During the 2013 exercise, R&D had already compared the promotion exercise to a board game between DGs and we announced the winners: in other words DGs who swiped more promotions from the others (2013 Appraisal exercise: And the winner is…). As part of the 2014 exercise, the feeling of taking part in the organization […]
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A career structure ought to allow everyone the greatest personal fulfilment: experience and merit are the cornerstones of a freely chosen career
The lists of proposed reclassifications made by the DGs were released last week and the period for the introduction of appeals for colleagues that have not been proposed has just been closed. R&D would like to bring to your attention the problems of this new (since last year) reclassification system. Let’s start with a […]
Read moreR&D has repeatedly complained about the lack of social dialogue with DG HR in recent months. Nevertheless, this has now gone even further: DG HR does not now even speak to its colleagues in the same DG! Here’s an example…. Certification exercises were traditionally launched at the end of the year, with an application […]
Read moreThe reserve lists of all the recent internal competitions have now been published AD10 (COM/1ADV10/13) – AD 12 (COM/2/ADV12/13) AD7 (COM/1/AD7/13) – AD8 (COM/2/AD8/13) – AD9 (COM/3/AD9/13) AST 3 (COM/1/AST3/13 – AST4 (COM/2/AST4/13) Throughout the whole procees, R&D has assisted unsuccessful applicants by providing them with “request for review” templates and Article 90 templates […]
Read moreThe publication of the results of the AST 3/4 and AD 10/12 competitions has shown what R&D had forecast and from the beginning (link 1 – link 2). Although the idea of these internal competitions was originally conceived as a method to alleviate the injustice that POST 2004 colleagues suffered regarding their grading on recruitment; these […]
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