Belgium: the federation of technology firms demands extension of partial unemployment to workers

nt position of the president of the Federation of Entreprises in Belgium (FEB) in favor of the extension of partial unemployment to “employees” and no longer reserved for “workers”, the employers’ federation of the technology sector, Agoria, has also demanded such a measure. (Ref. 090105)

At a press conference on January 28, 2009, delegate administrator Paul Soete asked for the extension of partial unemployment to employees, just as the FEB’s boss had done a few days before (see our dispatch No