Bonum Certa Men Certa

Insufficient Time for Staff of the European Patent Office to Comment on Managers' Proposals

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Summary: The rogue management at Europe's second-largest institution is not tolerating dissent; it does not listen or does not facilitate input from staff that does all the actual work (except a token or a box-ticking exercise to give the mere illusion of participation by staff)

The Central Staff Committee (CSC) of the EPO is once again complaining about António Campinos, 'brainchild' of Benoît Battistelli, who literally referred to himself as "the f***ing president".



Here's the latest communication with staff.

Zentraler Personalausschuss Central Staff Committee Le Comité Central du Personnel

Munich, 16/12/2022

sc22148cp

Report on the GCC meeting of 22 November 2022

Dear Colleagues,

There were fourteen (!) documents on the official agenda. Of particular impact on staff were the documents on:

● Adjustment with effect from 1 January 2023 of salaries and other elements of the remuneration of employees of the EPO and of pensions paid by the Office (CA/74/22; GCC/DOC 19/2022); ● Adjustments to the health services (CA/85/22; GCC/DOC 27/2022), which we requested to withdraw, in vain; ● Flexibilisation of parental leave (CA/87/22) & amendments to Circular 22 (GCC/DOC 28/2022); ● Adjustment in medical coverage for children beyond 18 years (CA/92/22; GCC/DOC 29/2022).

The President had scheduled two hours (!) for the meeting. He agreed to our request for additional time. The meeting lasted about 3,5 hours, which was too short, as usual.

For the second time, the President was absent and delegated the chairmanship to Vice-President DG5. He announced that he would personally chair the next GCC meeting on 16 December 2022.

We provided the President and the GCC members with a written and reasoned opinion on all documents submitted (see annexes).

The Central Staff Committee


The full publication is available in the "Report on the GCC meeting of 22 November 2022" [PDF] and it is discussed in the video above. It is very long (nearly 50 pages).

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