Our Pensions

Kinnock has damaged our pension schemes and the salary adjustment method by applying rough and ready changes without proper dialogue with the trade unions. The result is that you will have to work longer and contribute more, to reach the same level of allowances and therefore the same level of retirement. The salary adjustment method was changed to save money. Between 2004 and 2008, the Kinnock method has decreased your purchasing power by 2.3% in 4 years, which represents a saving of less than 1% of the entire community budget. The current salary adjustment method will end in 2013. The true challenge will be to replace it and to decide what to replace it with.

06Oct2011

Join us in our discussion meetings in the month of October

pinomar Career Prospect and Promotion, Caring for our kids, Contractual Agents, EEAS, European Civil Service, Health, Our Pensions, Outside the Union, Professional and Private Life, Purchasing Power, Reform 2013, Staff Regulations

Changing our Staff Regulations is a serious matter because it affects the future of the European Civil Service. The proposals made by the Commission last June are a catalogue of disjointed measures that aim to make even more savings on the back of staff and, more importantly, to undermine the very structure of our civil […]

01Oct201107Oct2011

Reform 2013: The Commission proposes a new and improved Method for adjusting remuneration and pensions

pinomar Our Pensions, Reform 2013, Staff Regulations

Current situation The “Method”, first adopted by the Council in 1972, has a proven record of effectiveness over 40 years as an efficient, transparent and simple tool for adjusting remuneration and pensions, with the intention of avoiding annual salary negotiations and lengthy strikes in the Institutions. The salaries of EU staff are adjusted annually in […]

01Oct201107Oct2011

Reform 2013: Retirement – Proposal made by the Commission

pinomar Our Pensions, Reform 2013, Staff Regulations

Current situation Currently, the normal retirement age for officials recruited after 1 May 2004 is 63 years. Officials recruited before 1 May 2004 are subject to transitional provisions according to which the retirement age varies from 60 years to 63 years. A penalty of 3.5% per year is applied for each year that someone taken […]

27Sep2011

Third Administrative Consultation on the revision of the Staff Regulations

chaouda Our Pensions, Purchasing Power, Reform 2013, Staff Regulations

Please find enclosed the DG HR report on the third Administrative Consultation on the revision of the Staff Regulations held on the 20 of september 2011. Delegated acts Agency Package Transparency

30Aug2011

Transfert of Pension Rights: how to lodge a Complaint

pinomar Career Prospect and Promotion, Contractual Agents, Our Pensions

Transfert des Droits à Pension – Modification Rétroactive des paramètres de Calcul de Bonification de vos droits Conformément à l’article 11 de l’annexe VIII du statut, les agents qui entrent en service dans une institutions communautaires (institutions, agences ou offices) ont la faculté de faire transférer les droits à pension acquis avant leur entrée en […]