Is your EPSO assessment centre exam approaching (even if for now postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis) and you want to prepare properly?
Ya Semos Europeos (YSE), a training company Generation 2004 has teamed up with in the past to deliver courses for colleagues in the Commission, is offering online training sessions to exercise and reply to your individual questions on the EPSO assessment centre. Continue reading Online training courses for the EPSO assessment centre
While we are at home teleworking, Generation 2004 has not stopped working hard for you. During the past few weeks, we have engaged a lot with DG HR to raise awareness of your problems under the current confinement. In this article, we would like to inform you about the current state of play, what DG HR is planning, where we still see room for improvement and, most importantly, what we are doing about it. Continue reading Covid-19 – we are raising your problems with the Administration
These are difficult times for everyone, and there are different ways that we all try to best cope with the situation. Below is a proposal we received from one of our colleagues, that we help passing on. We leave it to you to judge if that is something that could work for you or you would like to try it out.
Take good care, stay safe and positive! Continue reading Thought Field Therapy training
Mandatory teleworking has become the rule for thousands of colleagues in the Commission and it is likely to remain so for weeks if not months to come. Generation 2004 fully supports this measure in the interest of public health and the protection of staff, but we are also concerned that the measure may place a disproportionate burden on some staff. Continue reading Teleworkers need help
Following our recent article on standby duty compensation, once again Generation 2004 recently stood by colleagues who were under pressure to ‘volunteer’ to set up and fulfil a standby guaranteeing to be available to work at short notice outside the normal Commission working hours: Monday to Friday 07.00-23.00. That meant that they were expected to be ready to work across evenings, weekends and public holidays as soon as any phone call was received and with no guidance on any compensation: financial or otherwise. With the support of Generation 2004, the outcome is that the service in question has reconsidered its standby needs and scrapped the rota [1]. Continue reading “Generation 2004 stands by staff on standby” yet again
Some Commission staff in European Commission (EC) Representations to EU Member States are subject to rotation. Under normal circumstances the exercise is already complex to manage. If you have any doubts about that, then think about the last time you moved house and then add to it: Continue reading Generation 2004 requests suspension of staff rotation in Representations during COVID-19 crisis
Generation 2004 continues to take action on the working conditions issues raised by you: we have sent a further note to the director general of HR, Ms Ingestad, highlighting four of the most pressing: Continue reading Note to DG HR on COVID-19 working conditions
For our daily work ‘For the many, not the few’ Generation 2004 employs a team of committed and hardworking colleagues. Due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus, our last call for interest has not allowed us to find a candidate and we invite you again to apply for this full-time secretary post. We offer a Contract Agent FG II contract. If you are not eligible but you know someone that is and that you believe could be interested in the job, please feel free to forward the message on. Continue reading Generation 2004 is hiring a Secretary at the European Commission in Brussels
It seems our article on the Brussels Local Staff Committee (LSC) positive change from last month was perhaps given the wrong title. Following the latest March plenary session, we now believe a question mark is needed. The correct title would then be: Positive change at the Brussels Local Staff Committee?
We believe this is so because of the positions and actions of some trade unions during the March plenary session, held with the single point of electing a new president of the LSC Brussels and this despite the request by Generation 2004 to include other points of more relevance for staff in the agenda. Continue reading Positive change at the Brussels Local Staff Committee?
The 2004 and 2014 staff regulations reforms introduced discrimination towards colleagues hired in the post 2004 generation, most of them from the – at the time – ten new Member States, which later got to 12 and eventually 13. These reforms introduced many changes affecting a wide range of working conditions for these newer colleagues while not touching most of the benefits of the already existing civil servants. Noteworthy are:
Continue reading A little reminder why Generation 2004 MUST exist
