Union Syndicale offers you a new service: “Staff Matters”, a legal newsletter on staff rights, the first issue of which is now available.

Union Syndicale will thus be able to keep you regularly informed of recent developments in case law relating to the European civil service and provide you with a variety of useful information.

We will cover subjects such as your rights to promotion, the invalidity procedure, social benefits, pension, the duty to have regard for the welfare of staff, leave, insurance, compensation, or procedural issues such as lodging complaints or compliance with deadlines. In this way, we want to make you better aware of your rights, so that you can defend them. A short excerpt from Staff Matters #15:

In this issue, we analyse a recent Tribunal ruling confirming the right to strike for staff. The Court ruled that the European Parliament had no legal basis for requisitioning interpreters and conference interpreters during strike action. The right to strike is a fundamental right enshrined in Article 28 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Any limitation on the exercise of the rights and freedoms recognised by the Charter must be provided for by law. The Tribunal rejected the various legal bases put forward by Parliament to justify the requisitions and concluded that no limitation on the right to strike was provided for by law. The Court also ordered Parliament to pay €500 to each staff member requisitioned as compensation for non-material damage.

You can find all issues of Staff Matters, our legal newsletter, here.