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Tighten
your belts. Reform is on the way! |
The impact of the reform is upon us: staff will start
being subject to the first budgetary restrictions in
2003! That is the long and the short of the agreements signed by the two trade unions that support the Kinnock reform. Adjustments to
salaries for the period July-December 2003 will be held
over until On the basis of budgetary forecasts
for 2003, WE WILL THEREFORE LOSE, in the best-case
scenario, the ADJUSTMENT TO OUR SALARIES for SIX MONTHS. The administration, positively overjoyed by this windfall, has already set to work translating this into budgetary terms. Here are
the appropriations forecast for 2003 in two Institutions
(the Commission and the European Parliament) for the
application of the method of adjusting our salary: THE
COMMISSION A-1 1 9 1 Possible adjustments to salaries
And
that means: Appropriations for 2003 = 0 THE
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT As
for the possibility that the method may be re-applied,
the draft budget in its first reading in the European
Parliament states that no appropriation for adjusting
salaries has been budgeted for, because the method of
adjustment will cease to be used on 30 June 2003. In other
words, a saving of 6.5 million earmarked for the
buildings policy. On the subject of savings, R&D
would like to know how the temporary contribution has
been used during the last few years. When the method was
last re-negotiated ten years ago, the trade unions at the
time agreed not to get rid of the temporary contribution
on the express condition that the sums identified would
be earmarked on Community initiatives aimed mainly at
reducing youth unemployment in Europe. 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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