{"id":17013,"date":"2025-02-02T19:55:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bruxelles.unionsyndicale.eu\/?p=17013"},"modified":"2025-02-02T20:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T19:05:40","slug":"local-staff-committee-elections-2025-priority-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruxelles.unionsyndicale.eu\/en\/local-staff-committee-elections-2025-priority-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Staff Committee Elections 2025 : Priority 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"g-cols wpb_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column us_custom_432d3f53\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><b><span lang=\"en-US\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The\u00a0Union Syndicale\u00a0wants more and better for Contract Agents<\/span><\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Since the 2010s, the Commission has continued to use an increasing number of Contract Agents, while the number of civil servants is no longer increasing. The proportion of contract workers among the staff has risen sharply, making the European Civil Service increasingly precarious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">However, contract colleagues face a double challenge. First of all, the absence of a career since the contracts of Contract Agents falling under Art. 3 at RAA are limited to 6 years. In addition, Contract Agents recruited on the basis of Art. 3 Bis RAAs (who may have a permanent contract) benefit from professional mobility restricted to the offices (PMO, OIB, OIL and EPSO). In addition, the Commission offers few reclassifications (promotions) for these colleagues and almost no changes in function groups or professional development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">However, today, more and more Contract Agents are called upon to perform tasks similar to AST and AD civil servants, with lower levels of remuneration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">We believe it is important to put an end to the current situation and to organise employment conditions that are more in line with European standards and to take account of the demands of colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><em><strong><span lang=\"en-US\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The\u00a0Union Syndicale\u00a0is proposing the following demands for Contract Agents:<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Offer priority to contract agents with 4 or more years of contract to fill temporary agent positions, and ensure transparency of information about AT positions;<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Review the Commission\u2019s decision on the cumulation of contracts and adjust it to allow the combination of a contract period and a 4-year temporary agent period;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Adopt a provisional calendar of internal competitions to be planned a year in advance, allowing Cas or CASs who have become Temporary Agents to have a chance to gain the status of the civil servant;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Increase the reclassification quotas for contract agents to improve their career prospects;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Provide for annual screening for a chance of function group, based on recent experience in Brussels and Luxembourg. This screening wil require a regular review of job descrptions;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Organize voluntary mobility for 3bis contract agents within the institution\u2019s departements, and provide for a mobility exercice for 3ter contract agents within the Offices, with EU representations and delegations, as well as with other institutions and agencies facing problems of job insecuritu identical to those of the Commission.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">This organised mobility could consider the arduous nature of the jobs (drivers, childcare nurses), so that they can move on to other positions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en-US\"><em>Union Syndicale<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">will be by your side to defend your rights and improve your working conditions.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"w-separator size_large\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Union Syndicale\u00a0wants more and better for Contract Agents. 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