press
• Full mobilisation to defend the weakest in Luxembourg (28 October 2014) Categories: Contract Agents, Luxembourg, Newsletter #7 - Jul 2014, Staff Regulations Reform, z Newsletter article
• Ius est ars boni et aequi … but not in the European Commission – IMPORTANT NEWS for AST/SCs (28 October 2014) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Certification, Newsletter #7 - Jul 2014, Secretaries and clerks, Staff Categories, Staff Regulations Reform, z Newsletter article
• …… and finally some lighter moments (28 October 2014) Categories: Newsletter #7 - Jul 2014, z Newsletter article
• Cabinet appointments for common (but deserving) mortals (28 October 2014) Categories: Newsletter #7 - Jul 2014, Professional mobility, z Newsletter article
• Dirty games and money for nothing (or “NEPOTISM REDEFINED” for the more discerning) (28 October 2014) Categories: Internal Competitions, Newsletter #7 - Jul 2014, Promotions, z Newsletter article
• Commission President-Designate Juncker endorses raison d’etre of Generation 2004 (28 October 2014) Categories: Newsletter #7 - Jul 2014, Staff Categories, Staff Regulations Reform, z Newsletter article
• Report on career equivalence (28 October 2014) Categories: Newsletter #8 - Oct 2014, Professional mobility, Staff Regulations Reform, z Newsletter article
• Generation Edith Cresson: how to ensure beyond any reasonable doubt that none of the elite suffers any hunger-pains (28 October 2014) Categories: Administrators, Newsletter #8 - Oct 2014, Professional mobility, Promotions, Staff Categories, Staff Regulations Reform, z Newsletter article
• Welcome to Candyland: an in-depth look at how DG HR is attempting to circumnavigate the statute as far as the so-called “blockage of careers” is concerned (28 October 2014) Categories: Administrators, Newsletter #8 - Oct 2014, Staff Categories, Staff Regulations Reform, z Newsletter article
• Speakers’ Corner: Sprachenpolitik / in / les institutions européennes (28 October 2014) Categories: EPSO, Internal Competitions, Newsletter #9 - Nov 2014, Professional mobility, Promotions, z Newsletter article
• LUX Contract Agents: a fight against precarity in the Commission (28 October 2014) Categories: Contract Agents, Luxembourg, Newsletter #9 - Nov 2014, z Newsletter article
• Analysis: AD9 internal competitions (28 October 2014) Categories: Administrators, Internal Competitions, Newsletter #9 - Nov 2014, Temporary Agents, z Newsletter article
• Promotions 2014 (28 October 2014) Categories: Newsletter #9 - Nov 2014, Promotions, z Newsletter article
• First meeting of OSPs with our new Commissioner – Kristalina Georgieva (28 October 2014) Categories: Newsletter #9 - Nov 2014, Staff Regulations Reform, z Newsletter article
• More than a Ray of Light: a debrief on the post-2004 conference (28 October 2014) Categories: Newsletter #9 - Nov 2014, Staff Categories, Staff Regulations Reform, z Newsletter article
• …… and finally some lighter moments (28 October 2014) Categories: Newsletter #9 - Nov 2014, z Newsletter article
• Report from meeting with Vice-President Georgieva (28 October 2014) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Contract Agents, Local Agents, Local Staff Committee, Luxembourg, Newsletter #10 - Dec 2014, seconded national experts, Secretaries and clerks, Temporary Agents, z Newsletter article
• Open letter to European Council President Tusk (28 October 2014) Categories: Administrators, Assistants, Newsletter #10 - Dec 2014, Secretaries and clerks, Staff Regulations Reform, z Newsletter article
• …… and finally some lighter moments (14 October 2014) Categories: Newsletter #8 - Oct 2014, z Newsletter article
• Newsletter 8 (1 October 2014) Categories: News + Press
• Post-2004 redress: a Ray of Light??? (23 July 2014) Categories: Newsletter #7 - Jul 2014, Staff Regulations Reform, z Newsletter article
• Newsletter 7 (1 July 2014) Categories: News + Press
• Newsletter #6 (13 June 2014) Categories: Newsletter #6 - Jun 2014, z Newsletter article
• Newsletter 6 (1 June 2014) Categories: News + Press
• Newsletter #5 (8 May 2014) Categories: Newsletter #5 - May 2014, z Newsletter article
• Newsletter 5 (1 May 2014) Categories: News + Press
• The great freeze (16 March 2014) Categories: Features
• Newsletter #4 (4 March 2014) Categories: Newsletter #4 - Mar 2014, z Newsletter article
• Newsletter 4 (1 March 2014) Categories: News + Press
• Newsletter #3 (27 February 2014) Categories: Newsletter #3 - Feb 2014, z Newsletter article
• Newsletter 2 (20 February 2014) Categories: Newsletter #2 – Jan 2014, z Newsletter article
• Newsletter 3 (1 February 2014) Categories: News + Press
• Newsletter 2 (1 January 2014) Categories: News + Press
• Newsletter 1 (1 December 2013) Categories: News + Press
• LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST! Elections in Lux and the EP: Generation2004 is expanding (1 December 2013) Categories: Elections, Electoral reform, Local elections, Luxembourg, Newsletter #1 - Dec 2013, z Newsletter article
• Brussels Local Staff Committee: Generation2004’s Pascal Le Grand has been elected President (1 December 2013) Categories: Brussels, Elections, Local elections, Newsletter #1 - Dec 2013, z Newsletter article
• Future work: we need a reform that deserves its name (1 December 2013) Categories: Newsletter #1 - Dec 2013, Staff Categories, Staff Regulations Reform, z Newsletter article
• Implementing rules for the Staff Regulations: progress is a snail (1 December 2013) Categories: Newsletter #1 - Dec 2013, Staff Regulations Reform, z Newsletter article
• Internal competitions (ICs) and promotions: bad habits never die (1 December 2013) Categories: Internal Competitions, Newsletter #1 - Dec 2013, Promotions, z Newsletter article
• Outcome of the staff regulations reform: much ado about (almost) nothing (1 December 2013) Categories: Newsletter #1 - Dec 2013, Staff Regulations Reform, z Newsletter article