We are currently seeing unprecedented measures in Europe to fight Covid-19. However, we are missing a true European response; instead, each Member State is doing its own thing, with little coordination. Continue reading United against Covid-19 – please sign and share the petition
Free (public) transport in Luxembourg: should I be bothered?
*Update 24.10.2024 We’re aware of OIB now accepting cross-border commuter passes reimbursement requests via myPMO, but Luxembourg-based colleagues are to use the same method as before (instructions here).*
*Update 14.10.2024 Luxembourg-based colleagues, the maximum reimbursement (‘ceiling’) for cross-border commuter passes has been doubled to €500 from 01.10.2024.* Continue reading Free (public) transport in Luxembourg: should I be bothered?
Cycling allowance
*Update 28.10.2024: the Commission proposes to pay Brussels-based colleagues who cycle €100 per year as part of its green commuting plan. We asked about provision for other sites, but the response was negative.*
Original article: EASME , one the Commission’s Executive agencies has started offering its staff a financial contribution for cycling to work. Congratulations to the agency and its enlightened director! Continue reading Cycling allowance
Current exceptional guidelines on telework
The Commission has sent the vast amount of colleagues into telework, following the ‘guidelines on teleworking in commission departments during the Covid-19 pandemic’. In this article, we explain these guidelines – however, please do invest the time to read the guidelines yourself! We also publish here the Q&A session of the social dialogue meeting where this document was discussed with unions and staff associations. Continue reading Current exceptional guidelines on telework
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Please pay attention and act responsibly!
- Commission site with more information on Covid – 19
- Generation2004 Practical Tips
- The World Health Organisation site
- The Myth busters site (by WHO) on Covid -19.
- United against Covid
- Families at the time of coronavirus
- Current exceptional guidelines on telework
- How to cope with work, handle challenges at home while maintaining good health?
Stay strong !!!
Let’s join the European march for Future on Friday 6 March!
Everyone counts to make our voice loud and clear to encourage our leaders to take bold steps in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss, as they are finalising the Climate Law, negotiating the next MFF and so much more!
You may know it already, Greta Thumberg, accompanied by Anuna De Wever and Adélaïde Charlier, of Youth for Climate, will lead the march! Continue reading Let’s join the European march for Future on Friday 6 March!
EU Staff4Climate Lunchtime Conference
Rhetoric to Reality: the role of the EU in delivering on the Paris commitments
EUStaff4Climate is organising an interesting lunchtime conference on Thursday 20th of February 2020, at 12.00 in Room Alcide de Gasperi, CHARL. From Rhetoric to Reality: the role of the EU in delivering on the Paris commitments, by Prof Kevin Anderson, Professor of Energy and Climate Change, Manchester University.
Latest NEWS: change of venue!!!
PLB room 1.4 (Philippe Le Bon)
You can register via EUlearn
Crocodile tears at the Court of the Queen of Hearts
When Cersei Lannister, the evil queen of plotting and scheming in the popular Games of Thrones franchise, was slapped in the face by her husband Robert Baratheon, King of the Iron Throne, she uttered the defiant words “I shall wear this as a badge of honour.” She later exacted her revenge on him through a cunning plan, leading to his premature death. Continue reading Crocodile tears at the Court of the Queen of Hearts
Is Staff Representation a Fake?
A reasoned (and partly smiling) opinion on a recent conference organised by the local section Brussels of the Commission Staff Committee
On 17 October 2019, under the trendy and self-explanatory (or Freudian?) title “#staffrepresentation&you” (of course, one thing are staff representatives (i.e. the Elected), another is you (i.e. the mere Staff), the Chair of the local section Brussels of the Commission Staff Committee pushed the organisation of a 3 hours lunchtime debate. The event enjoyed the presence of the DG HR’s Director responsible for social dialogue, Mr. Moricca and these were the debated questions: Continue reading Is Staff Representation a Fake?
Generation 2004 welcomes Commissioner Hahn
With the start of the Ursula von der Leyen Commission on December 1st 2019, Johannes HAHN also took up his appointment as the new Commissioner for Budget and Administration. This appointment concerns staff enormously since he is in charge of Administration, which includes HR policy.
On 16 January, Generation 2004 sent a welcome letter (EN version) to Mr. Hahn. In this letter, we not only welcomed the Commissioner but we have also raised some of the most important aspects of our policies as a staff representation organisation:
- the principle of equal pay for equal work at the same place and;
- the heavy decline of the conditions of employment and the consequent increase of the precariat for some categories of staff.
We closed the letter by offering Commissioner HAHN to constructively and positively work with him on these and other staff related matters.
