• 21 March 2024

    Switch to summer time: how should shift workers be paid?

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    On Sunday 31 March 2024, we will switch to summer time, which means setting our clocks forward one hour. This switch to summer time can pose difficulties for calculating the remuneration of certain categories of workers.
  • 12 June 2023

    System of unemployment with corporate allowance: 2023

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    Each year the Belgian National Labour Council determines, in pursuance of the collective bargaining agreement No 17, whether the corporate allowances and the reference wage threshold for the RCC/SWT must be adjusted with a coefficient based on the evolution of the conventional wages.
  • 28 July 2023

    Target group reduction recent sustained work experience (Flanders)

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    As of 1 October 2023, a new target group reduction will be introduced in Flanders for persons without recent, sustained work experience.
  • 27 May 2024

    Target group reductions in Flanders from 1 July 2024

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    Target group reductions in Flanders from 1 July 2024
  • 12 June 2023

    Temporary unemployment due to force majeure 2022: officially treated as days actually worked for annual leave 2023

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    As announced in a previous Infoflash, the government has come to an agreement: for the calculation of the holiday pay and holiday duration for 2023, the days of temporary unemployment due to force majeure in the first six months of 2022 will be treated as days actually worked.
  • 24 November 2023

    Temporary unemployment: additional supplement at the employer’s expense from 1 January 2024

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    If you make an employee temporarily unemployed, you will have to pay him/her, from 1 January 2024, in addition to the existing supplement(s), an amount of EUR 5 per day of unemployment, unless a subsistence security fund takes care of that payment.
  • 02 November 2023

    The purchasing power bonus: frequently asked questions

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    The tool of the purchasing power bonus continues to appeal to the imagination. There are already several sectors and employers that will award this bonus.
  • 17 August 2023

    The qualifying work-based learning and apprenticeship premiums

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

    The recovery hours are back

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    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.
  • 25 October 2023

    Training, information sessions, webinars, and events by Partena Professional

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    Of u nu ondernemer, accountant of HR-medewerker bent, onze kleine workshops en grotere infosessies houden u up-to-date en geven u concrete tips om meteen toe te passen.  Bekijk het aanbod hieronder en schrijf u snel in. Het aantal plaatsen is beperkt.