The next staff elections for the Brussels local staff committee will take place from 24-26 October 2018. Generation 2004 has, for the third time, set up a very gender, nationality and staff category balanced list of 54 motivated candidates (27 pairs) for the Brussels staff elections.

Staff elections in the EU Delegations will also take place shortly after: from 5-9 November 2018. It will be the first time in history that Generation 2004 sets up a list and run in the “Outside the Union” elections though, and we are very excited about taking this step.

Those who will be elected in both elections will represent the interests of staff recruited since 2004 and 2014 in various committees and working groups in the next 3 years. Continue reading Staff elections in Brussels and outside the Union 2018 →

Mid September DG HR called the trade unions for a “social dialogue” on the planned internal competitions. We did not have the impression that we attended a dialogue but rather an info session about DG HR’s plan to offer a platform for Cabinet members to find an easy way through an internal competition to become officials. This has unfortunately become a sad tradition that comes by every 5 years shortly before the end of each mandate of the Commission.

HR presented us the “biggest set of internal competitions the Commission ever published”. The presentation was only made available to the representatives of Union Syndical Luxembourg, who have distributed it to all staff in Luxembourg.

The following competitions will be open to officials, temporary agents but also Contract Agents: AST/SC2, AST 2 and AD 6. (Applications to AD6 will be restricted to FG IV.)

An AST 4 competition will be open to AST temporary agents and officials.

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In the framework of the upcoming elections you will be bombarded with e-mails by many Trade Unions (TU). Some of them have already started to take credit for the achievements of the Local Staff Committee Brussels (see our Fact checking box on the first page).

In a recent article we highlighted the reality of the engagement of other TUs to allow the Local Staff Committee (LSC) Brussels to operate smoothly… Out of 4.5 allocated secondments, 4 were assured by Generation 2004. For details on actual LSC meetings’ attendance, you may also check the table of presences of elected members during the last 3 years (check page 48). We trust this may help you make up your mind before pushing the voting button. Continue reading Now all want to own the Local Staff Committee success story →

Salaries of Local Agents in EU delegations are paid either in euros or in the local currency. The decision as to which currency is used is not always fully transparent and can lead to serious problems. In Turkey, for instance, the situation of Local Agents has become very difficult because of the massive drop in the Turkish Lira/Euro exchange rate in the past few months:

Continue reading Salaries paid in currencies other than Euros in Delegations →