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    Remuneration conditions

    Concept

    An employer posting workers to Belgium must, for work carried out in Belgium, comply with the remuneration conditions (i.e. the minimum rates of pay (salary scales) and the other benefits and compensation) which must be paid in accordance with contractual provisions made compulsory by Royal Decree (i.e. collective labour agreements sanctioned under criminal law), with the exception of supplementary occupational retirement pension schemes.

    Minimal amounts of remuneration


    Where the activity performed during the posting relates to a joint committee (sector - branch of activities) which is not described in one of the aforementioned pdf documents, an information regarding the sectorial collective agreements concluded within this joint committee (branch of activities) can be found via the following webpages : 

     

    • Minimal amounts of remuneration laid down by National (inter-professional) collective agreement
       
       
      If your undertaking belongs to a sector for which the joint committee has not laid down any minimum remuneration amount, the level applicable is the average minimum monthly income that has been determined at inter-professional level (i.e. applicable throughout the whole private sector in Belgium).

      From 1 August 2022 this amounts to €1879,13 for workers aged 18 and more.
       
    • More information regarding the minimum remuneration conditions to be applied can be obtained by contacting the Belgian Labour Inspectorate by using the following email adress : SPOC.LabourInspection@employment.belgium.be.

    Derogation from the obligation of applying the Belgian remuneration conditions

    The employer who posts workers in Belgium does not have to apply the provisions of Belgian law regarding the remuneration conditions where the works to be performed fulfill certain cumulative conditions.

    Payment of the remuneration 

    If the remuneration is paid in Belgium, the payment should be carried out in accordance with particular rules laid down by the Act of 12 April 1965 on the protection of workers' wages and salaries. 

    Exemption from the obligation to hold the Belgian social records  

    Employers who post workers to Belgium may be exempted from the obligation to draw up and keep up for a period of 12 months certain Belgian social records regarding remuneration on basis of the equivalent foreign documents from the country of origin.    

    Joint and several liability regarding remuneration

    Where an employer does not (totally or partially) pay the remuneration owed to his/her employee, the Act of 12 April 1965 provides for systems of several and joint liability as regards remuneration. 

    Those systems of several and joint liability entitle the aforementioned employee, under certain conditions, to subsidiarily obtain payment of such an owed remuneration from third persons, i.e. the jointly liable persons.

    In case of posting of workers, two systems of joint liability may essentially apply :