The conference about Pensions was organised by Generation 2004 on 20 February 2018. It consisted in a detailed presentation and answering many questions from the audience. This lunch-time conference is the third large public event organised by Generation 2004 after the “Dos & Don’ts of Self-appraisal & Appeals Conference” organised in January 2018.
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The agenda was as follows:
- Pension Liability
- Pensions and Heading V of the EU budget
- Transfers of pension rights
- Contract Agents 3b and Temporary Agents
The lunch-time conference brought together a large number of attendees in Brussels and several hundred participants from many sites through web-streaming.
This conference was repeated in Ispra on 1 March 2018 by Pascal Le Grand himself with video connection with Geel, Seville and Karlsruhe.
If you have missed the conference, it’s not too late as it was recorded and available here [2]. You can also access the presentation here. [3]
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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 [8]: 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 [9] (here is the cover e-mail [10]).
As a background you can see the report of the Commission to the Council regarding the recruitment of the contract agents in 2010 [11] (in French, COM(2011)802 final 23.11.2011).
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