In Luxembourg, the Minister of Social Security will reflect on other devices to try to reduce absenteeism.
Certainly, in recent days, the Luxembourg government have multiplied Signs of appeasement in social dialogue. Here, it is the Prime Minister who announces the regular outfit of round tables To take stock with the social partners. There, it is the deputies of the majority CSV-DP who want to reassure the unions on their ” central role »In the negotiation of future conventions collectives. And now, Martine Deprez has just waved a new white flag.
Thus, at the microphone of RTLthe Minister of Social Security assured that the Government did not intend to file a bill imposing 1 or more deficiency days to employees absent. And that even if the request was, pressing on the employers’ side. Thus, the federation of craftsmen had put this suggestion in its vows for 2025 … A change of government government which was not obvious a few months ago.
However, the minister intends to see what is possible to do to better control absenteeism who would have been in recent years. And to announce the upcoming constitution of a working group On this theme.
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The group would be made up of representatives of the National Health Caisse (CNS), medical control, the Union of Luxembourg companies (UEL) and unions. We will also know, on Tuesday, if this announcement is suitable for OGBL and LCGB; the two teams intended to take stock of the mood of the ” union front After the threat of a general strike launched at the end of 2024.
Several months ago, a study on the cost of absenteeism on the Luxembourg economy had mentioned the number of the billion euros. And regularly, business leaders deplore too much laxity of the authorities to monitor (and sanction) workers abusing short absences and without justification.
-Yes, on the large region, Only Germany and Luxembourg have not yet established the day (s) of deficiency. The employees of France and Belgium are already used to this system which deprives them of salary or compensation the first or the first days of absence for illness.
On the Hexagon side, in recent months, the successive primary has suggested that they were counting in particular Return to the “tolerance” granted to civil servants Compared to private employees. Thus, the day of deficiency only applies over 1 day in the French administration, against 3 days for other assets. A reform that the Bayrou government no longer seems ready to want.
In Belgium, the 1st day of absence for illness is considered to be a deficiency day (not paid) for workers under contracts of less than 14 days. For longer contracts, the employer generally supports compensation from the 1st day (This system varying according to collective agreements and sectors of activity).
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