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Employment contract

Student quota 2025: where do we stand?

20 November 2024
The year 2025 is fast approaching, and with it the question of the student quota. Students could temporarily work up to 600 hours a year in 2023 and 2024 in the framework of a student contract. Has the 600 hours limit been extended?
Employment contract

Sex work: clarification regarding employer certification

19 November 2024
A law of 3d May 2024 stipulates the conditions for the employment of sex workers in the framework of an employment contract.
Mobility
Social security

Company vehicles - NSSO: the CO2 contribution on 1 January 2025

12 November 2024
As of 1 January 2025, the formula for calculating the solidarity contribution payable by employers on company vehicles will be adapted shortly.
Employment contract

Extra-contractual liability of employees: modification as from 1st January 2025

12 November 2024
An Act of 7 February 2024 amends certain rules on extra-contractual civil liability.
Absences

New procedure for payment of rest days in lieu in the construction sector (JC 124)!

12 November 2024
Until last year, payment of rest days in lieu in the construction sector was in principle based on a certificate the employer provided to the manual worker. However, if the manual worker was no longer employed, he received the certificate through Constructiv.
Working conditions

Temporary unemployment: electronic version of C3.2A compulsory from 1st January 2025

12 November 2024
From 1st January 2025, workers made temporarily unemployed will have to use the electronic version of the C3.2A control form, also known as “eC3.2”.
Salary Optimization

Respect the minimum remuneration under the ‘Parcel Delivery Act’

05 November 2024
The introduction of the so-called Parcel Delivery Act aims to improve working conditions for couriers (parcel delivery workers). It also seeks to establish sustainable competition between postal service providers operating in the parcel delivery sector.
Taxation
Salary Optimization
Mobility

Making a company bicycle available: administrative changes ahead!

05 November 2024
Since the 2024 income year, there are changes if you make company bicycles available to your employees or company directors. From now on, you will have to mention the value of this bicycle benefit on the tax form.
Training

Registration obligation for the Federal learning account (FLA) postponed?

25 October 2024
The amendment provides for a postponement of the deadline for the registration obligation of training courses and training rights to 1 April 2025.
Salary Optimization
Working conditions

Change to winter time: how should shift workers be paid?

17 October 2024
On Sunday, October 27, 2024, we will switch to winter time, which means that we must set our clocks back an hour (at 3 a.m. it will actually be 2 a.m.). This change to winter time can pose difficulties for calculating the remuneration of certain categories of workers.
Taxation
Social security

Announced flash controls in the transport sector (November 2024)

17 October 2024
Announced flash controls in the transport sector (November 2024)
Taxation
Social dialogue

End of extension of the exemption from NSSO contributions for pensioners working in the care sector

16 October 2024
Since 1st July 2022, pensioners working in the care sector have been entitled to an exemption of personal NSSO contributions for their performances in that sector. The NSSO has announced on its website that this measure will not be extended beyond 30 September 2024.

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