● 06.19.23
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●● The EPO’s NO-Career System Will be Scrutinised by a Tribunal, the ILOAT, 3 Weeks From Now
Posted in Europe, Patents at 7:17 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video download link | md5sum 6e6b6b17f5c1bef3c93e2527bbb20998The GCC Report of EPO Staff Reps Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/summer-2023-epo-gcc-report.webm
Summary: The Central Staff Committee at the EPO protests proposals from António Campinos and his cronies; it asserts that “the [management of the] Office does not want to question the New Career System [a NO-Career System now, as the ILOAT will deliver in public the judgments of its 136th session on Friday 7 July 2023, including three important cases relating to the EPO’s New Career System.” As a reminder, sometimes it takes ILOAT nearly a decade to strike down illegal regulations (more than 3 years — not 3 weeks — after the culprit, Benoît Battistelli, had already left the Office)
THERE will be some interesting news in a few weeks because the EPO, which grants European software patents (illegally) and then passes such patents for a kangaroo ‘court’ to judge (an illegal ‘court’ where 3 judges resigned before it even started!), will be judged by a court that it does not quite control, the ILOAT, but a court that sometimes take a decade to issue much-needed rulings.
“Sure, the EPO’s management has a long history of disregarding or not obeying judges’ decisions (or only pretending to a long time later), but that’s a scandal in its own right.”
The latest document is half a dozen pages long. It’s discussed in passing in the video above,
The Central Staff Committee’s report on the GCC meeting of 1 June 2023 with annexes [PDF] was summarised as follows in a message to colleagues who had elected the Committee:
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Dear colleagues,
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The GCC agenda was as follows:
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Periodical Review of the Service Regulations GCC/DOC 11/2023
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Public Holidays 2024 GCC/DOC 12/2023
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Introduction of a strategic bonus to reward achievement during current year GCC/DOC 13/2023
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Healthcare Insurance figures 2022 GCC/DOC 14/2023
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The first three documents were “for consultation”, the last one “for information”. We wrote reasoned opinions on the first three documents. They are appended to this full report.
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Document GCC/DOC 13/2023 introducing yet another type of non-pensionable bonus is problematic:It signals the Office’s focus on short-term contributions to management projects rather than on fulfilling the long-term core mission of the Office (which must be rewarded with pensionable promotions and step advancements).It looks very much like improvising a new rule in the middle of the game, in addition to the rules announced in the Guidelines on Rewards for 2023.In future, it will give staff opportunities twice a year to wonder why they (did not) receive a bonus, or yet another bonus. We doubt that this will contribute to social and legal peace.
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We understand that the Office does not want to question the New Career System now, as the ILOAT will deliver in public the judgments of its 136th session on Friday 7 July 2023, including three important cases relating to the EPO’s New Career System. However, we expect a system in the future that shows that the Office is willing to invest in the long-term careers of its staff.
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The Central Staff Committee – CSC
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So some time next month we’ll be able to write about the outcome from Geneva regarding the EPO’s NO-Career System. We don’t suppose the media will mention this (in the video I mention one blog that might mention it because of a pair of people in it), but rulings from a tribunal cannot be easily brushed aside. Sure, the EPO’s management has a long history of disregarding or not obeying judges’ decisions (or only pretending to a long time later), but that’s a scandal in its own right. █
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