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Pre-Retirement/Redundancy
: Admission Of Incompetence Or A
Modern Instrument Of Personnel
Policy? Brussels, 25 September 2000 |
A reminder of the main provisions of the draft proposal to the Council: - minimum qualifying conditions: 10 years service, age 50; - value of pension: 65% of final salary + benefits; - opportunity to pay into pension scheme for 6 years; - number of beneficiaries: 300 in 2001; 300 in 2002 (or about 10% of the eligible population); - beneficiaries: all grades except A1 and A2. Priority given to tops of grades: A4, B1, C1 and D1. The Administration to take account of the skill profile, age, output and conduct during the period of service. Measures in support of the reform include the Councils draft regulation on pre-retirement, which is available on the following intranet : http://www.cc.cec/home/matching/fr/early_fr.html THE MAIN OBSERVATIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS: THE CONCEPT The details of the definition of beneficiaries are largely negative: officials unable to re-direct their careers, and who have particular difficulties in acquiring the necessary knowledge and skills. What will happen in these circumstances to officials who are candidates but are not successful? They will have admitted their incapacities with the backing of their hierarchies, but they then have to remain in their jobs. What, then, is to become of these colleagues? In the view of R&D, a draft pre-retirement scheme must be a voluntary, dignified and automatic matter for those who apply for it; it must also be open to all who meet certain objective and indisputable objectives, and not a gift for some and a semi-reprimand for others. THE CONDITIONS The figure of 65% of final salary is below what is offered for redundancies linked to enlargements. What is the reason for this discrimination? According to the Councils draft proposal, the normal scheme applies after six years voluntary contributions to the old age insurance scheme. That would seriously penalise many people throughout their retirement. Moreover, to deal with obligations particularly associated with enlargement (28% of the European public service will eventually have to be recruited from candidate countries) and the need to free up posts for new member countries, R&D proposes the introduction of a permanent pre-retirement scheme for officials/temporary agents starting in January 2001 in anticipation of redundancy linked to enlargement, and which: 1. is exclusively voluntary; 2. is open to all who meet the objective conditions of age and seniority as fixed by the Council regulation; 3. takes account of age and length of service, particularly for the oldest colleagues, who must not be discriminated against; 4. complies with provisions of the Staff Regulations that protect the European public service against conflicts of interest; 5. is managed on joint basis so as to avoid favouritism. In this way, it will be possible to become a European official and, after a number of years, to have the opportunity to leave the Institution in a voluntary, dignified manner. to be continued 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. |