Dear colleagues, irrespective of your category, function group and grade, you are welcome to join the recently created AST/SC Forum in Teams!
What is the AST/SC Forum?
This is a truly open democratic forum where all staff members – not only secretaries and clerks (AST/SCs) – can freely and without any censorship exchange different views and ideas. Continue reading The AST/SC Forum – please join us!
*update 18.07.2022: anyone who wishes to protest against any internal competition (e.g. COM/AST4/2022 (AST4)) can follow the same process as that set out below. Apply then appeal (as below) and then get in touch with us.*
The non-eligibility decision for COM/AD/02/21 (AD5) was sent out on 25.01.2022, please check your EPSO account.
For example, this is the decision that a member of Generation 2004 has received:
Continue reading Update: internal competition COM/AD/02/21 (AD5) – Art. 90(2) complaint
*Update 27.0302025: Under certain circumstanaces you can work elsewhere while in receipt of an invalidity allowance: ‘Persons in receipt of an invalidity allowance may not engage in gainful employment without the prior authorisation of the Appointing Authority. Any income from such gainful employment which, in combination with the invalidity allowance, exceeds the final Continue reading Would you like to undertake other activities outside your current job in the Commission?
Welcome to the second Generation 2004 Newsletter of 2022 and to the end of the third week back at work for most of us. We invite you to participate in our only-just-published survey on your utility bills and to read our corresponding article on the additional costs of working from home, this time in the context of the rising energy prices. We have an event planned for next week (27.01.2022), where you can discuss all and everything related to this topic, bring your bills! Tell us how the costs are affecting you!
To those of you writing your self-assessment, we are still here to help! And to those of you preparing for the dialogue part of the process, here are some tips.
We have a further event organised on the ongoing move to an open-plan, hot-desking set-up (03.02.2022): while this may not seem to be particularly relevant while the vast majority of us continue to work from home, this process continues unchanged and this may well be the set-up that many of us will go back to.
We remind you that you have until 31.01.2022 to request the transfer of annual leave remaining from 2021: please don’t lose days if you can avoid it!
A big thank you to those of you who got in touch about the article on the increase in step to give us a concrete example of how Contract Agents might see no additional salary even after several steps (we added the example to the article).
So, that’s it for this second edition, thanks to all of you for your support, ideas and feedback: please keep it coming!
Take care, stay healthy and enjoy reading!
*25.01.2021Rejection letters are out, please let us know whether you took action and we can coordinate on the next steps*
Thanks to all of you who answered our December call to action in response to yet another very discriminatory internal competition (COM/AD/02/21 (AD5)) which excludes over 16 000 potentially eligible candidates. Yes, we also noticed that the ‘talent screener’ was simply a request for permission and your staff number. We have a Microsoft Teams group on this topic, come and join the discussion! Continue reading Update 25.01.2022: internal competition COM/AD/02/21 (AD5) – what’s next?
How much does the move to hot-desking (‘dynamic’) and open-plan Offices matter with the move to hybrid working? It will only be 40% presence in any given week, you can tolerate 2 days, right? And we’re not going back to the office just yet, so it’s not a worry for the moment! Regardless, the move to hot-desking and open-plan offices for thousands of staff continues apace during a pandemic that is showing no sign of slowing. Have you considered what that entails? Continue reading It’s only for 2 days a week! hot-desking and buildings
*Update 09.10.2023 please participate in the Commission survey on the environmental impact of teleworking: deadline 11.10.2023. These emmissions must also be counted in greening the Commission!**Update November 2022, we have republished this survey in order to make a comparison, please participate!* *Update March 2022: 1193 colleagues responded to our additional teleworking costs survey: only 2.85% saw no utility-bill increase. With 27% of respondents seeing their monthly bills increase by a total of 51-100 EUR.* Continue reading The hidden costs of teleworking – and now energy prices!
A very happy and healthy new year to you all and welcome to the first Generation 2004 Newsletter of 2022! Thanks to all of you who took the time and the energy to participate in our December call to action on the internal competition: we have an update for you on a recent amendment. We appreciate that this is a busy moment for you all at the start of another out-of-the-ordinary year. Between getting back into the swing of things, writing your self- assessment and navigating the promotion/reclassification process, sometimes there’s not much time left over to ensure that you’re not missing out on what is due to you. Nevertheless, please do take a moment to check your annual leave remaining from 2021 and the options open to you. Annual leave days are precious, please don’t lose them! We’d also like to know about any sickness/leave difficulties you’ve had (if and when you find the time, there’s no rush! For those of you who have moved up a step we have a look at how and whether this affects your take-home pay: unfortunately for many staff it doesn’t.
So, that’s it for this first edition, thanks to all of you for your support, ideas and feedback: please keep it coming!
Take care, stay healthy and enjoy reading!
Here is the presentation(note that the timetable for reclassification is slightly different) and here is the recording. To access you must be connected to ECAS, and some browsers work better than others. If you have any difficulties, contact us and we’ll send the presentation to you.)
If you expect to be promoted/reclassified in 2022 or even just want to understand what happens behind the scenes between the self-assessment and the publication of the draft lists in June, this is the event for you: we will shed some light on the mystery! This builds on our recent presentation on the self-assessment where we offered one-to-one assistance. Continue reading How to increase your chances to get a promotion/reclassification in 2022?
*In 2023 it should no longer be necessary to request the transfer of days where it is a right thanks to our initiative [1].*
For those of you with surplus days of annual leave: check out the viable reasons for requesting that the days (in addition to the standard 12 days) be added to your 2022 quota: either for requirements of the service or for health reasons. Even if you do not fall into one of the categories listed, please discuss with your line manager rather than just assume the days are lost. Continue reading More than 12 days of annual leave remaining from last year?
