*Update 20.02.2024 have any of you accessed the available help for returning to work after long-term sick leave? Tell us about it!* Original article: You’ve been on sick leave and you’re not quite fit enough yet to return to work 100%, but yes, you could do at least 50% and you’re keen to get back to some semblance of normality. Note, if you’re unable to work a minimum of 50% or you’re not able to be back to your normal 100% within a maximum of 6 months, then it’s too early to start, wait a little and look at the caveat below before making a decision! Continue reading Lifetime limit on medical part-time? Yes, sometimes
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One year on, what’s happening with the 12 actions for Luxembourg?
*Update 09.10.2023 it’s estimated that 76% of those considered eligible for state aid with rent have not taken advantage of it: please don’t miss out!**Update 28.06.2023: no mention of the 12 actions in the 9 Corporate Management Board meetings since the last update (September 2022). No published output found for interinstitutional taskforce on hospital pricing (expected end 2022). We’re following up with the Local Staff Committee.*
Original article: We’ve been following the 12 actions to address the difficulties of recruiting staff in Luxembourg since they were announced 30.03.2022 Continue reading One year on, what’s happening with the 12 actions for Luxembourg?
Newsletter editorial – 15-03-2023 EEAS
Welcome to this EEAS edition of the Generation 2004 Newsletter which coincides with the ongoing elections. You have until Friday 17 March (11.00, Brussels time); please exercise your right to vote! We present ourselves in this, the year of our 10th birthday, we give you a summary of the last 12 months in the context of International Women’s day, and we outline our proposed action on the difficulties encountered with the new EPSO competitions. We also provide a two of our EEAS-specific website articles: the laissez-passer renewal, the return to the office in Kyiv and the work-life balance (or lack thereof) in delegations.
So, that’s it for this special edition, thanks to all of you for your support, ideas and feedback: please keep it coming! If there’s a topic you’d like to see us tackle, whether as an article or as an event, please get in touch!
Take care, stay healthy and enjoy reading!
*etranslation is available within the Commission*
International Women’s Day: more than just words?
*Update 24.07.2023 evidence shows UK fathers being denied the leave and flexibility ostensibly available to them.* *Update 07.03.2023 Women were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, slowing and even reversing gains, showing just how vulnerable any gains can be. Generation 2004 continues to push for international women’s day (IWD) to be about action, evaluation and noting what still needs to be done. It’s something to be done year round. What have we done in the last year? Continue reading International Women’s Day: more than just words?
Newsletter editorial – 22-02-2023
Welcome to the third Generation 2004 Newsletter of 2023. We take a good look at EPSO. We share your adventures with the EPSO online CBT tests, invite you to contact us quickly if you want to join your individual case to the joint action of the Common Front complaint and then put the EPSO transformation in a wider context, noting that they have chosen not to take the Junior Professionals Programme (JPP) as their model. We provide an estimated timeline for the ongoing internal competitions. In other topics, we present how an accusation of misconduct (whether founded or unfounded) can impact your career. We also encourage you to query mismatched JSIS reimbursements, please don’t miss out on what you’re entitled to!
We continue to ask for your assistance in our ongoing follow-up survey on utilities costs.
So, that’s it for this this edition, thanks to all of you for your support, ideas and feedback: please keep it coming!
Take care and enjoy reading!
EPSO changes and *now obsolete offer of* urgent legal assistance
Note that the article below is now obsolete. It predates the cancellation of EPSO/AST/154/22). We have not yet agreed on collective or Common Front action on the cancellation itself.
Continue reading EPSO changes and *now obsolete offer of* urgent legal assistance
Social Dialogue, or the big hypocrisy: do as I say, not as I do!
The Commission recently presented an initiative to strengthen social dialogue with actions at both national and EU level. Generation 2004 agrees that this is necessary (long overdue) and we agree also with the inspiring statements reproduced below. Unfortunately, we observe that, in spite of all these nice words and good intentions, the corresponding follow-up action appears to simply vanish when it comes to social dialogue within the Commission itself: the dialogue with the staff committee (CSC/LSCs): the statutory body elected by staff and the trade unions and staff associations (OSPs). Continue reading social dialogue, or the big hypocrisy: do as I say, not as I do!
Guilty until proven innocent… and punished forever no matter the outcome!
*Update 27.08.2024: Check out the the 2023 IDOC report.*
Original article: The Investigation and Disciplinary Office of the Commission (IDOC) is the European Commission service responsible for “ensuring compliance by (former) officials and other agents with their obligations as laid down in the staff regulations by conducting administrative inquiries and disciplinary proceedings in a fair, transparent and timely manner.”
IDOC procedures can be quite lengthy and often last several years. This is especially so in the situation where you are prosecuted in a civil court for a situation unrelated to your work but where, in parallel and linked to that civil case, you may be placed under an IDOC investigation. Until your civil court case is finished, the internal IDOC procedure will be pending (no matter how long that takes). Continue reading Guilty until proven innocent… and punished forever no matter the outcome!
The ongoing EPSO transformation
*Note that the original article below predates the cancellation of EPSO/AST/154/22). We have not yet agreed on collective or Common Front action on the cancellation itself.* Continue reading The ongoing EPSO transformation
It happened to us! The EPSO rollercoaster
*Note that the article below predates the cancellation of EPSO/AST/154/22). We have not yet agreed on collective or Common Front action on the cancellation itself. Continue reading It happened to us! The EPSO rollercoaster
