“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears”
Nelson Mandela
Goal setting 2025
The Heart of Staff Rep comments the proposed increase of production for the Goal Setting 2025.
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Relevant Health Matters - Information and Feedback Loop
The Heart of Staff Rep presents a summary of the results regarding different questions raised by staff members on Health matters.
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German International School – Update
The Heart of Staff Rep updates the information on the DISDH after a meeting with VP1.
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German International School (DISDH) – exchanges with the administration on the transitional measures
The Heart of Staff Rep presents the exchanges with the administration on the matter of the exclusion of the German International School (DISDH) from the transitional measures.
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Report on Survey on Fixed Term Contracts
The Heart of Staff Rep presents the report containing the feedback collected from our colleagues who joined the Office on a fixed-term contract.
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Transitional Measures at the German International School DISDH
The Heart of Staff Rep discloses the open letter sent to the administration regarding the exclusion of the DISDH from the transitional measures.
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New Ways of Working - Request an Exception to Circular 419
The Heart of Staff Rep offers a form to request an Exception to the fixed number of days associated with teleworking from abroad or presence at the office.
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New Ways of Working - Report on the results of the short survey
The Heart of Staff Rep presents the report that evaluates the Short Survey on Teleworking.
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GCC DOC 04/2024 - New Ways of Working – Opinion of TH-SR
The Heart of Staff Rep has just released its Opinion on the New Ways of Working, Circular 419 - GCC Document 04/2024. The Heart sent the Opinion to the Administration and the CSC. Additionally, we requested the CSC to add our Opinion as an annex to the Opinion of the CSC members to the GCC.
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New Ways of Working - summary results of the survey and proposal
The Heart of Staff Rep presents the summary results of the short-survey and a proposal for the NWoW discussion.
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TH-SR preliminary proposal for the New Ways of Working discussion
The Heart of Staff Rep has presented its preliminary proposal regarding the upcoming discussions on the working group NWoW
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Information - Health Insurance
The Heart of Staff Rep has released its publication regarding the 100% coverage of the annual gynecological examination.
Please spread the information among our colleagues.
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International Women’s Day
The Heart of Staff Rep marks the International Women’s Day with a publication on how a new EU directive sets rules for information and transparency on gender pay gap.
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Health topics to the GCC-SSPR Guide to Cover
The Heart of Staff Rep gathered information on health topics specific to The Netherlands which need to be integrated in the consultation procedure in the frame of the GCC-SSPR, Guide to Cover.
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TH-SR position regarding the discussion for the New Ways of Working
The Heart of Staff Rep has released its publication expressing its position regarding the upcoming discussions on the working group NWoW
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Topics for the Social Agenda 2024
The Heart of Staff Rep has released its publication regarding topics for the Social Agenda 2024:
Impact study of the financial burden on parents with children attending the crèche and afterschool care
Access to Healthcare services in The Netherlands
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The Heart of Staff Rep has its office space in M06B09
Visit us on the 6th Floor!
Experiencing difficulties with our Healthcare Insurance Provider? Please get in contact with us
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Annual adjustment of young child allowance and education allowance
The Heart of Staff Rep has just released its opinion on the Annual adjustment of young child allowance and education allowance with effect from 1 January 2024.
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Dear colleagues,
The Heart of Staff Rep met with Security & Safety. Read the outcome of our exchange (see below).
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The Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) constitutive meeting took place yesterday, the 4th of July, to elect indirectly the local chair, vice-chair, secretary of the LSCTH, as well as the four full and four alternate members of the Central Staff Committee (CSC).
Two of our list members were candidates for the posts of LSCTH Chair and full member of the CSC. In both voting procedures they achieved an honourable total number of 3 votes from the 16 committee members votes. These 3 votes stemming from The Heart of the Staff Rep (TH-SR) list. Consequently, none of our list members have been elected to any of the posts.
The TH-SR congratulates all the elected and wishes the best of luck in their new roles.
The final results (see below) show an hegemonic internal vote selection favoring monoculture practices.
We know – based on the general election results - that you expected a different composition, the introduction of polyculture and implementation of better practices.
Notwithstanding the outcome of the constitutive meeting we will keep preconizing these best practices when and where we have a stage. TH-SR will keep working with the LSCTH and CSC bodies to the extent we are allowed to participate in the LSCTH environment.
Be assured that TH-SR heard your wish for a change and that we will take your voice further. We will fulfil our mandate and your expectations, with the resources we possess and the ones we will invent.
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Outcome of the LSCTH constitutive meeting
Respecting the will of the electorate
Tomorrow, Tuesday 4 July, the selection for the posts within the Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) will take place through a process of internal voting among the elected staff representatives.
With your votes you gave us – the candidates of The Heart of Staff Rep (TH-SR) - a strong mandate which we are thankfully accepting und committed to fulfil.
In The Hague there are 5 positions within Staff Representation with more representativity (4 CSC full member positions and 1 Local Chair). According to the staff election results, we are ranked in the top 5 and therefore expect to take at least 2 posts corresponding to the representativity of the electoral results.
As it is in the interest of staff to have a diverse staff representation, we expect that all elected candidates will commit to a fair and diverse distribution of the posts, along with the respect for the strong voice of staff.
With six years’ experience in Staff Representation, each of our elected candidate has her/his areas competences, for example in:
- Finances,
- Career System,
- Health and Well-Being,
- Service Regulations,
- New Ways of Working,
and we wish to work together within the Staff Representation towards the best interest of staff.
We are counting with the respect for your vote and reiterate our will to represent you in the positions and areas you have elected us for.
Updates will follow!
The Heart of Staff Rep (TH-SR) thanks all candidates for participating in this election and sends congratulations to all the elected ones.
We also want to thank everyone who voted for us! Your vote means a lot—not just for us, but for the entire staff at the Office.
There is the hope that seeing how much support we received will encourage more people to run their own independent campaigns in future elections.
An important aspect of these elections is the high participation rate (69%), which shows increased staff involvement. It demonstrates that TH-SR proposals and campaign has aroused the interest of staff in staff rep elections thereby contributing to a high participation of staff. It also indicates that the list TH-SR gave voice to staff that didn't feel represented before, resulting in a broader and more diverse representation.
The high participation rate alone, would be enough reason to celebrate the achievement of TH-SR list, but we also managed to elect most of our candidates.
There were many challenges along the way—we had no support by a union and faced several obstacles. In spite of that, we elected three candidates to the Staff Representation, two in the highest ranking! The electorate gave us a strong mandate to take positions of responsibility within the Staff Representation. We can only be thankful to all of you who voted for us!
Keep supporting The Heart of Staff Rep and stay tuned!
Congratulations
Proposal to the next Staff Representation Committee
Exercising transparency and accountability, by
Registering individual contributions of staff representatives,
Registering directions of vote of staff representatives,
Regularly publishing the above data to inform staff.
