PMO hesitates, R&D bridges the gap!

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Following our request to re-establish an individual rights sector at Ispra, we regret to inform you that we have received a negative answer from the Director of PMO.

In his reply, the Director claims that Ispra-based staff – as well as staff of other remote sites – receives a level of service comparable to that offered to staff working in Brussels and Luxembourg.

Additionally, he doesn’t share our view that the Ispra site population is sufficiently large to justify the reopening of a local individual rights settlement office; staff cuts are also mentioned as a limiting factor.

Unfortunately, we know from experience how far sometimes reality is from the idyllic picture drawn by the Director; in fact, when special cases arise, our colleagues frequently encounter major difficulties in getting adequate responses.

We still hope that the PMO Director will revise his decision in the future.

In the meantime, we invite all of you, especially newcomers, to submit to us any issues you are facing with the assessment of your individual rights.

This service will be freely available to everybody; we’ll try to fill the gap and be your local interface with PMO.1, as we have already done successfully for “Cassa Malattia” reimbursement claims(*).

We are confident our PMO colleagues in Brussels will be pleased to help us provide an efficient service to Ispra staff.



(*) We are happy that an official helpdesk service for Cassa Malattia has recently been made available. R&D requested this service many times in the past, and we thank PMO for putting it in place. We  will continue to offer supplementary Cassa Malattia assistance to our members.

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