The reform of the Junior Professional Programme "Eppure si muove " (and yet it moves)
Brussels, 10 November 2020
The reform of the Junior Professional Programme
"Eppure si muove " (and yet it moves)Recall
of facts
First, let us recall all the
communications and other R&D initiatives denouncing the unacceptable
and heinous nature of this programme, as well as the intolerable
discrimination it has created, in particular towards our CA, AST, and AST-SC
colleagues ( our communications )
In particular, we denounced that this
programme, aka "friends first", was the triumph of the fait du prince
(or princess), and the open door to nepotism and favouritism!
Despite all our
warnings, DG HR continued to move forward for two years!
All our criticisms
and all our requests have been rejected and almost ridiculed by DG HR with an
inquisitive, haughty and contemptuous tone
In particular, by
having recourse to pseudo-legal arguments, the administration claimed
that our requests aimed at allowing all colleagues meeting the eligibility
conditions to enrol in this programme, without prejudice to the nature of their
contract, were outright inadmissible.
In response to
these unreasonable DG HR’s proclamations, we refused to recant our claims, we confirmed all our criticisms and
our legal analyses.
The changes all of
a sudden introduced by DG HR to the JPP
Now, all of a sudden DG HR is proposing a new generation of
the programme ... recognizing the merits of the criticisms made by R&D, after probably realizing, without a
shadow of a doubt, that maintaining the current approach was simply
indefensible.
Faithful to its
highly selective approach aimed at enhancing and amplifying opinions which go
in the desired direction and simply ignore those which do not correspond to its
priorities, DG HR has just published a communication announcing these changes,
specifying that they aim to respond to requests from staff and their
representatives…. which would have been, for once… and after two years and five
exercises, finally heard!
In particular, as
we have constantly requested, the JPP will henceforth be open to officials and
to temporary staff in Categories AST and AST-SC, as well as to ALL fellow
contract agents, both for function groups I, II, III than IV.
However, the condition remains of having
a university degree and meeting the other selection criteria, in particular the
maximum duration of 3 years of professional experience.
Candidates will have to pass the CBTs in
order to be shortlisted by the DGs.
This is still an umpteenth pilot
exercise and a consultation process will be organized to address, before the
launch of the 2021 exercise, all the other aspects that remain unchanged at
this stage concerning in particular the length of the professional experience
required. , the number of candidates…
And DG HR must also explain how
they want to duly compensate colleagues who were ineligible at the time under
the old selection criteria and who are now ineligible again because they have
exceeded the maximum duration of professional experience!
Regarding the
communication from DG HR ( lien ), we could note, echoing the responses
of colleagues, that:
1) we are still waiting for the
necessary reforms of the EPSO selection procedures, which are nevertheless the
real deep root of the recruitment problems;
2) in the consultation with DG
HR, a proposal entitled "Keep the Junior Professionals Programme"
was the one that obtained the worst score among colleagues, coming down to -640
votes;
3) DG HR is the big winner of the
competition ““making decisions while consultations with staff related to
the“ modernization ”of Human Resources” are still ongoing” ;
4) social dialogue in the new DG
HR’s style now seems to be a painful chore that they need to get rid of as much
as possible: it is better to limit ourselves to a simple communication sent a
few hours before the official announcement;
5) we take care of that poor and
unfortunate DG HR’s colleagues who are thus entitled to announce exactly the opposite
of what they had so proudly indicated so far and, as if that were not painful
enough, they must also getting the heated criticism of staff representation
about the lack of any real social dialogue;
6) aware of their sincere
embarrassment, we propose to grant these colleagues an allowance for such
strenuous work!
7) the candidates’ selection
procedure remains absolutely unacceptable and should have been corrected
without delay since it lacks all the necessary guarantees of transparency and
equitable treatment, and also because of the least parity-based dimension,
under which the staff representatives are relegated to the role of simple observers;
8) It is still unacceptable that
our colleagues in the Executive Agencies continue to be excluded;
9) these changes will not be
enough to stem the criticism relating to access to AD civil servant posts
under conditions which are not even comparable with those of an open
competition and which candidates for these competitions, including colleagues
excluded from the JPP because of the eligibility criteria with regard in
particular to the maximum duration of professional experience, will see their
chances further reduced due to the quota of posts allocated to the JPP;
10) despite these changes, this programme risks
remaining one of the primary sources of demotivation for many colleagues.
But, in spite of
all this…, let us rejoice that our administration finally begins to recognize
the merits of our criticisms that, without in any way refusing to recant our claims we had always confirmed by repeating… “And
yet it moves” !
And we must recognize that this is a
significant change as compared to the "change - a real masquerade" -
concocted in the past by the DG HR by “moving” from the "Junior
professional" to the "Junior programme" ... namely the triumph
of "changing everything so that everything stays the same".
True to our ever-constructive spirit, we
remain hopeful that within the framework of the next "social monologue"
that DG HR announces in this
regard for the next exercise, it will be possible to correct the remainder of the
subsisting critical aspects.
Thus, we remain online, in front of our PCs, awaiting a convocation, in 2021, of course… a few hours before the launch of the next exercise.
Cristiano Sebastiani,
President
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