Vaccination is an act of solidarity
In pandemic conditions, individual health protection is inseparable from community protection. Let us show solidarity! Click here to read our message.
Author Archive for: Vassilis Sklias
Entries by Vassilis Sklias
2021 Salaries update: +1.9%
After a sharp recession during the reference period 2019-20, the European Union’s GDP has returned to growth. However, the 2.5% component suspended last year will not be repaid until GDP reaches its pre-crisis level. See video presentation, an explanatory flyer and an authentic history of “the Method”, VOX Magazine (FR-EN-DE).
—See updated salary grids for →officials and temporary staff; →contract staff.
Post-lockdown working at home
In light of the lockdown experience, which forced generalised teleworking, the system is undergoing important changes. Here are the main points and our first reactions.
Sharing Experience, Building Solidarity!
One of the criteria required by the institution to recognise a trade union is its independence, guaranteed primarily by the subscriptions paid by its members. Click on the picture to see how expenses are broken down.
Season tickets
EPSU-CJ provides a € 60 per year subsidy to its cross-border members who subscribe to season-tickets.
Pay supplement increased following Luxembourg Social Min Wage
The Luxembourg minimum social wage (SSM) will be increased by 2.8% from 1-1-2021. Therefore, it will have a stronger impact on the pay supplement (in FR) negotiated in 2017 by EPSU-CJ in favour of our colleagues whose salaries fall below the national legal minimum. The extent of this impact is illustrated in the salary grids for officials & temporary staff, and those for contract staff.
+0.7% update under the exception clause
The sanitary crisis has triggered the exception clause, which will be applied for the first time in its 2014 Staff Regulations version. Luckily, the exception clause is no longer left to the subjective assessment of the institutions, which in the past had raised social unrest. You may find here explanations on the working of the Method. In VOX Nr 117, you can find an overview of how the 6th method has worked so far (in FR).