Post-reform Equal Pay Day

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The Post-reform Equal Pay Day is inspired by the Equal Pay Day that marks the gender pay gap (http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-190_en.htm).

Post-reform Equal Pay Day is a reminder of the unequal pay conditions affecting everyone who joined the European Institutions after the Kinnock Reform of 1 May 2004. The latest reform that took effect on 1 January 2014 has only made matters worse by introducing complications in the career structure, and by lowering the entry salary once again; more Continue reading Post-reform Equal Pay Day →

Newsletter #15 February 2016

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G2004 Newsletter #15 2016
• Build a new management culture – don’t stop half way!
• Turning the social dialogue upside down
• Promotions: Article 90 template available to all staff
• Essentials about internal competitions

Newsletter #14 December 2015

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G2004 Newsletter #14 2015 Christmas edition
• Contract Agents’ saga: social dialogue, revision of DGEs, internal competitions and other tales
• Promotion system – Promotions: To complain or not to complain?
• Speakers’ corner – “OPEN SPACE” or how to sell a bad idea to good people
• Christmas hopes and wishes: A new future for the old building
• In the spotlight: an alternative route for legal redress

Newsletter #13 November 2015

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G2004 Newsletter #13 2015
• New Chair elected of the Brussels Local Staff Committee
• What is new for Contract Agents joining the Commission? The new proposals in snapshot
• Another certification exercise – Another lost opportunity for Post2004 ASTs
• Generation 2004 Communication on Promotions
• Luxembourg: Staff representation electoral rules
• VP Georgieva met staff representation in Luxembourg
• Eckehard Rosenbaum elected as the new Chair of Generation 2004
• Message from the new Chair

The dark side of new “General Implementing Provisions for Contract Agents”

Contract Agents

On 8th July, DG HR has presented the draft of the new General Implementing Provisions (GIP) For Contract Agents (CAs)[1] to DGs and staff representatives, and on 10th September OSPs have been convoked to a social dialogue meeting to express opinions on it.

Even if this decision is meant to clarify and to implement a position already taken by the EC (cfr. Commission Decision 2011), the feedback DG HR received was almost in unison from all OSPs: a text lacking of transparency and clarity, very hard to understand for non-lawyers (and particularly for non-FR speaking) and still missing a concrete policy for CAs. Continue reading The dark side of new “General Implementing Provisions for Contract Agents” →

The devil takes the hindmost

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MAY 2014 – “The devil takes the hindmost” – Interview with MEP Ingeborg Grässle (IG), Member of the EP’s Budgetary Control Committee: How high-grade officials put the whole burden of cuts on the lower grades

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G2004: Dr. Grässle, you have made a name for yourself as a tireless and hard-working campaigner against mismanagement and for more accountability in the EU institutions. What do you think of the changes brought about by the recent (2014) staff reform? Does it address the public criticism of benefits and privileges of (certain) EU civil servants? Continue reading The devil takes the hindmost →