Extension of the scope of the flexi-jobs as from 1st July 2024

Context 

As from 1st July 2024, the scope of the flexi-job system will be extended to 2 sectors in the German-speaking Community: official education and members of staff in free education subsidised by the Community, and certain workers and employers in the sport and culture sector.

Extension  

The scope of the flexi-job system is extended:

1° to the administration of the German-speaking Community which is competent for education, with regard to staff members:

• of the official education organised or subsidised by the German-speaking Community whose main activity corresponds to the description of one of the following NACE codes: 85.101, 85.102, 85.103, 85.105, 85.201, 85.202, 85.203, 85.205, 85.311, 85.312, 85.313, 85.321, 85.322, 85.323, 85.325, 85.410, 85.421, 85.591, 85.601 and 85.609, insofar as the latter code relates to central support services for an education network or a representative and coordinating body;
• of the free education subsidised by the German-speaking Community, insofar as it concerns functions for which subsidised staff is generally employed, which is not referred to in the aforementioned Law of 5 December 1968 and where the main activity of the subsidised establishment corresponds to the description of one of the following NACE codes: 85.104, 85.106, 85.204, 85.206, 85.314, 85.324, 85.326, 85.410, 85.422, 85.591, 85.601 and 85.609, insofar as the latter concerns central support services for an education network or a representative and coordinating body.

2° to workers and employers in the sport and culture sector, provided that the employers are not covered by the aforementioned law of 5 December 1968 and that their main activity corresponds to the description of one of the NACE codes 93.1 or 90, and are located in the German-speaking region or depend on the German-speaking Community of Belgium.

Source: Royal Decree of 9 June 2024 amending the Royal Decree of 18 April 2024 implementing Article 2, §1st and 2nd, of the Law of 16 November 2015 containing various provisions on social matters, with regard to the scope of flexi-jobs, Belgian Official Gazette of 17/06/2024.