(see also Myintracomm - blue network or Myintracomm - green network)
Staff cuts
To reduce staff numbers
in all categories and in all Institutions, bodies and agencies by 5% by 2018,
by not replacing part of the staff leaving the service.
The Method
· To extend the Method for adjusting
salaries and pensions to 10 years (compared
to 8 years in the initial proposal from
June 2011), simplify the process by modifying certain parameters,
and introduce a new exception clause to allow the Commission to react appropriately if faced with serious
economic crises in the future. To
change the correction coefficient calculation, using the July 2012 coefficient
as a starting base and update it based on the national inflation.
· To introduce a new solidarity levy
(replacing the current special levy) of 6.0%
as from 1 January 2013 for
the duration of the method.
Retirement and pensions
· To increase the normal retirement
age to 65 years.
· To increase the minimum age
for early retirement with reduction
of acquired pension rights from the
current 55 years to 58 years.
Conditions of employment
· To increase the number
of minimum weekly working hours for staff in all
Institutions, bodies and agencies i.e. to 40 hours per week (from average of from
37.5 hours), while maintaining the
statutory maximum of 42 hours per week.
· To include in the Staff Regulations an
explicit reference to the current flexible working arrangements and to limit
the possibilities for managers to
recuperate extra days on a systematic
basis.
Annual trip home and service related trips
· To limit
the number of leave days granted to
staff for their annual trip to their home
Member State to a maximum of 3 days, instead of the current maximum of 6 days.
· To introduce a new simplified and modernized
method for calculating the distance
between the place of employment and the place of origin in the home country. It will have an impact
on allowances linked with the annual trip home
as well as the trips linked to taking up duty, end of service and
transfer.
Careers
· To allow Contract Agents in all function
groups in the Institutions to stay for a maximum of 6
years instead of the current 3 years.
· For the AST function group, to establish
a closer link between responsibilities and grades - as exists for the two
highest AD grades. In the future, AST officials who wish to progress to the AST
10 grade will have to demonstrate,
via a selection procedure, that they possess the appropriate level of expertise
and qualifications.
· To create a new AST/SEC function group
for career path for staff performing
secretarial task
· For AST 1 staff recruited after 2004, to
introduce the possibility for a limited
number of staff to broaden their
career prospects, again linked to job responsibilities.
· To allow for corrective measures for certain nationalities, with a view to
addressing geographical imbalances.
