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The national flash controls in the green sectors (JCs 144, 145 and 132), namely the agricultural, horticultural and technical agricultural and horticultural sectors, will continue in the month of October 2023.

In Flanders, the commuting fund (Pendelfonds) regularly launches calls for projects to subsidise more sustainable mobility. From 18 September until 18 October 2023, companies can submit a project to obtain a subsidy of up to 200,000 € per company.

To encourage workers on long-term disability to return to work, the health insurance fund pays a €1,000 bonus to employers who employ a worker for at least 3 months in an activity authorised by the health insurance fund.

On 1 September 2023, 2 new premiums for work-based learning will enter into force in Flanders.

A draft law adopted by the House on 13 July aims to allow employees who fall ill during their holidays to benefit from guaranteed pay and to carry over their days of leave to the end of their incapacity or at a later date.

A law amending the various anti-discrimination laws has just been published in the Belgian Official Gazette.

Following the 2023-2024 interprofessional agreement, recovery hours were reintroduced. From July 2023 to June 2025, it will again be possible to work 120 additional voluntary overtime hours, also known as ‘recovery hours’. In principle, these hours are exempt from a social and tax point of view.

During the month of August 2023, the social inspection services will carry out national flash controls in the cleaning sector (JC 121).

From 1 August 2023, it will be possible to enter into a company collective bargaining agreement that provides for the payment of compensation in lieu of the provision and maintenance of work clothing. Previously, only an sector collective bargaining agreement could provide for this compensation.

The possibility for employees holding the office of mayor to take political leave has been extended to new situations.