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As expected, the wage standard for 2023-2024 was officially set at 0.0% by the Royal Decree of 13 May 2023. This standard determines how much the average wage cost per employee may increase for a maximum of two years.

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The work bonus for low-wage workers will be increased from 1 April 2024. The fiscal work bonus is being strengthened in a targeted way.

As an employer, you can reimburse the subsistence expenses made by employees on the occasion of business travels in Belgium.

Traffic disruptions caused by the farmers' mobilization is preventing some workers from working.

Employers hiring before the end of 2023 may still be able to benefit from the target group reduction for first hirings. Indeed, from 1 January 2024, this reduction will change dramatically.

Since 1 January 2024, a specific template for a medical certificate can be submitted by your employee if he falls ill during his annual leave. However, use of this template is not compulsory.

A law of 28 November 2022 allows an employee who has obtained information about violations in a professional context to raise the alarm via an internal reporting channel.

An act providing new protection against dismissal has just been published in the Belgian Official Gazette. From 28 April 2024, you may not dismiss your employee if they inform you that they are undergoing infertility treatment or medically assisted procreation.

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.