Welcome to the Easter edition of the Generation 2004 Newsletter. Today we take a close look at the Junior Professionals Programme: what are its objectives and has it reached them? We update you on the new home leave decision 2022, an important factor for colleagues who work really far from home. If you are among the many colleagues who want to help Ukrainian refugees, you will be happy to learn that DG HR has reacted to our request that more days of volunteering work should be recognized for this.
If you are interested in the internal competitions, you must not miss our latest information on it. And finally, we present you a summary of the many changes introduced by the new decision on working time and hybrid working.
We hope that you enjoy this edition and we wish you a happy and safe Easter. If you think that we have missed anything important, please get in touch!
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We are in April and DG HR has not yet provided competition planning (provisional or otherwise). We do not think that this will change any time soon. Even if the planning was to become available now, the ongoing exclusion of certain staff categories (16 000 potentially eligible staff) from internal competitions requires action and the most recent example of this is the internal competition published at the end of the last year (
The new home leave decision 2022[1] will provide more days of leave to official, temporary agent and contract agent colleagues who are employed 2001km or more away from their official place of origin[2]. Generation 2004 thinks that this decision will have a far from solid impact on the general purpose of having a good work-life balance and the time to connect with friends and family, not to forget all the inevitable administrative work one needs to do when back in the home country. 
*Update 15.01.2025, Here’s our December note on 