Welcome to the eighth edition 2024 of Generation 2004 Newsletter! In this issue, discover our checklist & tips for your holidays and the new training offer for the ongoing EPSO competitions. Also find updates on Contract Agents (CA) 3A’s unemployment insurance payment, fairer pension contributions for contract (CA) and temporary (TA) agents, and the 7-year rule for Contract Agents.
We also share the state of play on the automatic declarations of Belgian Third-party allowances announced by PMO and we cover interpreters’ issues. Additionally, we provide the latest information on the housing allowance in Luxembourg and its current status. We aim to bring more clarity about the changes to the place of origin and travel allowance. Furthermore, we request the full recognition of staff involvement in activities in the interest of the Institution. We address as well the flexibility offered by Third-party option in Mobility.netLastly and ask what happened to “Have your say”. Last but not least , read the Ombudsman decision on EPSO competitions maladministration and don’t miss the Belgian local elections deadline on July 31st. That’s it for this edition. Stay tuned for more and reach out if we can assist you!
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As the use of contract staff becomes increasingly common, there has been a corresponding increase in the diversity of status and pay of the Commission’s workforce. For example, GFIV contract staff meeting the same minimum recruitment requirements (education and experience) as junior administrators may earn 28 % less. (European Court of Auditors, 2019, Special report no 15/2019 [5]: Implementation of the 2014 staff reform package at the Commission – Big savings but not without consequences for staff, point 61, page 34)
We have a working group dedicated to the dossier, and in December 2012 we addressed the first of many letters (\'notes\') about Contract Agents to Human Resources of all Institutions and agencies [6] (here is the cover e-mail [7]).
As a background you can see the report of the Commission to the Council regarding the recruitment of the contract agents in 2010 [8] (in French, COM(2011)802 final 23.11.2011).
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