Visit of VP Georgieva to Ispra
As staff representatives we explained to the VP
that, following the outcome of the Staff Satisfaction Survey, particular
attention should be given to “career” and “well-being”.
Specifically, the LSC delegation put forward several concrete ideas to the VP. As the JRC is a very complex DG spread over six sites, having staff naturally predisposed towards innovation, it may provide an ideal environment to become a social and organisational test-bed for the whole Commission to promote innovative and creative solutions in favour of improved well-being and productivity. The LSC delegation advanced two proposals: the “Mobility Market” (i.e., easier staff mobility as a normal practice by means of new rules and tools) and the provision of tools such as cloud storage or Connected to be made available and accessible to all staff anytime/everywhere. The LSC President stressed that too often (cyber)security, safety and data protection are used as insurmountable excuses to block otherwise desirable initiatives: flexibility requires an assumption of responsibility, and sometimes it's much more convenient to simply apply rules in a very restrictive way. This overly strict interpretation of rules often brings to inadequate implementation of IT tools causing inaccessibility - or difficult/limited access - from locations other than a desktop Commission PC.
In addition, the LSC President advanced the
request to support – under the umbrella of the Fit@work programme the VP
launched earlier in May – the construction of a new multipurpose Sports Hall to
replace the current very inadequate and obsolete tensostructure.
It was also
mentioned that, following an explicit request of our Director General, the LSC
is collecting ideas to increase the Ispra site attractiveness - feel
free to send us your own ideas: our staff representatives will bring them
to the attention of the LSC!
Overall, also thanks to the very constructive
dialogue of your staff representatives, we believe that the VP left Ispra with
a good impression of the JRC, its staff, and its activities.
STAFF SURVEY 2014: ALARMING RESULTS
The "Staff Satisfaction Survey
2014" results are more than worrying and confirm the profound demotivation
of the colleagues and the deterioration of the atmosphere within the services. The
message sent by the staff is crystal clear and unambiguous: our institution must
completely change its methods and practices.
R&D invites you to know more and
discuss the results on
Monday 08
June 2015
12.45 -14.30
IHCP room –
101/1302
Videolink with Brussels and other
sites
During the conference Mr Jerome
Maybon (Executive Partner at Agility-Board)
will provide his analysis of the Staff Survey 2014.
New Mechanism For Independent Scientific Advice - and the JRC?
Today Commissioner Moedas announced in a Press Conference about the new mechanism for independent scientific advice in the European Commission.
In an information note addressed to the College of Commissioners - written in agreement with the President and the first Vice-President - he states that ... the new scientific advice mechanism will receive operational support from DG Research and Innovation as the lead service, who will ensure close collaboration with other Commission services, including the Secretariat General, the European Political Strategy Centre, the Joint Research Centre, and those services responsible for existing specialist scientific advisory bodies.
On the same topic, see also the inputs given by Anne Glover and our Director General on Future Directions for Scientific Advice in Europe and the analysis given by ScienceInsider.
R&D has been following the debate that has been going on inside the Commission since the abolition of the Chief Scientific Adviser role last year (see our previous letters sent to his attention).
We are working on our position and welcome any comments you may have on this very important and sensitive topic.
Legionella in building 101
NOTE TO THE ATTENTION OF
MS I. SOUKA – DIRECTOR GENERAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND SECURITY
AND
MR V. SUCHA – DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE
Subject: Legionella in building 101
We contact you as R&D Ispra and CISL-Fir since we received from concerned colleagues of the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (IHCP) a message sent on 16 April 2015 (see attachment 1) by Mr Dan Chirondojan on
behalf of both the Ispra Site Management (ISM) and the Medical Service.
The case regards a previous message (attachment 2) sent on 17 March by JRC ISPRA INFOPOINT 100-101 to all staff of building 101 stating that, due to extraordinary maintenance, no sanitary hot water would be available in
building 101. This message was repeated for several days (attachment 3) without further details about the purpose of the works.
One month later staff received the above cited message of Mr Dan Chirondojan mentioning that already on 17 March 2015 "Legionella bacteria was detected in one tap of the hot sanitary water of building 101. As precautionary
action, in consultation with the Medical Service, the hot water supply in all building 101 was immediately suspended and technical steps taken to ensure a sufficiently high operational water temperature to eradicate any
potential risk".
Though we appreciate the action immediately taken in March, we are deeply concerned about the non-communication of the detected Legionella contamination to the occupants of the IHCP building by both ISM and the
Medical Service. In addition the building concerned is also frequented by visitors of the many meetings that the IHCP is organising and appropriate information was not given to them either.
We would like, therefore that a proper and adequate communication flow to the staff will be re-established immediately, and all relevant information concerning the actions taken to detect the source of the problem (not made available yet) are urgently communicated to the JRC staff. Furthermore, we would like to know your opinion whether Art. 8.3 of the COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 98/83/EC on the quality of water intended for human consumption is applicable or not.
Parents' Association President: really sure you know the full facts?
Unfortunately, instead of getting first-hand information from a reliable and trustworthy source like the R&D website, he preferred to spread outdated information - aiming at contesting the validity of R&D initiative about the Garderie bus.
If he had checked the facts, he would have discovered that the Ispra Site Director on 2nd April confirmed to R&D that:
"The WG came back to COPAS with two main
recommendations:
- To address to CASS a request for additional budget; this was done and the response was to find a
solution locally, no additional budget
- To discuss with the parents benefiting of this
service and to convince
them to contribute to the financial support of the service"
For the sake of completeness, we include hereafter the unfortunate masterpiece of the president of AGSEV:
Subject:
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Bus transportation from European school to the GARDERIE
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Date:
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Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:48:55 +0200
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From:
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parents association <parents.association@jrc.ec.europa.eu>
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To:
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parents association <parents.association@jrc.ec.europa.eu>
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Dear
Parents,
We
have taken note of a communication in which it refers to bus transportation
from European school to the GARDERIE, communication which argues that "
the JRC management is ready to support the concept that in Ispra parents will
have to pay…" for this transport
This
information does not correspond to reality.
AGSEV has followed with deep attention this issue and we can then communicate that when the coop. of transports asked JRC management to intervene, if necessary, to give funds for this service, the Site Management has expressed its positive opinion.
LSC
also expressed a strongly positive opinion.
In addition, various trade unions were unreservedly in favour of financing this transport.
As AGSEV we had confirmation of this, through reading of the minutes of various meetings.
In addition, various trade unions were unreservedly in favour of financing this transport.
As AGSEV we had confirmation of this, through reading of the minutes of various meetings.
We remember that a specific working group has been made in order to propose solutions to the problem, and we are waiting for the results
As
Parents Association we are convinced that this transport should not be on
charge of JRC staff, as it is an activity of great social importance, given
also flexitime changes for JRC employee
We are aware that they are currently taking place vote for the renewal of the LSC. For this reason, we prefer not to mention the name of the trade union, to avoid any possible manipulation of the parents position.
We simply wish to inform you that, in light of the documents that we have read, the mentioned notice of 7th of April, does not correspond to reality.
We are aware that they are currently taking place vote for the renewal of the LSC. For this reason, we prefer not to mention the name of the trade union, to avoid any possible manipulation of the parents position.
We simply wish to inform you that, in light of the documents that we have read, the mentioned notice of 7th of April, does not correspond to reality.
Of course all documentation is available to
anyone want go in deep.
Best regards,AGSEV President
Best regards,AGSEV President
_______________
We cordially suggest that the president of AGSEV stops defending the administration and starts acting in the real interest of staff and parents: in case of need, R&D is ready to provide him all the necessary support.
ElectoParade
Since R&D works only with facts and not unfounded allegations, we here publish the proof that the issue regarding the representativeness of the list Seville Voice was generated 100% because of internal communication problems within Generation 2004 itself.
This is the message sent yesterday evening by a Generation 2004 representative at JRC Seville to his leader in Brussels (Stefan Grech - Chair, Generation 2004 adf):
From: [name deleted for reasons of privacy]
Sent: 09 April 2015 22:33
To: GRECH Stefan (CDP-OSP)
Cc: DI PIETROGIACOMO Maria Paola (JRC-SEVILLA)
Subject: Sevilla Voice list
Dear Stefan,
I understand your point that you do not like see Generation 2004 associated to the Seville Voice list. Paola has suggested to correct the pre-election declaration and to declare the 11% as independent, which I hope will resolve the issue. My apologies for my mistake and the trouble this has caused. Nevertheless, I believe that the protracted situation is partly caused by the absence of a local staff committee in Seville and I hope that we will see some progress on this in the near future.
Best wishes, [name deleted for reasons of privacy]
Sent: 09 April 2015 22:33
To: GRECH Stefan (CDP-OSP)
Cc: DI PIETROGIACOMO Maria Paola (JRC-SEVILLA)
Subject: Sevilla Voice list
Dear Stefan,
I understand your point that you do not like see Generation 2004 associated to the Seville Voice list. Paola has suggested to correct the pre-election declaration and to declare the 11% as independent, which I hope will resolve the issue. My apologies for my mistake and the trouble this has caused. Nevertheless, I believe that the protracted situation is partly caused by the absence of a local staff committee in Seville and I hope that we will see some progress on this in the near future.
Best wishes, [name deleted for reasons of privacy]
ElectoParade - Top Vergognation
To mitigate the anxiety of the above-mentioned Trade Unions for their imminent electoral results, we wish to issue them some prizes:1) Prize "TAOfazzi 2015" to TAO/AFI for its message explaining the reasons pushing all candidates from all Trade Unions to become staff representatives:
“to each of the 290 candidates we can associate one of the following reasons;
- To solve personal problem/s .
- Possibility of leaving the service without the obligation of justifying the absence.
- To create relationships with VIP (Director General, Commissioners,...) to gain personal benefit.
- Have access to confidential information.
- Power trip.
- Lack of motivation in the service.
- Don Quixote.
- Robin Hood.
- Take a "selfy" with a VIP to decorate the wall of his office.
- Travel (missions).
- Handle information.
- Indicate in the annual appraisal report "Completed tasks in the institution's interest."
- To bring votes in the list.
- Exhibitionism...”
Thanks to their extraordinary performance, TAO/AFI also wins the prize "Best LSC weakening action 2015" awarded by the Administration, and the gratitude of all candidates for finally making them feeling part of the same united body, sharing the same values and principles.
2) Prize "8 March" to USI for its public recognition of the hard work, commitment and dedication of Ms Paola Di Pietrogiacomo in favour of Seville staff.
3) Prize "Scajola 2015" to Generation 2004, which received a quota of representativeness from Seville Voice without his knowledge.
4) Prize "Dummy Bullhorn" to TAO/AFI and SAVE Europe for their sensationalistic relaunch of the alleged electoral fraud of Seville Voice.
5) Prize "Lapalissade" to SAVE Europe for its discovery that "voting for one Union or for another isn't the same thing".
6) Prize "Voglio vivere così..." to SAVE Europe for its accusation of camouflage to Seville Voice, when they present ISCA (100% SAVE Europe).
7) Prize "Coitus interruptus" to SAVE Europe for noticing only one out of four ex-Caterpillar candidates standing for elections.
For full climax, 2 are standing with R&D, 1 with Generation 2004, 1 with CISL and 4 are no longer candidates.
Many thanks to all these Trade Unions: we wish them a good electoral result to continue having fun!! ---)))
2) Prize "8 March" to USI for its public recognition of the hard work, commitment and dedication of Ms Paola Di Pietrogiacomo in favour of Seville staff.
3) Prize "Scajola 2015" to Generation 2004, which received a quota of representativeness from Seville Voice without his knowledge.
4) Prize "Dummy Bullhorn" to TAO/AFI and SAVE Europe for their sensationalistic relaunch of the alleged electoral fraud of Seville Voice.
5) Prize "Lapalissade" to SAVE Europe for its discovery that "voting for one Union or for another isn't the same thing".
6) Prize "Voglio vivere così..." to SAVE Europe for its accusation of camouflage to Seville Voice, when they present ISCA (100% SAVE Europe).
7) Prize "Coitus interruptus" to SAVE Europe for noticing only one out of four ex-Caterpillar candidates standing for elections.
For full climax, 2 are standing with R&D, 1 with Generation 2004, 1 with CISL and 4 are no longer candidates.
Many thanks to all these Trade Unions: we wish them a good electoral result to continue having fun!! ---)))
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