European Civil Service
R&D congratulates the happy “clients” from cabinet BARROSO, TAJANI, FULE and REDING click here on their recent appointment as Director or Advisor and would like to offer them a gift: a parachute with their initials embroidered with gold thread. Enough is Enough! While thousands of young officials will fail the internal competitions, while thousands of civil […]
Read moreFor several weeks, R&D reported a real invasion of “parachutists” jumping from all floors of the Berlaymont to senior management posts which were freed in advance, sometimes by thanking acting colleagues who often occupied those posts for months… These nominations and career accelerations are all the more unacceptable when the post-2004 colleagues still have […]
Read moreThe request of staff to unions is clear: “please agree and join forces to defend us more effectively” Reply from R&D: colleagues, you are right! Stop union cacophony You have been flooded by different types of complaints from different unions. Many of you ask what you should do, alone or with their support, confronted with […]
Read more64 years late! Flexible working arrangements, beneficial to both employers and workers … such are the conclusions of an earlier study by the European Commission! If “New World of Work” means a host of new management practices (management by objectives, management by project, knowledge management, etc.) and organisational forms (networks, virtual and independent teams, etc.), which combine with each other […]
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