Belgian employees
FiltersWhen recruiting Belgian employees, employers need to fulfil the following obligations:
In Belgium, all employers are obliged to take out an insurance policy for work-related accidents for their employees, regardless of the duration of their employment.
To take out an insurance policy for work-related accidents you can turn to one of the insurance companies listed here.
Social Security is a public system to guarantee an income and/or healthcare for workers and families, who are temporarily or permanently unable to provide (enough) income and/or healthcare for themselves.
Social Security grants benefits in many circumstances for example in case of retirement, illness, disability and possible unemployment.
In Belgium, every employer is obliged to contribute to Social Security. In this respect, all employers are obliged to register with the Federal Public Social Security Service.
To contact the Belgian Federal Public Social Security Service, please click here.
This registration can be made directly at the Federal Public Social Security Service itself or you can request a social secretariat (Sociaal Secretariaat) to do it for you.
If you wish to do so, please contact one of the recognised social secretariats, which can be found here.
The Child Benefit Fund is a fund that pays out child benefits to all employees for whom all legal conditions are fulfilled.
In Belgium, all employers are obliged to register with a Child Benefit Fund within 90 days after hiring an employee with or without children whereby the employer needs to fill out all the required details.
If there is no registration within 90 days, the employer will automatically be registered with the Federal Child Benefit Service for Employees. In this situation however, the employer will receive a default registration, which might result in higher payments.
For registration, please contact the Federal Child Benefit Service for Employees or another Child Benefit Fund.
In Belgium, all employers who recruit manual workers (blue collar) are obliged to register with a Holiday Allowance Fund.
Normally this is the Federal Annual Holiday Department, but some corporate sectors have their own Holiday Allowance Fund.
For manual workers in the diamond industry (manufacturing/no trade), employers can turn to the Holiday Allowance Fund for the Diamond Industry (Rijksverlofkas voor de Diamantnijverheid).
The instant an employer has an employee on his/her payroll; the employer is obliged to register with an External Service for Prevention and Protection at Work.
For registration, you can turn to one of the recognised External Services for Prevention and Protection at Work.
In addition to being registered with an External Service For Prevention And Protection At Work, the employer also has to have in place Internal Service for Prevention and Protection at Work and implement a welfare policy within the policy.
Employers in the diamond sector are obliged to have a Committee of Prevention and Protection at Work when they employ an average of 10 to 49 employees.
Employers – who have joined the Syndicate of the Belgian Diamond Industry (Syndikaat der Belgische Diamantnijverheid or SBD) – are allowed to found a common service and a common committee.
For more information, please consult the Royal Decree (Koninklijk Besluit) from the 27th of March 1998 with respect to the Internal Service for Prevention and Protection at Work (published in the Official Gazette (Belgisch Staatsblad) on the 31st March 1998).
The contact details of the Syndicate of the Belgian Diamond Industry (Syndikaat der Belgische Diamantnijverheid), can be found here
In Belgium, all employers are obliged to immediately report the commencement and termination of an employee’s employment to the government.
This DIMONA report is a very simple report and can be made:
- By telephone with push buttons on the number: + 32 (0) 2 511 51 51;
- On the website of the Federal Social Security;
- Via your social secretariat
