09/06/2015

de Volkskrant, "Octrooibureau zet detectives in tegen eigen medewerkers"

De Volkskrant(printable version) reports on the information that the EPO has commissioned the company Control Risks to investigate elected representatives of the Staff Committee and/or Staff Union.

This is the "the latest weapon to be added to EPOrg president Benoît Battistelli’s reign of terror" where "systematic investigations are being carried out on employees known to be active within unions orthose who have been chosen as staff representatives."

Translations in English, French and German are available by scrolling through the document.The article was also published in the paper version of 5 June 2015.