Socio-legal news from infoflashes

On 12 January 2021, another ministerial decree that changes the rules for foreign employees was published. In this infoflash we discuss some of the new measures:

Each year the Belgian National Labour Council determines, in pursuance of the collective bargaining agreement No 17, whether the corporate allowances and the reference wage threshold for the RCC/SW

The adjustments of the wages for January 2021 are available.

Employees returning from a business trip in a red zone certified by their employer may be exempted from quarantine if a check of the ‘Passenger Locator Form’ and the self-assessment questionnaire i

From 1 January 2021 onwards, it will no longer be possible for certain categories of employees between 55 and 59 years of age to receive interruption benefits from the ONEm/RVA under an 'end o

In response to the health crisis, the Brussels-Capital Region has decided to create a new employment aid scheme for employers who hire jobseekers from Brussels.

Employees have the possibility, under certain conditions, to temporarily suspend their career break or to work for another employer during a period of career break.

The National Labour Council has adopted a revaluation coefficient of 1.0032, which applies to the additional allowances referred to in Collective Agreement No. 46.

Pensioners may carry on an occupation, but the resulting income may not exceed certain thresholds, otherwise pension benefits will be lost.

Days of temporary unemployment due to force majeure caused by the coronavirus shall be assimilated to time worked for entitlement to annual leave during the period from 1 September to 31 December 2

An amendment was made to the law allowing an employee to remain absent from work in order to take care of his child whose institution (school, day-care centre, disability day-care centre) is closed

Since 31 December 2020, anyone returning to Belgium after a stay of at least 48 hours in a red zone must quarantine.