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Employees who work on Sunday 9 June 2024 are entitled to be absent from work if they carry out certain electoral duties

In certain cases, the electoral procedure has to be terminated earlier.

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.

The staff representatives that are members of the Works Council and/or the Committee for Prevention and Protection at Work, as well as the non-elected candidates, shall be protected against dismissal during a specific period.

An employer may award a flat-rate kilometric allowance to staff members who use their own cars, motorcycles or mopeds for professional travel. As of 1 July 2023, a new amount will be applicable.

This reduction in social security contributions applies to workers with low wages and enables them to benefit from higher net wages. The amounts are indexed as of 1 November 2023.

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.

The employers of the public and private sectors are entitled to a structural reduction of their employer contributions to the social security for their workers subject to all social security sectors, as far as they satisfy some specific conditions.

The designation of a confidential counsellor competent in the prevention of workplace psychosocial hazards will become mandatory in certain companies from 1 December 2023.

The temporary increase in the limit of 130 to 180 tax-friendly overtime hours expired on 30 June 2023. It has been decided to extend this measure for all sectors up to and including 30 June 2025.