New ground for appeal: integration. After years bargaining, the federation of HR service providers, Federgon, and its union counterparts, CSC, FGTB and CGSLB, managed to agree on new regulations in the temporary sector. Signed within the National Labor Council (CNT), Belgium’s national social dialogue structure, the agreement notably provides that agency workers may be recruited for assignments on the grounds of integration. This new appeal system, which allows temporary recruitments for permanent jobs, will be subject to information/consultation but not to the consent of the union delegation. It cannot last over six months and doesn’t mean that the user company is forced to hire the temporary worker. Nevertheless, the company will have to explain its refusal. Thus, it extends the scope of temporary work, which used to be restricted by the 1976 Act, updated in 1987, to the temporary replacement of permanent workers, to the need to meet excess work or the performance of an “extraordinary task.” “In practice, we can already see than 50 percent of temporary assignments end in temporary employment. For the sector, adding this new ground to the regulation is real progress” Federgon rejoiced in a news release. The employers’ organization sees this part of the agreement as a victory.
ss work or the performance of an “extraordinary task.” “In practice, we can already see than 50 percent of temporary assignments end in temporary employment. For the sector, adding this new ground to the regulation is real progress” Federgon rejoiced in a news release. The employers’ organization sees this part of the agreement as a victory.
Daily contracts. For their part, unions managed to prevent the appeal to successive daily contracts except in sectors which signed an agreement on the s
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