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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.
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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.
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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.
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Taxation
Social security

Announced flash controls in the transport sector (November 2024)

17 October 2024
Announced flash controls in the transport sector (November 2024)
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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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Training

What is the status of the Federal learning account (FLA)?

15 October 2024
Discover the current status of the Federal Learning Account (FLA) and what it means for employers and employees. Since its launch this spring, the action plan has been adjusted several times. Read more about the obligations, scope, and future of the FLA.
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Absences
Employment contract
Social security

First carry-over of statutory leave days end of December: what employers need to know

14 October 2024
At the end of 2024, the new rules on the carry-over of statutory leave days for up to 2 years will be applied for the first time. Below, we briefly list what employers need to know about this.
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Employment contract

Sex work: new legislation from 1st December 2024

09 October 2024
A law of 3 May 2024 stipulates the conditions for the employment of sex workers in the framework of an employment contract. Those new provisions have come into force on 1st December 2024.
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Taxation
Salary Optimization

Exemption of withholding tax for young workers (2024)

08 October 2024
The wages of certain young workers are exempted from withholding tax in the fourth quarter of 2024.
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Employment contract

Exemption from advance payment of withholding tax for shift work: clarity on customer-user agreement

08 October 2024
Since 1 October 2022, temporary employment agencies may only apply the exemptions for shift or night work, continuous work, system navigation and shift work in construction works to the wages of temporary agency workers if the customer-user has explicitly agreed to this.
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Absences

Collective closure in 2025:communicate the date before 1 January 2025!

07 October 2024
Leave dates within a company can be set either individually by means of an agreement between the employer and each employee or collectively in case of a closure of the company. In this case, the collective closure period must be communicated to your employees by 31 December 2024 at the latest!
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Taxation
Salary Optimization
Social security

National flash control in the hairdressing sector in the week of 14 to 20 October 2024

03 October 2024
The ONEm/RVA will conduct a national flash control in the hairdressing sector during the week of 14 to 20 October 2024. These controls are part of the action plan against social fraud, drawn up by the Service d'information et de recherche sociale/Sociale Inlichtingen- en Opsporingsdienst.
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