Newsletter-2025-06-16

Newsletter editorial – 16-06-2025

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Welcome to our sixth Newsletter edition. In this edition, we explore a diverse range of topics. Have a look at the recording of our conference regarding the promotion appeals and our training offer for the EPSO Lawyer-Linguists revisers competition.  Additionally, we address concerns about child allowance and scholarship and job mobility for Contract Agent 3a staff in Offices.  Last but not least, read the update on “it’s al about our rights!

That’s all for now!

Enjoy the reading and get in touch if you believe we can help!

Child Allowance and Scholarships – When the Commission gets tangled up in its own bureaucracy 

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Staff members with dependent children receive a household allowance, a dependent child allowance and, under certain conditions, an education allowance. For adult children between the ages of 18 and 26, the continued payment of these allowances and further tax reductions are subject to the adult child receiving educational or vocational training. Continue reading Child Allowance and Scholarships – When the Commission gets tangled up in its own bureaucracy  →

Job Mobility for Contract Agent 3a Staff in Offices: From Better Visibility to Real Opportunities

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Assessing the current situation. Despite existing frameworks for job mobility (as discussed in a previous article), the experience of Contract Agents (CA) under Article 3a of CEOS, particularly those working in the Commission’s Offices[*], reveals persistent structural shortcomings.
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UPDATE: It’s all about our rights!

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Update as of  12.05.2025 May 2025: some of you asked me for un updates for the case. A very good idea! The case T-108/24 (about the disciplinary sanction and the disciplinary procedure) was subject of a public hearing at the Tribunal  on 6.05.2025.
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Conference: 12.06.2025 reclassification and promotion appeals, Generation 2004 is here to help

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***UPDATE: You can find the link to the recording and to the presentation here.***

The 2025 draft reclassification and promotion lists will be published in Sysper on Thursday 12 June.  There are now very limited options to influence whether your name is on the final lists when they are published mid-November. We have a lunchtime event planned to explain both what happens next and what those limited options are that are available to you if you find that your name is not on that list (and you believe that it should be). Please prepare for the event and start making notes for a potential appeal. Continue reading Conference: 12.06.2025 reclassification and promotion appeals, Generation 2004 is here to help →

Training offer: EPSO/AD/423/25 – Lawyer-linguists/legal revisers (AD 7) competitions

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*Update 10.09.2025, this EPSO competition is now closed to new applications.* Generation 2004, in collaboration with Yasemos Europeos, is happy to offer you online training in English for EPSO/AD/423/25 – Lawyer-linguists/legal revisers (AD 7) competitions with a special discount rate for our members ONLY. Continue reading Training offer: EPSO/AD/423/25 – Lawyer-linguists/legal revisers (AD 7) competitions →