Art. 90 CC - Act now!
Why?
Because, according to our investigations, the new Correction Coefficient does not correspond to the purchasing parity between Ispra and Brussels
Why now?
Because an art. 90 must be presented within 3 months from the date of the publication of the decision against which the complaint is lodged. Even if most probably even the February payslip will be considered as the "official" application of the decision, the original decision was taken by the Council on 20th of December 2010 and published in the Official Journal on 22nd of December 2010. Furthermore, all staff received on 23rd of December 2010 an email from PMO notifying the introduction of the new Correction Coefficient, with a link to the detailed table.
Having worked hard on this art 90 dossier, we are now ready with our argumentations and we don’t want to take any risk of non admissibility of our complaint because of a missed deadline.
What are the fundamental arguments of our complaint?
We have based our arguments on a very strong technical analysis, contesting Eurostat data on Energy and Health costs. In addition to a detailed analysis carried out by us on gas and electricity bills, we have also purchased statistically relevant data for Italy and Belgium
We have then compared the parities set by the Commission for our sickness insurance reimbursements scheme with the “Health” heading of our CC, and also in this case we are able to demonstrate that a big contradiction exists between these two different sets of parities both provided by the same European Commission!
We are now no longer just asking for information or data, but WE ARE A STEP FURTHER as we contest tangible contradictory elements. We don't ask to sign a blank cheque but to ACT NOW, and JOIN OUR ART.90
We would have preferred a constructive and brotherly collaboration among all Trade Unions but, sadly enough, some people driven by other motivations abuse every single dossier for their quite aggressive propaganda campaign trying to bring others into discredit, rather than collaborating in a joint approach to defend staff. In the meantime the Ispra Site Trade Union Majority - in close collaboration with the Local Staff Committee (CLP) - will continue to be the real defender of the interests of all staff. We do understand that you are not interested in a useless war between Trade Unions, and we agree with you that this should stop.
Thank you all for your support and collaboration.
Your R&D Team
Formal complaint (art.90) against correction coefficient Varese
Our article 90 template will be available to all staff for individual use. This decision was taken by the R&D executive board and the Committee, based on an in-depth study carried out over a significant period. Since the CC is determined by the so called "method", the only way to make an impact is by a "technical" approach rather than a political one. On top of that, there is currently no political support in the member states for the level of our remunerations. The article 90 procedure is also a necessary step before we can go to court.
We have identified major discrepancies between the basis Eurostat used for calculating the CC on the one hand and the real-life situation on the other, and we are convinced that we can prove that the correction coefficient for Varese should be higher. Our lawyer will adapt our draft text to the proper legal wording in the coming days.
We expect to inform all staff at the beginning of next week about the possibility to launch an art.90. and the template will then be made available. We believe that everybody should join, in order to achieve the best possible result.
The deadline to lodge the art. 90 is 20 March 2011.
For further information please write to jrc-rd-cc@ec.europa.eu
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