Language training courses: Italian, English, French and German
Our teachers are native speaking highly experienced in teaching English, German, French and Italian to foreigners.
Send a message to jrc-rd-ispra@ec.europa.eu by Tuesday 18th October and indicate the language lessons you would like to take: we will contact you for an appointment to determine your level and to agree on the next steps (length of the course/date and time, etc..).
What we are doing for you
What can you expect from us during the next 4 months?
a) Tomorrow, Wednesday 7/9 at 10:00 (New Auditorium – bdg. 58) there will be an Assembly on the Correction Coefficient. We will inform you on how we foresee to continue our legal battle in Court.
The actual proposal of the Commission for the new method would mean that the 2010, 2011 and in particular the 2012 Correction Coefficient will have a permanent negative impact on our salaries from 2013 on!
Please, join us tomorrow for a more detailed explanation.
b) We are participating in the working group (GTR) organized by DG HR and EUROSTAT trying to protect Ispra for a further decline of the CC in 2011.
c) We are actively participating in the negotiations with DG HR on the New Commission Reform. We will continue to encourage the Commission to increase the role of the JRC within the Institution.
d) Our people are active in the different appraisal and promotion committees, trying to help those colleagues who lodged an appeal against their 2010 CDR.
e) We will continue to push for further investments to improve the site. As you can see, our efforts have led already to some remarkable results. Some others are still under construction.
These are only a few examples of what we are doing at the moment. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you would like some more information or support on whatever subject. We are there for you!
PS: an info that might be useful for those who rent an accommodation: if you gave a “Libretto di Risparmio al Portatore” to your landlord for the 3 months guarantee, please note that according to a very recent Decree, the value of a Libretto must be less than 2500 EUR after 30 September 2011, otherwise a penalty of 3000 EUR is applied!
Ref.: http://www.posteitaliane.it/resources/bancoposta/pdf/normativa_antiriciclaggio.pdf
Correction Coefficient Varese
Especially now!
WHY?
Because the Commission has proposed, in its new reform proposals, to establish the yearly correction of the new Correction Coefficient based on the Local Inflation Data and no longer on the purchasing power differences between Brussels and Varese.In principle this doesn't sound so bad but please be aware that the starting point for this new method is of fundamental importance. If we were to get a yearly inflation correction starting from a CC of 92,3 ; an effective salary reduction of 7,7% for staff working in Ispra would have been fixed and established for the entire duration of the new method!
We are now ready to go to Court to defend our rights. We have asked all Trade Unions in Ispra to participate in the costs.
Our first estimate of the costs is around 20.000 Euro.
As far as we know we have 8 Trade Unions in Ispra:
R&D
Cisl
SE
USI
FFPE
SFIE
TAO-AFI
U4U
We have asked each Trade Union to pay 2500 Euro, in order to start the court case.
R&D Ispra is now waiting for their reply.
Joint Declaration of the Trade Union Majority
In the frame of the current development the undersigned trade unions join their forces to defend the interests of all staff in Ispra and Seville
This decision marks our aim for unity to face the dangerous reform of the Staff Regulations, as prepared by the Commission and bending to the will of the Council and the Member States
This joining of the forces, harmonised with the trade union majority of the Central Staff Committee, will reinforce our coordination and action capacity together with our colleagues of the same trade unions in Brussels
R&D CISL FFPE SFIE U4U
H. Nieman M. Gemelli S. Scheer C.Zonca S. Pakalin
CDR Appeals: template
EPSO Open Competitions training course
The course will be given on 10th June 2011 (whole day) in the Auditorium - bdg.58 - by our trainer Anne Draime.If you are interested, please subscribe at this page.The course is open for free to R&D members. Non members have to subscribe to R&D for 6 months.
Structure of the course:
- Introduction to the Assessment Center - (analyses of the competences assessed through the different step of the Assessment Center)
- Structured Interview
- In-tray exercise and word document
- Situational Judgement Test
Reform of Staff Regulations
A couple of weeks ago we informed you about the start of the negotiations on the Staff Regulations. This week Vice-President Šefčovič informed all staff and the European Parliament more in detail about it and that these issues will be the subject of constant dialogue with both staff and staff representatives. We would have appreciated to have received this information before the presentation of Commissioner Lewandowski to the press in which he revealed the existence of a plan to deeply revise the status and privileges of European civil servants to be disclosed in June 2011.
Due to this reverse order one might have the impression that everything is already pre-cooked and that the social dialogue will serve only to just sell the plan.
Due to this reverse order one might have the impression that everything is already pre-cooked and that the social dialogue will serve only to just sell the plan.
In his message Vice-President Šefčovič refers to three elements to be taken into account:
1) The principle of having a method for adjusting salaries and pensions has shown its merit over nearly 40 years. The Commission will defend the need for a new method.
2) We have to ensure the attractiveness, high quality and independence of the European Civil Service; this includes being competitive in the jobs market for the best talent and includes the need for attractive salaries, pensions and working conditions for well qualified, multilingual staff willing to live outside their home country with their families.
3) There is an ongoing need to modernise our administration, to update our working methods and to find efficiency and cost savings in line with similar developments in the Member States and other international organisations.
To the European Parliament he said: "Savings on administrative expenditure must be envisaged very carefully, taking into account the savings and the changes in the Status already introduced by the 2004 reform."
These elements could contain both positive and negative points, opportunities and threats. But as long as the main goal is "HOW TO SAVE MONEY" in this current negative context driven by populistic and demagogic interests, we are not very optimistic.
For element 1) e.g. the Correction Coefficient comes across and without a method the Commission would have to negotiate each year our salary adaption with the Council (read: member states).. For element 2) "attractive" salaries sounds attractive, but attractive for who and what means attractive for different staff categories. Everything has to be envisaged in the frame of the "cost savings" of element 3). It will be clear that it could go in any direction during the "social dialogue". For the above mentioned reasons and especially the issues that might have an impact on Ispra, R&D Ispra wants to participate in these meetings together with our Trade Union in BXL. On May 19 the next meeting with Vice-President Šefčovič will take place. We will keep you informed about the general developments of these meetings.
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