Right to disconnect: deadline postponed by three months!

Author: Catherine Mairy (Legal expert)
Read time: 2min
Publication date: 30/11/2022 - 07:44
Latest update: 30/11/2022 - 07:45

The FPS Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue announces the following on its website: "three-month postponement in practice to reach an agreement on the right to disconnect".

As a reminder, the right to disconnect must be established, in the companies concerned, in a company-level collective bargaining agreement (CBA) or, failing that, in a provision in the employment regulations.

On the basis of the labour deal, depositing the company CBA at the Clerk's office (Directorate General Collective Labour Relations) or communicating the amendment to the employment regulations to the directorate of the social legislation inspectorate must have taken place by 1 January 2023 at the latest.

In practice, however, the administration will apply a postponement of three months for completing these formalities.

In other words, depositing the company CBA or communicating the amendment to the employment regulations must take place before 1 April 2023.

Do you need help or wish to obtain a model on the right to disconnect (company CBA or appendix to the employment regulations)? Then you can contact our Legal Partners via legalpartners@partena.be.

Source: www.emploi.belgique.be.

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