Belgium: financial empowerment of businesses in terms of continuous training

The Council of Ministers of December 5, 2008 approved a Royal Decree which "increases businesses' responsibilities in terms of continuous training" said the Minister for Employment, Joelle Micquet. The text imposes extra contributions on companies belonging to sector with poor continuous training. (Ref. 080995)
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The social partners planned, at interprofessional level, on the occasion of the “intergenerational pact 2005”, a system to increase companies’ training efforts. When the training effort in one sector is deemed too low – i.e. if it represents less than 1.9% of the wage bill, the sector has to sign a collective agreement providing for an increase of at least 5% of the number of workers entitled to training, that is to say a 0.1% increase of training efforts. In the absence of a collective agreeme

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