Brussels, 9 October 2001
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Premium
Payments To Managers? Who Wants Them? Brussels, 9 October 2001 |
| Unlike many employees in the private and public
sectors of Member States, European Commission officials
have hitherto had a clear, transparent system of
remuneration whereby everyone knows exactly what everyone
else earns. In the reform project currently being discussed on the High-Level Body (the Ersbøll Group), the Commission has reiterated its intention to set up a premium payment scheme designed to reward certain ‘overloaded’ officials on a discretionary basis. Obviously, it is all about making additional payments to members of the hierarchy, and staff working in cabinets, who feel disadvantaged by the growing gap between grades and functions. All the unions expressed their opposition to the establishment of such a scheme, many seeing it as partial and opaque, not to say immoral. R&D argues as follows: - at the level of principles, although premium payments may be justified in private sector companies that make money, they have no place in an Administration that spends money earned by European taxpayers; - from the point of operating such a scheme, premium schemes currently functioning in the administrations of certain Member States provide examples of the downside: this might include the setting up of a parallel (not to say ‘hush hush’), and often very hierarchised, system that creates imbalances in the pension scheme. R&D will continue to defend its positions, and will keep you full informed of all developments in the negotiations on reform. 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. |