Marie-Laure Dekeyzer

In the wage agreement, the Federal Government decided that the wage standard is 0% for the 2023 to 2024 period. That means that, employers are not permitted to assign their staff voluntary wage increases in this period. There is an exception for employers achieving an (exceptionally) high profit in 2022.

The relance overtime-hours system familiar for the last few years is being extended for the 2023-2025 period. This once again involves 120 overtime hours that are exempt from taxes and social security contributions.

In only a few more weeks, the current year will come to an end. Perhaps your employees have not yet taken their full holiday allowance, especially if they were temporarily unemployed due to the Covid pandemic this year. What happens to such leftover holiday allowance? Must it be used up, carried over to the next year or paid out by the employer?