This Coming Thursday EPO Staff Meets Online to Discuss the Salaries Going Down While Stoned Managers Increase Their Own
Last month: Is the Second-Largest Institution in Europe (EPO) Gradually Becoming More Like a Sweatshop? (similar to and connected to the largest one)
The people who do all the work at the EPO are getting the short end of the stick and are expected to see their compensation going down relative to inflation and other factors. This coming week there's a meeting about it and they're tabling the issue for formal discussion at the General Consultative Committee (GCC), scheduled for 8 days from now.
In Munich (where staff is represented by SUEPO and the Local Staff Committee Munich), a flyer was made to publicise this:
It's dated 4 days ago, accompanied by the following message:
After 6 years of application of the salary adjustment procedure introduced in 2020, the on-going review reveals that the evolution of salaries of EPO staff in Germany lags in percentage points (pp.):
-4.2 pp. behind national inflation,
-6.8 pp. behind the increase in costs of living in Munich,
-7.0 pp. behind the Coordinated Organisations,
-7.7 pp. behind the European Union institutions
It is not a cut, it is a supercut
In the meeting, we will propose a template email that each staff member can send to the President.
Agenda
Salary Erosion Procedure: How much we lost since 2020
Join us online and ask your questions.
The Local Staff Committee The Hague has also made a publication about this:
Staff Committee The Hague
Comité du personnel de La Haye
Personalausschuss Den HaagRijswijk, 6 November 2025
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Online information session about where we stand and what comes next
Dear colleagues,
We invite all staff in The Hague to a presentation on the outcome of this year’s Annual Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP) and a review of the current method’s application over the past six years.
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Over the past six years, the present SAP, introduced with the claim that it would cut 2 billion euros from our salaries and pensions, has progressively eroded our purchasing power – in real terms and by every comparison: against national inflation, national civil service benchmarks, and even our counterparts in EU institutions and the Coordinated Organisations. The results for this year, the final year in which the current SAP is planned to be in force, allow us to see how much has been cut over the full 6-year period of application, and that it was even more than the administration intended!
-6.8 pp. behind national Dutch inflation,
-6.8 pp. behind the national civil servants in the Netherlands,
-4.8 pp. behind the Coordinated Organisations,
-6.3 pp. behind the European Union institutions
With the SAP method due for reform and the related discussions happening in the coming months, it is essential that staff understand what has happened, why it matters, and what is at stake. A well-informed and engaged staff body will be crucial in us strongly opposing that any new method further diminishes our salaries and pensions.
Your participation and awareness are key. This is not just a technical exercise – it affects all of us and our families, throughout the full duration of our careers and our retirement.
We look forward to seeing you there and to a constructive exchange.
Your Local Staff Committee The Hague
Some time very soon we'll carry on discussing how the spokesperson of Europe's second-largest institution (the EPO) is still a cocaine user. The management of the EPO is not just corrupt; it's also literally on drugs, hard drugs. █