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The Flemish government has recently changed the conditions for the Flemish recruitment incentive for long-term job-seekers. Below is a brief overview of what has changed.
These are the changes that have recently been made with regard to the recruitment incentive:
The Flemish Region pays a recruitment incentive for every employee who:
In order to determine the two-year period of registration as an unemployed job-seeker, some periods are equated to a registration as an unemployed job-seeker. You will find these equated periods on the website of the Flemish government.
The incentive is paid out in two instalments: € 1,250.00 after 3 months of employment and € 3,000.00 after twelve months of employment. In case of part-time employment the basic amounts are modified:
In companies which have lower economic activity due to the coronacrisis, it is possible that the employment fraction is lower than before. As a result, the employer may receive a lower recruitment incentive for reasons beyond his control. The Decree of the Flemish Government of 27 March 2020 provides for the possibility for the department to take into account during this period the employment break as applicable before 13 March 2020.
Employers who wish to make use of this possibility, should contact the department via awi@vlaanderen.be
On requesting the incentive, the employer must certify certain information.
Afterwards the conditions, such as duration and volume of employment are electronically followed up through an exchange of data with the National Social Security Office (dimona and dmfa).
When the contract of employment ends within the first three or twelve months respectively, the instalment of the incentive can still be paid out if the company proves that the contract was terminated:
The employer must request the incentive within three months after hiring (expiry period!) a potential entitled party, via the online application of the VDAB.
By way of derogation from this deadline, companies must submit an application for the recruitment incentive by 1 September 2020 at the latest for the recruitment of 55 year olds during the period from 1 January 2020 to 31 May 2020.
This can be done online via https://www.vlaanderen.be/aanwervingsincentive-voor-langdurig-werkzoekenden/aanwervingsincentive-langdurig-werkzoekenden-aanvragen
Sources:
[1] For recruitments before 1 January 2020, this condition was: every employee recruited on 1 January 2017 at the earliest and on 31 December 2019 at the latest and who is at least 25 and at most 54 at the end of the recruitment quarter;
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