Newsletter #21 – Feb 2017

Outrage over EC approaching 1000 senior experts/senior assistants’ nominations – widening career gap and waste of precious administration budget

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*Update 07.05.2025:  We recognise that we’ve changed our view on senior experts. While we have criticised this category in the past (as below), we now see the value in not pushing staff into managing people as the only way forward and similarly to allow those already managing people to step away from that to do something different.

Recognition for Senior Experts: Addressing the systemic neglect of senior experts in promotion exercises. These colleagues are often overlooked in favour of those who manage people, contrary to staff regulations that view managerial and expert careers as equal. (Manifesto 2024)

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Growing inequalities in the Institutions

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Oxfam, the well-known international confederation of charitable organizations has recently published its annual report on social inequalities. What about inequalities in the EU institutions? Since the infamous Kinnock reform of 2004, inequalities have greatly increased in the EU civil service. Before the Kinnock reform, careers of non-management staff were limited to the equivalent of AD12.

For a decade, between 2004 and 2013, this upper limit became AD14. The 2014 staff regulations re-introduced the AD12 cap, but in the meantime, more than 2000 ADs had managed to sneak in to the AD13 grade and another 500 to the AD14 grade, most of them without taking managerial responsibilities. Moreover, the 2014 Staff Regulations did not put an end to what could be perceived as an overly generous scheme: Continue reading Growing inequalities in the Institutions →