Belgium: new law allowing ‘trial temping’ before hiring workers and supervising successive daily employment contracts

The law amending the Temporary Work Act, permanently adopted on June 26, was published in the Moniteur today, July 16.  It enforces the agreement negotiated by the temporary social partners, which extends the scope of appeal to temporary work to ‘integration’ (trying workers out before permanently recruiting them), while supervising appeal to successive daily contracts.  (Ref.  130488)
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The law introduces appeal to temporary work “before permanently adding hiring the agency worker for the same job after the availability period.” The period in question, the duration of temporary work, the maximum number of agency workers in the same situation, the minimum duration of employment of an agency worker and the minimum duration of temporary contracts are all defined in the sector’s mandatory collective labor agreement.


Now, the law also supervises successive daily temporary contracts

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