• 20 December 2023

    Attachments and assignments limits in 2024

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    The amounts (or income limits) for the calculation of the attachable or assignable portion of earnings for 2024 have been published in the Moniteur Belge
  • 16 October 2023

    Notice periods of resigning workers employed before 2014: changes from 28 October!

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    The law providing for new notice periods in case of resignation will enter into force on 28 October 2023. It stipulates that the notice period in case of resignation may never exceed 13 weeks for all workers.
  • 02 November 2023

    Allowances for night work: November 2023

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    The threshold index for the public sector and the social benefits has been exceeded in October 2023. Consequently, several allowances, such as the allowances for night work, have been indexed with 2% in November 2023.
  • 12 December 2023

    Extension final payment date purchasing power bonus until 31 March 2024

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    The final payment date of the purchasing power bonus is extended by 3 months until 31 March 2024.
  • 04 March 2024

    French border workers: documents to be submitted by 31 March 2024

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    Employers who have employed French border workers in Belgium must on-line submit or send specific documents relating to the income for 2023 to the scanning centre of the FPS Finance by 31 March 2024.
  • 02 October 2023

    Purchasing power bonus mandatory in your sector?

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    What is a purchasing power bonus? Below you will find all the information you need and you will be able to find out whether you are obliged to award this bonus.
  • 30 January 2024

    Additional supplement in the event of temporary unemployment: clarification

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    Since 1 January 2024, temporarily unemployed employees are entitled to an additional supplement.
  • 13 November 2018

    100 "voluntary & negotiated" overtime hours

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    Each year a worker can voluntarily work 100 overtime hours. (A sectoral collective bargaining agreement may increase this limit to 360 hours). Both the employer and the worker must agree, but the worker is supposed to take the initiative. A. When and how these overtime hours can be worked?
  • 13 February 2024

    New requirement for exemption from payment of withholding tax for shift and night work from 1 April 2024

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    New requirements for exemption from payment of withholding tax for shift and night work from 1 April 2024
  • 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.