Generation 2004 recently welcomed the new Director General in charge of HR matters [1], Gertrud INGESTAD. The new DG started her functions at a period of severe crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In our welcome letter we raised a number of most pressing practical issues and problems relating to the COVID-19 protection measures. While we fully endorse these measures, we know that certain elements can still be improved. We have collected various examples of your many recent difficulties with our new working arrangements like:
- contract extensions,
- parents (schooling and childcare),
- training,
- remote management,
- teleworking rules flexibility and medical claims.
We hope that we can meet Ms INGESTAD as soon as possible to urgently discuss (via videoconference) the issues we have raised on your behalf in order to reduce the burden on all of us who help to keep the EU running and to facilitate as much as possible our life and work. But also on the many other issues faced by our generation of the post 2004 staff regulations reform.
Please remember that we are here for you in these difficult times. So, do not hesitate if you would like to share your challenges with us [2].
toolTips('.classtoolTips19','Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union (\'Staff Regulations [3] (SR)\') are rules stating:
• fundamental conditions of service
• basic rights, duties and obligations of staff.
The SR have been reformed x 2 (so far):
• 2004 (Kinnock White paper)
• 2014 (Regulation 1023/2013 [4])
For a summary of stated intentions and real outcomes of those two reforms check out: European Court of Auditors, 2019, Special report no 15/2019 [5]: Implementation of the 2014 staff reform package at the Commission – Big savings but not without consequences for staff
'); toolTips('.classtoolTips47','Trade union or staff association (OSP) [Organisation syndicale et professionnelle]');