Luxembourg: details of the single status bill for blue-collar and white-collar workers

After long negotiations between social partners, the government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg presented to the Parliament, on August 3, the bill concerning the single status for blue-collar and white-collar workers. This article explains in details the changes already presented in our article n° 070682. (Ref. 070725)
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According to the government, “the single status comes in line with the policy to modernize our structures and to make them more efficient. We need to overcome the divides which, in our economy, oftentimes no longer rely on objective reasons and turn out to be counterproductive for the employment market. By putting an and to these distinctions, and event to outdated discrimination between blue-collat and white-collar workers, the single status will give rise to a labour code uniformly enforceabl

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