Posted on 11/19/2013 5:22:38 PM PST by Olog-hai
EU governments were entitled to strike down a 1.7 percent pay rise for EU staff during the economic crisis, the bloc’s top court ruled Tuesday (19 November.)
The Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice (ECJ) backed a decision by governments to reject the salary hike to 2011 wages proposed by the European Commission.
Under the EU’s staff regulations, the European Commission made an annual proposal on officials’ pay and pensions to governments. …
However, the court found that governments were within their rights in 2011 to invoke the “crisis clause” in the regulations allowing them to override the “method” in the event of a recession hitting the EU economy. …
(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...
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