Agreement allows greater flexibility in Belgium's rigid labour market and less union oversight
15 February 2022 - 18:26Belgian employees won the right to perform a full work week in four days instead of the usual five without loss of salary, part of an agreement that aims to make Belgium’s notoriously rigid labour market more flexible.
“The goal is to give people and companies more freedom to arrange their work time,” Prime Minister Alexander de Croo said on Tuesday in Brussels. “If you compare our country with others, you’ll often see we’re far less dynamic.”
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