Employers must declare the days of teleworking of cross-border workers to the Joint Social Security Center (CCSS). Certain employees received a letter from the CCSS informing them that it had been noted that they were carrying out a professional activity in the territory of two or more Member States, which could call into question their affiliation to Luxembourg social security.
“Mail can be scary,” admits an HR manager contacted by The essentials. You don’t need to worry more than that. If the employee has teleworked less than 50% of the time, he or she will remain affiliated with the CCSS.
The letter was “sent in order to inform the people concerned of the procedure applicable to them”, underlines the CCSS. The organization of the employees’ country of residence analyzes the number of days of teleworking carried out and decides whether affiliation to Luxembourg social security should be canceled or not.
“The triggering of the applicable determination procedure does not mean that the affiliation of the person concerned will change,” reassures the CCSS.
The framework agreement on teleworking in terms of social security provides that “the employee of a company having its head office in Luxembourg and having teleworked more than 25% and less than 50% of the time, also remains affiliated to the CCSS”. underlines the Deutsche Verbindungsstelle Krankenversicherung – Ausland, responsible for determining the affiliation regime for its German cross-border workers.
The National Social Security Office in Belgium explains that it must currently process “2,000 to 3,000 multi-activity files following declarations from Luxembourg companies”.
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