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Transferring your pension rights: think twice before deciding!

April 26, 2012

Whether or not to transfer to the Community pension scheme pension rights acquired under different schemes is an important decision, which is for you to take.

Adjustment of remuneration and pensions: sidetracking the institutional setup

January 19, 2012

The Council’s refusal to approve the adjustment of remuneration and pensions is worrying not only because it violates a right of the staff enshrined in the Staff Regulations, but also because it highlights the fact that political ‘appropriateness’ increasingly prevails over the rule of law.

Evolution of purchasing power

December 5, 2011

By a formal Decision, the Council refused to adopt the Commission’s proposal to adjust remuneration and pension in accordance with the Method. The Commission has decided to bring an action against the Council in the Court of Justice for not adopting the annual adjustment to remuneration and pensions of EU staff, thus breaching the Staff Regulations.

Working hours : Social regression is on the move !

November 24, 2011

Since the Industrial Revolution, shorter working hours have become synonymous with social progress. While the legislative practice so far has been to lay down minimum requirements (e.g., a maximum working time), in its draft revision of the Staff Regulations, the Commission is fixing a minimum working week: working longer to ‘offset’ the loss of jobs! This will set a precedent that the Commission will certainly invoke throughout Europe.(article published in FR in Agora Magazine Nr 64).

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Transferring your pension rights: think twice before deciding!

Adjustment of remuneration and pensions: sidetracking the institutional setup

Evolution of purchasing power

Working hours : Social regression is on the move !

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