- the right of domestic workers to be informed of their conditions of employment in an appropriate and understandable manner and where possible through written contract (place of employment, start date and duration of contract, type of work to be performed, remuneration, with method of calculation and periodicity of payments, hours of work, paid annual leave, daily and weekly rest periods, provision of food and accommodation, as applicable, without it being deducted from their wages, terms of repatriation, if applicable and period of notice in case of termination of employment);

92. Notes nevertheless that the EEAS as a new organisation which represents a major European ambition needs to be endowed with sufficient means; in this regard, appropriations for staff remunerations in 2012 need to take into account the actual vacancy rates in the autumn of 2011; calls on the EEAS to exert restraint when it comes to the future creation of high-ranking posts; believes that one way of achieving this could be to replace progressively Seconded National experts posts by permanent posts for Member States' civil servants; notes that Seconded National Experts (SNE) are not counted in the one third of EEAS staff at AD level; ...[+++] nevertheless, recalls the Council decision establishing the organisation and functioning of the EEAS which states that "by the expiry of the contract of an SNE transferred to the EEAS under article 7, the function will be converted into a temporary agent post in cases where the function performed by the SNE corresponds to a function normally carried out by staff at AD level, provided that the necessary post is available under the establishment plan"; moreover, stresses that operational requirements for establishing the EEAS with its own information technology systems in a new building need to be funded;

97. Notes that the EEAS as a new organisation which represents a major European ambition needs to be endowed with sufficient means; in this regard, appropriations for staff remunerations in 2012 need to take into account the actual vacancy rates in the autumn of 2011; calls on the EEAS to exert restraint when it comes to the future creation of high-ranking posts; believes that one way of achieving this could be to replace progressively Seconded National Expert (SNE) posts by permanent posts for Member States' civil servants; notes that SNEs are not counted in the one third of EEAS staff at AD level; nevertheless, recalls the Council ...[+++] decision establishing the organisation and functioning of the EEAS which states that ‘by the date of expiry of the contract of an SNE transferred to the EEAS under Article 7, the relevant function will be converted into a temporary agent post in cases where the function performed by the SNE corresponds to a function normally carried out by staff at AD level, provided that the necessary post is available under the establishment plan’; moreover, stresses that operational requirements for establishing the EEAS with its own information technology systems in a new building need to be funded;

In Iceland too much interest was promised on deposits, which forced the European Union to engage in negotiations with that country to cover the guarantees over and above the interest rates that could be applied under normal market conditions.

The scaling back is a result of reducing weekly rates of pay or income assistance from $500 a week per participant to $413 a week per participant, which is the maximum currently allowable under employment insurance regulations.

In some cases they were not paid at all, in some cases only half the normal rate.