Category: Press Info

ECB staff survey: favoritism, job insecurity and low trust in ECB President and Executive Board

A recent staff survey conducted by IPSO at the European Central Bank (ECB) highlights significant dissatisfaction and concerns among employees. The survey, launched in February 2025, gathered responses from 1,425 ECB staff members and provides valuable insights into the current work environment, recruitment processes, career progression mechanisms and trust in ECB leadership. Many respondents believe…
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30. April 2025 0

IPSO protests against Christine Lagarde’s retaliation move

The ECB has developped a plan targetting ECB staff representation. The main move is to reduce the time that Staff Representatives could spend on their staff representation duties. It also prevent that Elected Board members of IPSO could be also active members of the ECB Staff Committee (e.g. ECB Workscouncil), by forbiding that time dispensation…
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21. February 2025 0

IPSO expresses its solidarity with the victims of the attack on a ver.di demonstration in Munich

Dear colleagues at ver.di, We at the ECB union IPSO were deeply shocked to hear about the terrible incident at your demonstration in downtown Munich, where a driver intentionally drove into the crowd.  Our sympathies go out to all those injured in this tragic event. We sincerely hope for the swift and full recovery of…
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15. February 2025 0

Workers’ rights in EU organisations: a podcast

Researchers from the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt are investigating labour relations in supranational organisations, including the ECB. A podcast by the Hans Böckler Foundation discusses initial findings and ways of improving the legal situation for employees. Legally free spaces Even if the situation for employees in different organisations differs in…
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6. August 2024 0

ECB ignores EU law on physical  security issues

A report on tagesschau.de on 25 November 2023 disclosed that there had been major problems with the electricity installation in the Main Building, which also impacted the life security systems.  The report was based on a TÜV report of 2018 and an ECB project report of 2022. The project was started in 2018 to remedy…
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14. December 2023 0

Blowing the whistle against ECB´s wage moderation stance

We reproduce below a message that was circulated by IPSO to all ECB staff on 7 of March 2023 ECB´s wage moderation stance is causing serious prejudice to European workers without being economically founded. The latest analysis provided by Reuters is one among many other pieces of evidence indicating a change of approach is needed.…
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12. March 2023 0

IPSO Seminar with Michael Kosinski

On 22 June 2021, during a Webinar organised by IPSO, The Trade Union of the European Central Bank, Professor Michael Kosinski, who has become internationally recognised for his innovative approach in the fields of Computational Social Science, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, presented and discussed with ECB staff members his views and insights into the use of big…
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24. June 2021 0

New Anonymous Forum for ECB Staff launched

IPSO announced the launch of the New Anonymous Forum for ECB Staff on 17 March 2021. Having the opportunity to express yourself freely on how you feel about the ECB is important, especially in times of the pandemic for ECB Staff. This is why IPSO established an independent platform which is restricted to those who…
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17. March 2021 0

European Parliament calls for strengthening ECB’s whistle-blower protection and for publication of data on staff composition at ECB, two long-standing IPSO requests

In its resolution of 10 February 2021 on the ECB’s 2020 Annual Report, two of the European Parliament’s calls on the ECB are aligned with two of IPSO’s long-standing requests: To adapt the ECB’s whistleblowing policy and Staff Rules to further protect whistle-blowers, and to enable them to report concerns without fear of retaliation, all…
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22. February 2021 0

Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy in the context of COVID 19 – IPSOpinion with Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz

During the webinar on 18 December 2020 Professor Stiglitz expressed his opinion on Rewriting the rules of the European Economy. IPSO is extending its ongoing series of high-level events on discussing the outcomes of the Covid-19 pandemic. A former professor at Princeton, Oxford, Stanford and Yale universities, Joseph E. Stiglitz also served as vice president and chief…
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21. December 2020 0

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