Coronavirus: Partena Professional, more than ever at your side!

The list of the affected sectors has finally been published in the Belgian Official Gazette, with some last-minute adjustments.  

The government has taken various measures to be able to employ as many people as possible in the vital sectors.  Some of these measures have now been extended until 31 October. 

Since the start of the new school year, the number of classes or schools that have to close as a result of coronavirus cases at school has increased sharply.

On Monday 14 September, the social partners reached an important agreement within the National Labour Council on a series of issues related to the coronacrisis.

There is an extension of the period of application of frontier workers' contracts with the neighbouring countries of the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany and France.

The ONEm/RVA has published a new instruction for the extension of flexible corona unemployment until 31 December. 

Companies may, under the (relaxed) transitional regime, make their manual workers temporarily unemployed due to lack of work for economic reasons.

The Minister of Work has published the list of sectors that can resort to the flexible unemployment corona until 31 December 2020. 

As of August 24, there is a registration obligation for those who employ foreign workers in the construction, cleaning, agriculture, horticulture or meat processing sectors.

You will thus have all the required social and tax exemption conditions in this document concerning the consumption vouchers.