Belgium: insurance sector secures an agreement for 2019-2020 that focuses on purchasing power and job security

On 03 December, Belgium’s insurance sector federation Assuralia, together with the CGSLB, CNE-CSC and SETCa FGTB, trade unions agreed on a 2019-2020 sector agreement that impacts 23,000 employees in the sector and that will run for a period of two years until the end of June 2021. With information kindly provided by Valérie Van Walleghmen, the recently appointed secretary general of the SETCa FGTB union, Planet Labor can develop the main points of this agreement namely purchasing power, ongoing efforts to promote career and job security, and the introduction of measures on the right to disconnect together with the right to teleworking.
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Recurring annual bonus payment of €100 net of taxes. After the failure of the 2019-2020 cross-industry AIP negotiations (c.f. article No. 11099) and the royal decree to set the salary margin at 1.1%, recent weeks have seen the topic of purchasing power take center stage. “The final agreement secures a one-off bonus of €200 (net) in 2020 and in a new departure it also secures a recurring annual bonus of €100 (net) as of June 2020,” highlighted Valérie Van Walleghmen. The agreement clarifies tha

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