The end of status in the Walloon civil service has a hidden cost: its impact on pensions. The Walloon government risks having to foot the bill. Which can weigh down the budgetary trajectory.
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By Stéphane Vande VeldePublished on 11/13/2024 at 5:24 p.m.
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Cis THE reform of the civil service and we have not finished talking about it: the end of the status for Walloon agents, reason why the unions have filed a strike notice for this Thursday, raises questions to which decision-makers have not yet found answers. Particularly on the question of pensions. Let’s start again: in the Walloon Region, the pension fund for statutory agents is partly the responsibility of the federal government, while that of contractual agents is the responsibility of the employer (and therefore of the Region). By appointing the agents, the Walloon Region therefore transfers the pension burden to the federal government. Evil tongues do not hesitate to say that it is for this reason that the SPW has experienced a wave of statutoryization in recent years.
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