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Social dialogue

2024 Social Elections: operational rules and areas of competence of the WC and the CPPW

28 May 2024
It can sometimes be complicated to understand the operational rules and areas of competence of the consultation bodies
Salary Optimization
Mobility
Social security

Target group reductions in Flanders from 1 July 2024

27 May 2024
Target group reductions in Flanders from 1 July 2024
Absences

Elections on 9 June 2024: can your employee take leave if elected?

23 May 2024
Employees elected on 9 June 2024 may be granted political leave under certain conditions
Salary Optimization
Grants

Wallonia: a subsidy to finance a place in a childcare centre in 2024

22 May 2024
Finding a place in a childcare centre may be a challenge for expectant parents. As an employer, you can finance the creation of places in a childcare centre. In Wallonia, a pilot project provides a subsidy of 4,000 € per place in a childcare centre.
Absences

Elections on 9 June 2024: can your employee be absent from work if he is an assessor?

21 May 2024
Employees who work on Sunday 9 June 2024 are entitled to be absent from work if they carry out certain electoral duties
Social dialogue

2024 Social elections: drawing up of the internal rules of the WC/CPPW

15 May 2024
To work validly, each works council and each committee for prevention and protection at work must dispose of their (own) internal rules.
Social dialogue

2024 Social elections: appeal and first meeting of the WC/CPPW

13 May 2024
In principle, the first meeting of the works council and/or the committee for prevention and protection at work takes place on the days following the social elections.
Absences

Elections on 9 June 2024: can your employee be absent from work to vote?

13 May 2024
Employees who work on Sunday 9 June 2024 are not exempt from voting, as voting is compulsory in Belgium.
Taxation

Partial exemption from payment of withholding tax for shift work: “bis variant”

07 May 2024
The “shift work” exemption applies to shifts performing the same work. The government envisaged a more flexible bis variant.
Salary Optimization

Unemployment with company supplement: new amounts as of May 2024

07 May 2024
The central index was exceeded in April 2024. As a result, certain social benefits will be indexed by 2% in May 2024. This has an impact on the company supplements paid in the context of unemployment schemes with company supplements (RCC/SWT).
Taxation
Salary Optimization
Mobility
Social security

The work bonus as from 1 May 2024

06 May 2024
The 'work bonus' is a reduction of personal social security contributions paid by the worker. The amounts of this reduction were indexed on 1 May 2024.
Employment contract

Limitation of the scope of flexi-jobs from 1 April 2024

02 May 2024
On 1 April 2024, four sectors in which the flexi-job system had recently been authorized (on 1 January 2024) either fully or partially “exit” the system. Meanwhile, other employers will re-enter the system.

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