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We enter summer time on Sunday, 26 March 2023. This means putting the clocks forward an hour (at 2 am it will actually be 3 am).
The change to summer time can create problems in calculating the pay of some categories of worker.
Collective Agreement No. 30 of 28.03.1977 concluded in the National Labour Council governs the problem of calculating the pay of shift workers who are not paid on a monthly flat rate basis.
The broad principles of the Collective Agreement are.
This is because payment of a normal work day’s pay for 7 hours of actual work or less (being done when the clocks go forward on 26 March 2023) is to be seen as including an advance payment of the "extra work" that will be done when the clocks go back to winter time in the night of Saturday to Sunday, 29 October 2023.
A firm works a 3 shift system (A, B and C), each shift working an 8-hour day.
Shift B will be the night shift when the clocks go forward for summer time (the night of Saturday to Sunday, 26 March 2023). They will therefore have been employed for 7 hours, but will be paid for 8 hours’ work.
There are two possibilities when the clocks go back to winter time:
Night shift on the two "time changes"
Number of hours paid on the change to summer time (for 7 hours’ actual work)
Number of hours paid on the change to winter time (for 9 hours’ actual work)
Same shift
8
Different shift
9
Source: Collective Agreement No. 30 of 28 March 1977 on the problems of payment to certain workers for the changes to summer and winter time, made mandatory by Royal Decree of 16 July 1998, Moniteur belge 11 August 1998.
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