EU civil servants are stressing as a review of their bloated bureaucracy threatens to bring life-terms in cushty jobs to an end. Chance would be a fine thing…
Catherine Day, former Secretary-General of the European Commission, was appointed last year to lead a ‘large-scale review of the European Commission’ to be deliverd next year. She said this week that the executive branch should re-engineer its hiring practices:
“We definitely have to look at increasing the speed of recruiting the right kind of people, but also recruiting different talents, and maybe not for lifetime employment.”
There are 32,000 civil servants working in the Commission and 78.8% of them are over 40. Many are hired on contracts that last until retirement, some for upwards of €25,000 a month. Civil servants told Politico indefinite contract holders are currently “more worried about losing some of their benefits or employer contributions.” The Commission would sooner let phone manufacturers choose what chargers to sell (impossible) than they would cut benefits for themselves and their staff…
