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A new European framework agreement has been concluded to facilitate cross-border telework. Belgium has signed this agreement. It will therefore apply from 1 July 2023.

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

In order to maintain easier access to temporary unemployment for economic reasons for non-manual workers, the National Labour Council has concluded collective labour agreement (CLA) No. 172..

The school holiday period is the perfect time to hire a student since students are more available during this period than during the school year.

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.

From 1 September 2023, workers may use an electronic version of the C3.2A check form when they are temporarily unemployed.

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.

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.

The “leerjob” (learning job) is a new and for the time being temporary form of workplace learning in Flanders and Brussels that will take effect from 1 January 2024.

Every year, when summer vacations are approaching, employers ask us about the conditions that must be met to employ students.