StaffCom Elections: What are the stakes?
There are two components to staff representation: statutory and trade-union. You will need both.
StaffCom Elections – 7 December 2016
EPSU CJ (an affiliate of USF) – Our programme – Our candidates.
Luxembourg weighting? Don’t be fooled!
Establishing a weighting for Luxembourg requires amending the Staff Regulations, which is known to be a high-risk operation.
EPSU-CJ: a new start under the USF banner
In Staff Committee elections on 7 December, colleagues in the Court of Justice will have every reason to vote for EPSU-CJ (an extract from Agora Magazine N° 77).
Annual update of salaries: +3.3%
Following years of loss in purchasing power, an amended Method was put back on the tracks in 2015. The update for 2016 will be +3.3%. How was this figure calculated ?
Pension rights : Transferring or not ?
As salaries are dropping, the minimum subsistence figure rule is increasingly determinant in calculating your pension (for SCs, for contract staff, and for ASTs with an incomplete career prospect).
Language course outsourcing
It’s time to stop social dismantling and guarantee the dignity of all workers who directly or indirectly work for the institutions.
Towards an end to medical overcharging?
Union Syndicale Fédérale requested the Luxembourg Government to fully implement Directive 2011/24/UE: Click on the PDF icon. Read further our legal analysis (in FR), our letter to the Luxembourg government and the answer of the latter to our letter.
Say No to CETA!
The anti-TTIP Luxembourg platform, of which Union Syndicale Fédérale is part, welcomes the fact that more and more political players seem finally to face the fact that the free-trade agreement TTIP is a threat to our acquired social, democratic and ecological rights and to our rights as consumers DE / FR. Read also ASSESS_CETA by the Austrian Federal Chamber of Labour (EN/DE).
mPass : Turning failure into a new start
A 30 % discount was offered by Luxembourg subject to the condition that the number of subscriptions would reach 1000 in three years. This period now comes to an end and the number of season-ticket holders has not even reached half that number (493).