*Update 24.02.2025, Brussels staff, check the electoral roll: if your name is on there then you can vote!*
Original article: On 18 February 2025, Generation 2004 and other Trade Unions, called for a political concertation[1] with Commissioner SERAFIN (Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration) on the draft decision amending Decision C(2013) 9049 on policies for the engagement and use of temporary staff[2].
Continue reading Why is Generation 2004 calling for a political concertation?
*Update 19.02.2025: ‘By default, all [internal] competitions will be cross-category.’ (Stay tuned: A new approach for internal competitions) This is excellent news and should now put the Commission on an even footing with the Parliament and other EU institutions. We hope that this inclusion is genuine and that the competitions are not otherwise skewed to reduce participation.* Continue reading ASTs and AST/SCs: promised change: conference
***Update: You can find the recording and the presentation file here.****
Generation 2004 invites you to our one hour on-line lunchtime conference dedicated to the ongoing review of the temporary staff decision and on potential side benefits to contractual agents.
The slides and presentation will be made available here on this page after the event.
*Update 05.02.2025: here is the recording of the conference. *Update 04.02.2025 we’ve added to the list of JSIS questions below and uploaded the presentation. Thanks to the colleague who pointed out that there is now a PMO optician form which is more recent than our draft optician letter and easier to do, since you’re not having to ask the optician to print anything. *
Original article: The Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme (JSIS) of the European Union (also RCAM [Régime Commun d’Assurance Maladie]) is not the most user-friendly of systems and yet it’s all we have, for everything health-related whether it’s routine, an accident or an illness. It’s easy to miss out on something you’re entitled to simply because you didn’t know about it and now the deadline has passed. Generation 2004 is here to present the JSIS and the common pitfalls. Continue reading Navigating the JSIS: conference
*Update 04.06.2025: Watch out for your notification of entitlement to the new housing allowance via sysper. If you have received nothing by 13.06.2025, check that your place of employment, grade, civil status and place of residence as recorded in Sysper are correct. The contact for all questions is the Staff Center. There are also 2 EU Learn – Information session on housing allowance available
*Update 07.11.2025, thanks to the almost 130 colleagues who attended o our event! We have updated the FAQs with your questions! Here’s the presentation. For the guest speaker presentation please click here to request it. Also, please check out EULearn pension training.*
*Update 06.11.2025 our intention is for this list to be searchable, hence the repetition of some information. We link also to a recent PMO presentation on pensions.*
Original article: To supplement our frequently asked questions (FAQs) on pension transfers, we add this FAQ for all of the other questions we receive on pensions in general. Continue reading General pension FAQs
