Category: News

The Autumn 2023 Bulletin (#65) has just been published. You can view it on your screen by following this link. Happy reading!

Dear Members

We would like to inform you that the Annual Information Meeting of the Pension Fund will take place on

26 October 2023 from 2.30 pm to 3:30 pm in the CERN Council Chamber.

The meeting will also be broadcasted via a webcast accessible to all by following the link: https://webcast.web.cern.ch/event/i1327056

Questions can also be sent  in advance of the meeting, by Monday 23 October at the latest,  by e-mail to pension-fund@cern.ch .

Dear Members

After the Summer break, our information sessions will resume on 29 August 2023 from 1:30 to 4:00 pm in the Staff Association room, Building 61.

Best regards

Jean-François Michaud and Susan Leech O’Neale

Dear Members

Further information on the reasons for the concerted work stoppage launched by the CERN Staff Association on 2 June 2023 can be found in the ECHO Bulletin No 23 of 5 June.

Here you can find the the latest bulletin(64) that was released today.

Dear GAC-EPA members,

Following a request from the CERN Staff Association, you are invited to join the CERN personnel on Friday 2 June from 1.30 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.  in the lobby of the main building; this concerns the lack of consultation and agreement, particularly on matters relating to human resources and personnel policy.

For more information, please see the following information.

Sincerely,

Enrico Chiaveri for the GAC-EPA Committee

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Enough is enough!

Dear Colleagues,

The Staff Council has unanimously decided to give notice of a concerted work stoppage on Friday 2 June from 1.30 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. with an assembly of the personnel in the hall of the main building for the following reasons:

• The Staff Council deplores the lack of any real progress on the Association’s package of measures*, whereas the crisis levy has been implemented since January 2023.
• The Staff Council is outraged by the absence of concertation or even simple discussion from the stage at which the Management’s strategic choices are drawn up, particularly when these have consequences for human resources and members of the personnel policy.
• The Staff Council expresses its concern that no agreement has been reached between the Member States regarding the payment of additional exceptional contributions, despite the fact that this is inseparable from the crisis levy which has already been in place since January 2023.

In accordance with the applicable rules, the period of notice shall be utilized to attempt to settle the dispute by conciliation at the level of the SCC which will take place today at 5.00 p.m. If this has a successful outcome, the concerted work stoppage will be withdrawn. Only the gathering of  the personnel will be maintained.

Come and join us in the hall of the main building to learn more about the crisis.

* Namely: partial internal taxation of pensions, study of various proposals from members of the personnel to identify savings, postponement of the construction of new tertiary buildings and measures to encourage voluntary retirement departure.

 

Staff Association

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Today the 7th of Mai, the new website of the GAC-EPA has gone ‘live’.

This site is based on a modern Content Management System (CMS).

Our objective was to keep it as simple and close to the standard as possible to assure maintainability, continuity and minimal effort from contributors and ‘technical support’.

The goal is to assure effectiveness and ease of use.

You can still access the old website by following this link.

CERN has issued on 29 March the official news concerning the exchange rate to be applied for tax returns in France (2022 income).

1 CHF = 0.99 Euros

The next General Assembly will take place Tuesday the 28th of March as of 15:00 in the Bdg. 500, Main Auditorium

Convocation

https://www.gac-epa.org/Communications/AGMs/2023-03-28-AGM-EGM/Convocation-AGM-en.html