Two Royal Decrees issued on August 12, 2008 on conventional prepension were published in the Official Gazette (Moniteur Belge) on August 28, 2008. In keeping with the Generations Pact - the agreement signed by the Social Partners in 2006 - the prepension system was made consistent with the standard rules applying to job seekers and forces a number of prepensioners to make themselves available to look for a job. (Ref. 080662)
Prepension is a system created in 1974 which enables dismissed workers to combine unemployment and temporary monthly additional allowances paid for by their former employer, under certain circumstances. This system is regulated by two different texts: the collective bargaining agreement No. 17 of December 19, 1974, which has been extended, and the Royal Decree of December 7, 1992. Prepensioners are considered as jobless. Nonetheless, there are differences between the status of prepensioner and
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