●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, February 11, 2026 ●●
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[04:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Thursday 12 February, 11.00 hrs - Salary Adjustment Procedure
[04:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	Dear colleagues,
[04:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	Please attend the follow-up General Assembly of the Local Staff Committee The Hague on the Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP):
[04:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[04:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[04:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	The Administration's proposal for the new Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP 2027-2032) is soon to be submitted to the members of the General Consultative Committee (GCC) and will be discussed in the meeting of February 24th. The Administration have admitted that the proposed SAP does not have the maintenance of purchasing power as main objective. Despite the legally questionable grounds, the priority is given to a sustainability 
[04:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	mandate, which appears to be simply fulfilling a desire to save yet more money at the expense of staff, without a proper reason to do so.
[04:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	The impact of such a SAP on staff is severe, encompassing all elements of remuneration, allowances, and pensions. There is also a complete lack of justification; all financial indicators of the EPO are in the green, with pension liabilities more than covered, and the EPO, a not-for-profit organisation, generating record annual surpluses. The RFPSS currently stands at 14.7bn, with 9.7% return in 2025, and the EPOTIF at 5.3bn.
[04:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	The strike of 30th January showed the highest participation rate since the beginning of the Presidents mandate. The Administration is yet to make any more than negligible concessions (see here). The EPO is generally managed by Excel: indicators need to turn red for things to change. This means that if we want to stop the erosion of our employment conditions, revenue and granted patents need to go down and strike and litiga
[04:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	tion numbers need to go up (in the Social Report). The action plan therefore continues with Work-To-Rule and a strike on Monday 23rd of February. You can already register your strike day on MyFips where you usually register annual leave and choose as leave type strike. You may also use the quick link q/StrikeTool Create Request Leave type: Strike.
[04:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	In the General Assembly of 26 January we presented these slides. The General Assembly of 12 February will be a follow-up with updates from the consultation and information on the ongoing actions.
[04:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	Kind regards,
[04:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	Your Local Staff Committee The Hague"
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[06:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kh5de75m
[06:14]		-TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kh5de75m )
[06:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	"taxes
[06:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	death
[06:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	and ibm fudges its accounting
[06:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	no one is surprised and no one is happy about these"
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[13:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/g-125-description-amendments-amicus.html?showComment=1770738875259#c4998576754315323559
[13:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Well, looking at the actual amicus curiae briefs, the No comes not from a small group of patent monopoly attorneys. They mostly come from the applicants, i.e. real users of the system. It is actually mostly patent monopoly attorneys and the office that push for a yes regarding adaptation of the description.<br /><br />And no, it does not necessarily make the a patent monopoly clearer, because by focusing on these"
[13:33]		-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | G 1/25 (description amendments) amicus curiae: The battle lines are drawn - The IPKat
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