The Court of Justice confirms the unlawfulness of taking nationality into account when calculating the reimbursement of annual travel expenses! On 18 April 2024, the Court of Justice delivered a CURIA – Documents (europa.eu) judgment in which it declared unlawful the second paragraph of Article 8 of Annex VIII to the Staff Regulations, concerning the […]
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Possible “reform” of the Staff Regulations in 2013
Over the past few months the trade unions have suggested that you introduce complaints against the unfairest provisions that the Council and Parliament have imposed on us, with the complicity of the Commission. To defend staff to the best of our ability, the trade unions and staff associations of all institutions have decided to join […]
Read moreTemplates are now available for complaints against the reduction or elimination of the Annual Travel Allowance! Dear colleagues, During March 2014, many of you made a complaint against the reduction or elimination of the annual travel allowance. We thank you once again for your trust! In fact, we had considered that in order to […]
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 moreOnce upon a time there was an extremely miserly man, so miserly that he would not utter the word “give”. He had decided to reduce the lifestyle of the large family house that he had inherited from his parents. So he shared his complaints with his 26 brothers and sisters: “We spend far too much […]
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