To the union’s request to devote the one-euro increase in service vouchers to workers’ salaries, Flanders provided an imaginative response where Wallonia preferred to step aside.
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Journalist at the Economy department
By Pascal LorentPublished on 11/20/2024 at 6:38 p.m.
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C‘is a room. Very small. Worth one euro. That which the Walloon and Brussels governments had added to the face value of service vouchers under the previous legislature and which Flanders will in turn add, from 1is next January, to bring it to 10 euros in the three regions of the country. A fiat currency that the unions are demanding in unison, so that it goes into the pockets of female workers – given their number in the sector, women prevail – rather than into the coffers of their employers. As a united front, they launched the “One euro is one euro” campaign, recalling that housekeepers are among the lowest paid employees in the country.
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