Welcome to the ninth edition of  Generation 2004 newsletter for 2024. This edition highlights several key updates, including the defense of our fundamental rights, the judgement on the place of origin, the EU unemployment insurance scheme, mobility of contract agents, and internal and EPSO competition new offers.

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Welcome to the eighth edition 2024 of Generation 2004 Newsletter! In this issue, discover our checklist & tips for your holidays and the new training offer for the ongoing EPSO competitions. Also find updates on Contract Agents (CA) 3A’s unemployment insurance payment, fairer pension contributions for contract (CA) and temporary (TA) agents, and the 7-year rule for Contract Agents. Continue reading Newsletter editorial – 16-07-2024 →

Welcome to the seventh edition of the Generation 2004 newsletter for 2024! In this issue, you’ll find crucial updates about urgent info regarding Luxembourg ING bank accounts.  We also provide you with guidance on how to appeal non-promotion/reclassification decisions.  You will also learn to identify fake interviews.  We invite you to join us for a conference on city violence protection. Furthermore, don’t miss the reply from DG TAXUD to our note on the alarming decline in Staff Well-Being and our article on personal data, private phone usage, and standby duty, especially in Delegations. ‘Enjoy’ a new episode of the Evere European School saga.  Finally, we’d love your feedback on the Career Days organised by DG HR.  That’s it for this edition.  Reach out if we can assist you!

Welcome to the sixth edition of the Generation 2004 newsletter for 2024! In this edition, you will read some news about European Schools issues and solutions. We also draw your attention to the problematic of transferring unused holiday to the next year. Furthermore, we provide essential dos and don’ts for those juggling a second job..  Additionally, we present the latest insights from the Court of Justice’s ruling on travel allowances and place of origin.  To finish on a positive touch, we share another PMO success story..  So, that’s it for this time.  Enjoy the reading and get in touch if you believe we can help!

Welcome to the fifth edition of the Generation 2004 newsletter for 2024! In this edition,  we express our concern on Local agents and the need to adapt their salaries. We are happy to share one positive story from the many stories we received about our PMO colleagues. Moreover, stay informed with update on the issue of the use of your personal phones for business continuity purposes.  Don’t miss our state of play on the twelve actions for Luxembourg and the learning opportunities on internal competitions oral test. Finally, you will read clarifications on the intermediate salary update and on the AD5 internal competition and our concern regarding the well-being of colleagues in TAXUD as per the HR Survey 2023.  So, that’s all for now.  Enjoy the reading and get in touch if you believe we can help!

Welcome to the fourth edition of the Generation 2004 newsletter for 2024! In this edition, we celebrate the creative spirit of our community, as Generation 2004 proudly awarded three colleagues for their ‘Coolest Picture‘ contest and are happy that due to our efforts, HR will raise quotas for Contractual agents (3a) reclassification. Moreover, we delve into the need for reform of the European School education system.  Also read about transition from a culture of trust to a control-oriented one and updates on electric vehicles.  Finally, check the response from DG HR to our note on the cancellation of funds for Own Initiative Training (OIT) and find challenges to break the daily routine.  So, that’s it for this time.  Enjoy the reading and get in touch if you believe we can help!

We wish you all a (belated) international women’s day: we firmly believe equality is something to be done year round, not just 8th March. What have we done in the last year? and Is it a man’s world? We consider too how more flexible working benefits everyone. Linking with flexibility, there are 3 public holidays you can choose to work and get the day back. For Brussels-based colleagues we outline the pitfalls of reimbursements via mobility.net. From limited reimbursements to non-existent reimbursements: own-initiative training (OIT) has been effectively defunded: have a look. In other news, Generation 2004 responds to the confirmation that the European Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 infringes data protection law and we expand on the many outstanding concerns related to fingerprint building access. We ask for your help on behalf of a volunteer group  working in Ukraine, we speak up on behalf of colleagues having technical difficulties with EPSO and internal competitions and show what is being done with Member States taking decades to comply with pension transfers-in.  So, that’s it for this time.

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We wish you a good start to the new year and welcome you to the first edition of the Generation 2004 newsletter for 2024. The year starts, as always, with the self-evaluation and we are on hand to help. This coincides with the publication of the list of those to be interviewed in the next stage of the 2023/2024 Certification exercise: here’s how to appeal if your name is not on that list and an overview of the normal timeline for the Certification. Continuing on the theme of taking action and, as far as possible,  getting the year off to a good start, we’d like to hear your positive PMO stories. This could also be a good moment to ask your pension-transfer-out questions or to book training for the certification interview. We ask you to sign the European Parliament Contract Agent petition: please don’t let it disappear!  We also present an overview of how to proceed when a JSIS reimbursement does not go as planned: what needs to happen and when?

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Welcome to the (lucky?) thirteenth and final edition of the Generation 2004 newsletter for 2023. Where did 2023 go? We are already looking to the future with  with the 2024 edition of our annual conference on the self evaluation, our offer of training on certification and competitions and our session on doing the transfer-out of pension rights. We give you the preliminary results of our survey on career potential and some guidance on appealing non-inclusion in the 2023/24 certification exercise. Our photo competition on workspace temperatures ‘Operation Hiver‘ is ongoing: send us your pics! On a more serious note, we ask how the disconnection bandwidth corresponds with the use of work group apps on private mobiles and we outline the update to some JSIS ceilings.

That’s it now for 2023!

We wish you a very merry Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year!

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