• 03 April 2024

    Social elections 2024: exemption from holding elections?

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    In certain cases, the electoral procedure has to be terminated earlier.
  • 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?
  • 19 December 2023

    Soon obligation to pay a contribution of 1,800€ to the "Return To Work Fund".

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    No later than 1 April 2024, new obligations exist when you invoke medical force majeure to terminate the contract.
  • 07 November 2023

    Work bonus: new amounts as of 1 November 2023

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    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.
  • 22 March 2024

    Update Federal learning account

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    To manage the individual training right, every private employer will soon have to register all training related to the employment relationship in a registration tool, the FLA.
  • 26 March 2024

    Social elections 2024: agreement on postal vote

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    When appropriate and provided that certain conditions are met, an agreement must be obtained on the postal vote during the electoral procedure.
  • 18 October 2023

    Exemption of withholding tax for young workers (2023)

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    The wages of certain young workers are exempted from withholding tax in the fourth quarter of 2023.
  • 10 July 2023

    Exemption for research and development: notify Belspo of your ongoing R&D project or programme by 1 August 2023

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    As of 1 August 2023, the FPS Finance will adopt a stricter position on when to notify Belspo of an R&D project or programme. From then on, you must notify Belspo before the project or programme start date. Check to see if you need to take action!
  • 19 January 2024

    Flexi-jobs: basic wage and flexi-wage from 1 January 2024

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    The reform of the flexi-jobs system concerns among other things the amount of the basic wage and the flexi-wage.
  • 19 October 2023

    Change to winter time: how should shift workers be paid?

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    On Sunday, October 29, 2023, we will switch to winter time, which means that we must set our clocks back an hour (at 3 a.m. it will actually be 2 a.m.). This change to winter time can pose difficulties for calculating the remuneration of certain categories of workers.