Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Belgium as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Belgium: New guaranteed average minimum monthly income (April 2024)
The guaranteed average minimum monthly income (GGMMI) has just been increased to €2,029 …
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Belgium: Reduced social security scheme for student employees
Companies may now hire students on a special agreement to work up to 600 hours per year (up from 475 hours), whilst benefiting from reduced social security contributions …
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Belgium: Minimum pay thresholds for non-EEA nationals (2024)
In order to obtain a permit allowing employment of non-European Economic Area (EEA) nationals in Belgium, minimum salary requirements must be met …
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Belgium: Recovery of lost vacation time
The Belgian parliament has formalised a legal right for an employee who falls ill during their annual vacation to recover their lost days of vacation …
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Belgium: Work resumption subsidy
When an employee returns to work on the advice of a health professional in a phased way – extending over at least three months their employer may apply to the health insurance organization for a lump sum of €1,000 …
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Belgium: Tackling long-term absence
It has finally dawned on the Belgian government that the country’s over-generous system of paid sick leave – allowing for an employee to “go sick” and remain off work for at least a year on 60% of their (albeit capped) pay before it is effectively reviewed by the Health Insurance Fund – is a huge mistake …
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Belgium: Poor economic management
The International Monetary Fund has just published its Article IV country report on Belgium …
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Belgium: 2024 Immigration salary thresholds
With effect from 1st January 2024 new rates for highly skilled employees will be €50,310 (US$53,836) for both Brussels and the Walloon Region, whilst for the Flemish Region it will be €46,632 (US$49,900) …
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Belgium: Payment and repayment demands for Ryanair staff
First came the decision by the Brussels Labour Court that Ryanair’s subsidiary ‘Crewlink’ must reimburse €600,000 (US$637,542) to the Belgian Social Fund for Temporary Workers …
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Belgium: New funding arrangement for replacing internal combustion engine vehicles
A Royal Decree will enter into force on 1st January 2024 on the establishment of a “mobility budget” for environmentally friendly cars …
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Belgium: Industrial output continues to decline (July 2023)
A year-on-year fall of 4 …
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Belgium: Further details about discrimination law
The reform was finally published at the end of July and more can now be revealed about it following our early announcement in the 9th July 2023 Newswire issue …
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Belgium: Additional voluntary overtime (AVO) reactivated until 30th June 2025
The social partners have agreed that employers may reintroduce the system of AVO that had ended in December 2022 …
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Belgium: Sharp decline in confidence partly due to employment prospects (July 2023)
Over the year to July 2023, the business confidence barometer fell by 14 …
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Belgium: Over a quarter of Belgian workers spend all the working day in front of a screen (2022)
New data from the Belgian statistical office has indicated that in 2022, 25 …
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