They will be entitled to official employment contracts, health insurance and sick days.
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I thought they already had, given the type of work/life/benefits culture we have here. Which makes me wonder: which other jobs don’t have any leave or pension plans?
Your leave policies are a mess for people just moving here from other parts of the EU. You can end up with practically no leave for a year.
Our leave policies are also a mess for everyone just out of college/university, because no one really informs anyone. I’m assuming they’re kinda the same for anyone coming in from anywhere else…
Young people get “youth vacation days”, but they have to apply for it themselves or they lose the money. It’s a decades old system and imo it’s a disgrace that it’s not automatic, but when I graduated we all knew about it atleast. New workers who arrive from outside Belgium only have a solution since 2 or 3 years ago: “supplementary vacation days”. Before that they had no solution for them and it was up to the employer to invent something (or not), which is why many went without. That change and other recent changes is basically the eu forcing Belgium to be a little less exploitative.
I’m not in HR so I may be off on some points, but this is what I remember from when it was news.
So the thing is that for a recent hire most companies, especially small ones, don’t know about the supplementary days. That makes for an awkward conversation immediately when you start.
The only real source is a government website with no good law citations that says ambiguous shit, and the actual law, available in Dutch or French, but the legal text is very hard since it’s a modification to an older royal decree, so you have to read the two together.
Ask me how I know. Capital of the EU my ass.