Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP) at the EPO and Why Workers' Salary is Actually Decreasing Each Year (Currency Loses Its Purchasing Power)
THE recent presentation regarding the Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP) was an outline and update on a years-old blunder. The understaffed EPO was subjected to de facto paycuts, or lack of adjustment of salaries to keep up with inflation. So despite seniority or growing experience, salaries would not increase at all, not even a little (at one point it was 0%). That's despite the rules mandating so.
In the General Assembly the following slides were shown:
Despite granting loads of European Patents, including many illegal ones such as European software patents (JUVE now reports that the illegal UPC mostly or primarily deals with these), Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos would not compensate the staff and instead try to replace the staff with scabs. At this point the Office looks exploitative and eager to break the law in pursuit of money or financialization. █