Equal pay
for equal work? Yes, but
not in the
Commissions social infrastructures! Brussels, 28 Septembre 2000 |
Did you know..? To operate its crèches, the Commission employs four categories of staff on as many pay rates and other terms and conditions of employment, to do one and the same job: that of crèche worker with responsibility for the care and balanced development of their charges. Historical reminder: The inter-institutional crèche was opened in the late 1960s, when staff were recruited on Local Agent contracts as defined by the Staff Regulations. Twenty years later, following a competition, there workers were given permanent contracts and became officials. Subsequently, the Administration had to deal with a shortage of crèche workers, partly because nearly all of them had moved on for perfectly valid reasons (e.g. retirement, disability or mobility), and partly because the infrastructural capacity had increased (i.e. the Palm and Beaulieu crèches and the new Clovis). These vacancies were filled as follows:
The current situation: The Commission therefore simultaneously employs crèche workers as follows:
These four statuses produce completely different terms and conditions of employment and pay rates. Furthermore, the parents whose children go to one of the three crèches pay the same fees according to whatever pay scale is in force What do we propose? R&D want the Administration to put an end to the unequal pay of its workers as soon as possible, and suggest that:
Did you say social infrastructures? We believe that when the Commission acts as a private sector employer, it should, like any other employer, attend to staff management with the utmost rigour, particularly as it concerns employees contracted to work for the social infrastructures (e.g. crèches and nurseries) provided for its officials. At a time when the European Institutions are already being subjected to numerous attacks in the press, this would seem to be the wrong moment to lay itself open to criticism over such matters. The Executive Committee |
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Membres du Comité Exécutif: Ianniello Franco, Adurno Giuseppe, Zorbas Gerassimos, Ravagli Alessandra, Uguccioni Bruno, Docherty Michael, Vassila-Souyoul Erica, Bochu Claude, Drevet Jean-François, Napolitano Raffaele, Crespinet Alain, Sybren Singelsma, Paul Frank, Panarisi Edi, Sperling Christiane, Domingos Dias. |
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