Coordinated Action against the 2014 Staff Regulations
To defend staff to the best of our ability, the trade unions and staff associations of all institutions have decided to join forces for the lodging of appeals. That will enable us to ensure that each appeal covers all the pleas in law and arguments used in the various complaints.
By acting together, we will also show the Court of Justice that it is not just a few isolated colleagues, but all staff of all institutions who are up in arms against the illegalities of the new Staff Regulations and the disdain that the co-legislator has shown for staff’s acquired rights.
For most appeals it will not be necessary for everybody who made a complaint to appeal. We will make an appeal in each case for a certain number of representative cases.
To allow us to choose those cases, we ask all those who made a complaint to send a message to the following email address set up for all trade unions and staff associations for the purpose of managing the appeals (OSP.Recours2014@gmail.com) indicating the complaints that you introduced and giving a short summary of your situation (for example, for travelling time and annual travel costs, indicate your place of origin, whether you return there often, your family situation, what you received previously and your function group, or contract type, and grade).
Warning: for the appeal for those who have lost their right to travelling time and to the annual payment of travel costs (a total loss, not a reduction in the amount paid), the timing is very tight: the appeals have to be lodged before the end of August.
Parking for senior management: there is no right way to do a wrong thing...
It seems that this provision was established following a disputable addition to regulations proposed by the Road Safety Committee, after their submission to the Ispra site Director last year. This proposal, initially, excluded explicitly any special car parking place other than those for people with reduced mobility, for service cars and for loading/unloading purposes.
R&D has received some interesting and ironic reactions from colleagues, expressing all their disbelief and also frustration about the sudden appearance of these notices without any explanation. R&D would like to share some of these comments, because they show the extent of the gap between JRC Staff and its hierarchy:
• Some colleagues asked ironically to establish a hierarchy of parking privileges reflecting functions - by differentiating parking for Senior, Middle and even Lower management (Project Leaders) - or even banning “external staff vehicles” from the site.
• Another leitmotif was the suggestion of establishing further Senior Management privileges, which communicate effectively the (auto referential) importance of our senior hierarchy. The lengthy list includes dedicated restrooms, priority site entrance, reserved buttons for better coffee at the vending machines etc. One colleague was even concerned about the apparent lack of parking places for Senior Management Service Bicycles (gold-plated of course) - we love this one!
• There was also some creativity in inventing possible sanctions for anyone who dares to occupy a “SM-Parking place”, most of them being copied from medieval books on torture…
Hey, Senior Managers, just to make sure that you understand, this was meant to be light-hearted fun!!! But let’s stop with irony here.
R&D (see our message of November 2013) is seriously concerned about this trend, that demonstrates the incapacity of our Senior Management to keep staff motivation high, especially when staff has been negatively affected by the new Staff Regulations.
In our opinion, this behavior is contrasting with the encouraging signals received from our new Director General, and it undermines his "One JRC, One Team" declared approach.
Moreover it appears that the aforementioned rules have been established behind closed doors, without a clear and transparent communication to staff (the Road regulations published on Ispranet make no reference): shyness or symptom of embarrassment?
We believe that this decision, even if procedurally correct, represents an unfortunate lapse of style. In fact, the subliminal message sent to staff is that Senior Management is taking its privileges too seriously (apparently by giving a higher priority to their parking needs than to those of colleagues with reduced mobility, for example). Not to mention the recently announced "action plan" for bdgs. 100 & 101 (c.f. "For car parking the buildings policy (decided in consultation with the directors of the institutes) is to use existing spaces also not in the immediate vicinity of the buildings…") – it’s a pity that this action plan has now been "carjacked".
We invite Senior Managers to set an example and renounce their reserved car parking place. We will be pleased to inform staff of any individual decision in this sense.
R&D will continue to monitor and expose any indiscriminate proliferation of privileges. One JRC, one Team… hopefully!
Action plan buildings 100&101
A series of remediative measure is going to be put into place at end of the year.
Annual Travel Allowance: new art. 90
During March 2014, many of you made a complaint against the reduction or elimination of the annual travel allowance.
We thank you once again for your trust!
In fact, we had considered that, in order to ensure the admissibility of Article 90§2 complaints regarding both the travelling time and the travel expenses, it was important to make them immediately after the entry into force of the new Staff Regulations.
With its replies, the Appointing Authority is considering that the complaint regarding the reduction of travelling time is admissible.
On the contrary, for travel expenses, the relevant individual decision that a complaint can be made against is the salary slip of the month of June.
Therefore it is essential to introduce a new art. 90 complaint concerning travel expenses.
Various new templates, covering a range of different situations, and contesting the reduction or elimination of the annual travel allowance are now available on our dedicated website
Deadline: within 3 months of receiving your payslip of June 2014. To avoid problems, we advise lodging the appeal before the end of August 2014.With its replies, the Appointing Authority is considering that the complaint regarding the reduction of travelling time is admissible.
On the contrary, for travel expenses, the relevant individual decision that a complaint can be made against is the salary slip of the month of June.
Therefore it is essential to introduce a new art. 90 complaint concerning travel expenses.
Various new templates, covering a range of different situations, and contesting the reduction or elimination of the annual travel allowance are now available on our dedicated website
Internal competitions: the truth will out!
Enormous, for it concerns thousands of POST 2004 colleagues, who, once again, have been badly let down.
Charade, for these unofficial "promotions" have simply been removed from the quotas of the normal promotion exercise to allow these nominations to take place.
Charade, for the nature of the selection test and the choice of the questions showed a massive bias in favour of the Cabinet staff.
R&D's critical view on the subject was perceived at first as a smear campaign… but now the truth is out: out of the 40 laureates of the AD12 competition: 15 come from a Cabinet, to which one may add 5 Temporary Agents "linked to a cabinet" and one Temporary Agent working at EPSO… i.e. more than half the laureates on this list!
Guess how many laureates came from BUDG COMP, DGT, DIGIT, EAC, ECFIN, EMPL, ENER, ENTR, HOME, HR, MARE, MOVE, OIB, OIL, OLAF, OP, PMO, RTD, SANCO, SCIC and TAXUD? A grand total of none! Yes, you read it right: zero! Despite the fact that the population covered by this competition in these DGs represented a few thousand potential candidates. While the Cabinets, with only a hundred people, has 21 laureates.
R&D is not here to persecute the Cabinets, nor to deny the merits of Cabinet staff. Through these messages about golden parachutes, the internal competitions, the eligibility of ALL AD12/13 of the cabinets to the promotions exercise, R&D merely intends to defend the rights and expectations of all staff, and not to remain silent on any of the dodgy dealings that we are made aware of. European Commission careers cannot be handled like the World Cup, where the officials would be the audience, who pay dear for a ticket and end up with a slow career, while the phony Messi, Neymar and Ronaldo from the Cabinets get a penalty kick into an open net!
In the midst of this economic, political and institutional crisis, when citizens are being squeezed from every angle, the last thing they need to see is the European Commission following such bad personnel management practices. Not only does this maladministration badly impact the staff, but it also negatively affects the European spirit and jeopardizes the reputation and perspectives of the Union.
R&D commits to contact as soon as possible the new president of the European Commission to ensure that the POST 2004 issue becomes one of the priorities of the new college.
Salary adaptation 2011 and 2012
The deadline for lodging an appeal is 31/07/2014.
Art. 90 for career blockage
The Commission officials concerned have found, from 14 April 2014 on, a mention in the SYSPER2 file showing a career blockage.
This mention may be regarded as a decision of individual application of the appointing authority also challengeable.
As a precautionary measure, it seems necessary to also lodge a complaint against this decision.
We draw your attention to the fact that such a complaint must be filed no later than 14 July 2014.
You will find at these links (template AD12 and 13 - template AST9 - cover page) the templates of complaint adapted for both AD 12 - AD 13 and AST9 colleagues.
Simply fill in this template and send it, accompanied by a "print screen" of your SYSPER2 file, to the functional mailbox HR MAIL D2 by 14 July at the latest together with the enclosed art. 90 filled-in template.
Thank you again for your trust!
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