Belgium: the minister of employment wants to implement an obligatory no-claims bonus/surcharge for accidents at work in all firms

This new measure is aimed at encouraging firms to take more prevention measures in terms of workers' safety, and rewarding those who make efforts to avoid accidents at work. (Ref 06922)
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The Council of ministers of September 15th approved a draft bill changing the law on work accidents. The bill creates a system of increase and reduction of insurance premiums based on work accidents for employers who are “in a statistically appropriate way” far from the average, in a negative or positive sense. Even if the number of work accidents is going down in Belgium, this is not the case for serious accidents triggering permanent work incapacity: their number has considerably increased la

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