17 MAI 2007. - An Act to implement the Inter-Professional Agreement for the period 2007-2008 (1)

ALBERT II, King of the Belgians,
To all, present and to come, Hi.
The Chambers adopted and We sanction the following:
PART I^er. - GENERAL PROVISION
Article 1^er. This Act regulates a matter referred to in Article 78 of the Constitution.
PART II. - EMPLOY
CHAPTER PREMIER. - Timetable
Art. 2. In section 103quater of the Recovery Act of 22 January 1985, which deals with social provisions, inserted by the Act of 10 August 2001 on the conciliation between employment and quality of life and replaced by the Act of 27 December 2006 on various provisions (I), the third paragraph is repealed.
CHAPTER II. - First Employment Convention
Art. 3. Article 42, § 1^er, 1°, of the Act of 24 December 1999 for the promotion of employment, replaced by the Act of 3 July 2005 on various provisions relating to social consultation, is replaced by the following provision:
"1° these private employers are bound by a collective labour agreement referred to in section 190 of the Act of 27 December 2006 on various provisions (I), which provides for an effort of at least 0.15 per cent for the period determined under section 195, paragraph 3, of the Act of 27 December 2006 referred to above; "
CHAPTER III. - Prepension
Section 1^er. - Full-time prepension
Art. 4. Article 110, § 1^erParagraph 1^erof the Act of 26 March 1999 on the Belgian Employment Action Plan 1998 and bringing various provisions, as amended by the Acts of 10 August 2001, 1^er April 2003 and July 3, 2005, the words “in the period 1^er January 2005 to December 31, 2006 are replaced by the words "in the period of 1^er January 2007 to December 31, 2008".
Section 2. - Half-time prepension
Art. 5. Article 112, paragraph 1^erof the same law, as amended by the laws of 10 August 2001, 1^er April 2003 and July 3, 2005,^er January 2005 to December 31, 2006 are replaced by the words "for the period of 1^er January 2007 to December 31, 2008".
Art. 6. § 1^er. Article 1^er of the Royal Decree of 27 January 1997 on measures relating to half-time prepension pursuant to Article 7, § 2, of the Law of 26 July 1996 on the promotion of employment and the prevention of competitiveness, as amended by the laws of 26 March 1999, 10 August 2001, 1^er April 2003 and July 3, 2005,^er January 2005 to December 31, 2006 are replaced by the words "for the period of 1^er January 2007 to December 31, 2008".
§ 2. Article 4 of the same order, amended by the laws of 10 August 2001, 1^er April 2003 and July 3, 2005, the words "June 30, 2004" were replaced by the words "June 30, 2006".
§ 3. Article 5 of the same order, amended by the laws of 10 August 2001,1^er April 2003 and July 3, 2005, the words "December 31, 2006" are replaced by the words "December 31, 2008".
CHAPTER IV. - Amendment of the Act of 5 September 2001 to improve the employment rate of workers
Art. 7. Section 13 of the Act of 5 September 2001 to improve the employment rate of workers, as amended by the Acts of 23 December 2005 and 20 June 2006, is replaced by the following provision:
“Art. 13. § 1^er. A worker whose employer terminated the employment contract is entitled to a professional reclassification procedure as set out in a collective labour agreement, entered into within the National Labour Council and made compulsory by a royal decree or fixed by the King by a deliberate order in the Council of Ministers, if no collective labour agreement entered into within two months of the referral of the National Labour Council.
However, this right is granted only if the worker simultaneously meets the following conditions:
1° he was not fired for serious reasons;
2° at the time of termination, he is at least 45 years old;
3° at the time of termination, the employer has at least one year of uninterrupted service seniority.
Nor is the right granted to him from the time he can apply for the benefit of the pension.
§ 2. The employer must, after the leave has been given, offer to the worker referred to in § 1^er, paragraphs 1 and 2, a professional reclassification procedure whose conditions and deadlines are determined by the legal instrument determined in § 1^erParagraph 1.
§ 3. By derogation from § 2, the employer is not required to offer a professional reclassification procedure:
1° to the worker who is bound by a work contract with a normal average working week that does not reach half of the working life of the full-time worker in a comparable situation within the meaning of section 2 of the Act of 5 March 2002 on the principle of non-discrimination in favour of part-time workers;
2° to the worker who is in a situation such that if he becomes a complete unemployed person compensated after the notice period or the period covered by a leave allowance, he should not be available for the general employment market; the King shall determine, after the opinion of the National Labour Council, the categories that should not be available for the general employment market for the purposes of this provision.
§ 4. By derogation from § 3, the employer is obliged to offer a procedure for professional reclassification to the workers referred to in § 3 when explicitly applying for it.
Art. 8. The King shall determine the date of entry into force of this chapter.
CHAPTER V. - Amendment to Article 41 of the Act of 3 July 1978 on contracts of work
Art. 9. section 41 of the Act of 3 July 1978 on contracts of employment, as amended by the Act of 23 June 1981, is supplemented by the following paragraph:
"The workers referred to in Article 13, § 3, 2°, of the Act of 5 September 2001 to improve the employment rate of workers, shall be entitled to the right provided for in this Article only if they request a procedure of professional reclassification. »
Art. 10. The King shall determine the date of entry into force of this chapter.
CHAPTER VI. - Education leave paid
Section 1^er. - Increase in ceilings for coincidence hours
Art. 11. In Article 111 of the Law of Recovery of 22 January 1985 containing social provisions, amended by the Royal Decrees of 28 March 1995 and 1 September 2006 and by the Laws of 10 June 1993, 20 July and 27 December 2006 on various provisions (I), a § 3 is inserted, as follows:
"When the course hours - despite the application of what has been covered by collective planning - coincide with the working time of the person concerned, the hours of leave may be taken beyond the ceilings referred to in § 1 er, so that a total of 120 hours of leave may be granted to attend either vocational training or several courses of a different nature. »
Section 2. - Interest-free loan granted by the Licensed Workers Compensation Fund in the event of business closure
Art. 12. The following provisions are intended to secure the funding of the leave-education system paid for the period 2007-2008.
Art. 13. In order to achieve the purpose set out in section 12, the Worker Allowance Fund terminated in the event of business closure, established with the National Employment Board by section 9 of the Act of 28 June 1966 on the compensation of workers terminated in the event of business closure, makes available to the Employment Agency for the period 2007-2008 an interest-free loan for education
Art. 14. The amount of this interest-free loan is set at a maximum of 50 million euros.
Art. 15. The interest-free loan must be fully refunded by the National Employment Office to the Licensed Workers' Compensation Fund in the event of the closure of businesses within a period fixed by the King, following the advice of the Management Committee of the Licensed Workers' Compensation Fund in the event of business closure.
Reimbursement due for a specified year shall be made from the total amount obtained under Article 121, § 4, paragraph 1^er, of the law of recovery of January 22, 1985, for the year in question.
Art. 16. The King shall determine, after the advice of the Management Committee of the Licensed Workers Compensation Fund in the event of business closure, the terms and conditions of execution relating to articles 12 to 15.
Section 3. - Decrease in the time limit for claims
Art. 17. In Article 137bis, § 1^er of the Law of Recovery of 22 January 1985, inserted by the Act of 22 December 1989 and amended by the Royal Decree of 28 March 1995 and the Act of 27 December 2006, the second paragraph shall be replaced as follows:
"The two-year period referred to in the previous paragraph is reduced to one and a half year from the 2006-2007 school year. »
Section 4. - Adaptation of budgetary means
contributions for the respective school years
Art. 18. The following amendments are made to section 121 of the Recovery Act of 22 January 1985, replacing the Act of 27 December 2006 on various provisions (I):
1° to § 2, the last paragraph shall be replaced by the following paragraph:
"In the course of September of each year, the National Social Security Office estimates, on the basis of the contribution established in accordance with the preceding paragraphs, the likely income of this contribution for the following calendar year. »
2° § 3 is supplemented by the following paragraph:
"In derogation from the previous paragraph, the Belgian state's share is estimated at 84.360,000 euros for the calendar year 2007. »
3° to § 4, the second paragraph shall be replaced by the following paragraph:
"The total amount referred to in the preceding paragraph is increased for the years 2007 and 2008 of the amount of the interest-free loan granted by the Business Closing Fund, awarded pursuant to Section 2 of Chapter VI of Part II of the Act of 17 May 2007 containing the implementation of the 2007-2008 Inter-Professional Agreement. »
4° 1 § 5 is added, as follows:
Ҥ 5. The total amount determined in accordance with the preceding paragraphs for each calendar year is, from the 2009 calendar year, used for claims of receivables received in the previous year by the Federal Public Service Employment, Labour and Social Concertation.
The overall amount determined in accordance with the preceding paragraphs for each calendar year is, for calendar years 2007 and 2008, used for school year reimbursements prior to school year 2007-2008.
The King may, by a deliberate decree in the Council of Ministers, determine the conditions and complementary modalities for the execution of the preceding paragraphs. »
Section 5. - Entry into force
Art. 19. This chapter produces its effects on 1^er January 2007, with the exception of section 1^Ere which comes into force on 1 September 2007 for the trainings followed from that date.
Art. 20. The third paragraph of section 202 of the Act of 27 December 2006 on various provisions (I) is repealed.
CHAPTER VII. - Amendment of the Act of 8 April 1965 establishing regulations
Art. 21. In the Act of 8 April 1965 establishing the labour regulations, which section 12ter, inserted by the Act of 21 December 1994, becomes section 12quater, is introduced a section 12ter, which reads as follows:
"Art. 12ter. § 1^er. By derogation from sections 11 and 12, the provisions of a collective labour agreement between an employer and all the representative organizations of the workers represented in the union delegation and providing for the introduction of a flexible schedule regime within the meaning of Article 20bis of the Labour Act of 16 March 1971, are introduced into the labour regulations as soon as the agreement is deposited in the office of the General Directorate of Labour Relations of the Federal Labour
§ 2. By derogation from sections 11 and 12, the provisions of a collective labour agreement entered into in a parity body and providing for the introduction of a flexible schedule regime within the meaning of section 20bis of the Labour Act of 16 March 1971, are introduced in the Labour Regulations, at the earliest time of the filing of this agreement to the Registry of the General Directorate of the Collective Labour Relations of the Federal Employment, Labour and Concert
§ 3. By derogation from sections 11 and 12, if the collective labour agreement does not meet the conditions set out in § 2, but that it accurately determines the duration of the work, its calculation and the difference between the alternative working hours and the normal working hours, the working rules may be adapted by the employer to bring it into conformity with the provisions of Article 6, 1°, paragraph 4 of this Act and that direction at the earliest time of the general employment agreement
§ 4 When it is not satisfied with the conditions set out in §§ 2 and 3, the collective labour agreement entered into in a parity body providing for the introduction of a flexible schedule regime within the meaning of Article 20bis of the Labour Act of 16 March 1971, may establish a procedure for amending the labour regulations derogating from Articles 11 and 12 of this Act to bring it into conformity with the provisions of Article 1,
Art. 22. Article 21 comes into force on the day this Act is published in the Belgian Monitor.
CHAPTER VIII. - Amendment of the Act of 3 July 2005 on various provisions relating to social dialogue
Art. 23. Article 28, paragraph 2, of the Act of 3 July 2005 on various provisions relating to social dialogue, is replaced by the following provision:
"On the proposal of the National Labour Council, the King sets the date on which the amounts of the grant in favour of the beneficiaries must be communicated to the National Social Security Office in the quarterly statement covering the quarter in which these premiums were awarded. "
CHAPTER IX. - Amendment of the Act of 23 December 2005 on the pact of intergenerational solidarity
Art. 24. Section 30 of the Act of 23 December 2005 on the covenant of intergenerational solidarity is replaced by the following provision:
"Art. 30. § 1^er. When the overall training efforts of all employers within the scope of the Act of 5 December 1968 relating to collective labour agreements and parity commissions do not reach at least 1.9 pct. of the total wage mass of these companies, the King may, by order deliberately in the Council of Ministers and according to the conditions and modalities determined by him, increase by 0.05 pct. the employer's contribution for the financing of paid leave-education for companies in the sectors that carry out insufficient training efforts.
§ 2. The notion "sector" referred to in 1^erall employers that come to a joint commission or subcommission under the Act of 5 December 1968 on collective labour agreements and joint boards
For the application of § 1^er is considered to be, "a sector that is making insufficient efforts in the field of training", where, in the year to which the assessment of the overall effort of 1.9 per cent is concerned, as referred to in paragraph 3, there is no existing collective labour agreement regarding additional training efforts increasing them by at least 0.1 percentage points each year or that does not plan at least to increase the annual rate of 5 percentage points of training The King determines, by order deliberately in the Council of Ministers, the conditions to be met by the collective labour agreement on additional training efforts in order to be considered a sufficient increase in efforts; In particular, consideration will be given to the possible adaptation of contributions to the training sector fund, the granting of training time per worker individually or collectively, the offer and acceptance of a training offer outside of working hours and a collective training schedule via the company board.
§ 3. The finding that the overall training efforts of all employers referred to in § 1^er reach or do not reach the total of at least 1.9 pct. of the total payroll of these companies, is assessed on the basis of the technical report of the Central Council of the Economy, referred to in Article 5 of the Law of 26 July 1996 on the promotion of employment and the preventive safeguarding of competitiveness. The above report refers to the overall training efforts of the year prior to the year in which this report is issued.
With respect to the years for which the renewed social balance sheet applies, referred to in National Labour Council Notices 1536 and 1573, the above-mentioned report will be based on these social balance sheets.
If, within the framework of the inter-professional agreement, social partners issue a notice stating that they believe that a complementary analysis is necessary because the difference between the overall effort identified on the basis of the technical report referred to in the first paragraph, on the one hand and 1.9 per cent of the payroll to be carried out on the other hand is limited, the evaluation is based on a further confirmation of the training data by the National Bank. This supplementary confirmation must be provided no later than in the third quarter of the year following the date the report was issued.
§ 4. For the application of § 1^er, the percentage of 1.9 can be replaced as early as 1^er January 2007, by a higher percentage determined by the King on the advice of the National Labour Council and the Central Council of the Economy, without this percentage being able to exceed by 0.2 percentage points the previous year. "
PART III. - Finance
CHAPTER I^er. - Miscellaneous provisions on social dialogue
Art. 25. The following amendments are made to section 154bis of the Income Tax Code 1992, inserted by the Act of 3 July 2005 and amended by the Program Law (I) of 27 December 2006:
1° Paragraph 3 is replaced by the following provision:
"The King may, by order deliberately in the Council of Ministers, increase the percentage referred to in paragraph 2 to maximum:
- 66.81 p.c. for a presumed hour to which a legal sursalary of 20 p.c. applies;
- 57.75 p.c. for a presumed hour to which a legal surcharge of 50 or 100 per cent applies."
2° the following paragraph is inserted between paragraphs 3 and 4:
"He will seize the Legislative Chambers immediately if they are met, if not at the opening of their next session, of a bill to confirm the orders made pursuant to the preceding paragraph. "
Art. 26. Article 275¹ the same Code, inserted by the Act of 3 July 2005 and amended by the Programme Act (I) of 27 December 2006, are amended as follows:
1° paragraph 4 is replaced by the following provision:
"The King may, by order deliberately in the Council of Ministers, increase the percentage referred to in paragraph 3 to maximum:
- 32.19 p.c. for a presumed hour to which a legal sursalary of 20 p.c. applies;
- 41.25 p.c. for a presumed hour to which a legal surcharge of 50 or 100 p.c. applies;
2° the following paragraph is inserted between paragraphs 4 and 5:
"He will seize the Legislative Chambers immediately if they are met, if not at the opening of their next session, of a bill to confirm the orders made pursuant to the preceding paragraph. "
Art. 27. Sections 25 and 26 apply to compensation for hours claimed as additional work paid or assigned from 1^er April 2007.
Art. 28. In title VI, chapter I, section IV, of the same Code, an article 275 is inserted⁷, as follows:
“Article 275⁷.- Employers defined in paragraph 2 who pay or assign remuneration and who are liable from the Professional Account on such remuneration under section 270, 1°, are exempted from paying part of the Professional Account to the Treasury, provided that the totality of the said advance is retained on such remuneration.
The provisions of this section shall apply:
- to employers who are included in the scope of the Act of 5 December 1968 on collective labour agreements and parity commissions;
- to companies approved for interim work that make interim arrangements available to companies covered by the first dash.
The professional pre-payment that must not be paid is equal to 0.25 p.c. of the gross amount of compensation before deduction of personal social security contributions.
The King shall determine the terms and conditions of application of this article. "
Art. 29. Section 28 applies to remuneration paid or awarded from 1^er October 2007.
Art. 30. In title VI, chapter I, section IV, of the same Code, an article 275 is inserted⁸ as follows:
« Art. 275⁸ This section is applicable to employers who are exclusively engaged in mushroom cultivation and fall under the parity committee of horticulture and who are liable for professional pre-payment under section 270, 1°.
Employers referred to in paragraph 1^er shall not be required to pay to the Consolidated Revenue Fund part of the Professional Account to which they are liable because of the payment or award of the taxable remuneration referred to in section 273, 1°, to the workers. However, this provision may only be applied to the professional pre-count retained in accordance with section 272.
The professional pre-payment that is not to be paid is equal to 6 p.c. of the gross amount of remuneration and this before deduction of personal social security contributions.
In order to benefit from the waiver of the professional pre-payment referred to in this section, the employer must provide, on the occasion of its statement to the professional pre-payment, proof that the workers for whom the exemption is invoked were occupied, during the period to which the declaration to the occupational pre-payment relates, in the mushroom crop. The King sets out the terms and conditions for the administration of this evidence. "
Art. 31. The King shall, by order deliberately in the Council of Ministers, establish the date of entry into force of Article 30.
Art. 32. Article 31 of the Act of 3 July 2005 on various provisions relating to social dialogue, the words "1^er January 2007" are each time replaced by the words "1^er January 2009".
CHAPTER II. - Amendment of section 31 bis of the Income Tax Code 1992 and section 289 of the Act of 27 December 2006 on various provisions
Art. 33. In section 31 bis of the Income Tax Code 1992, replaced by the Act of 27 December 2006, the following amendments are made:
1° the opening sentence of paragraph 1^er, 1°, is replaced by the following provision:
"1° the costs and additional benefits obtained by the worker during a period of inactivity, resumption of work with another employer or resumption of work as an independent. The above-mentioned supplementary allowances are, provided that the obligation of the former employer to continue the payment of these benefits after resumption of work is effectively mentioned in a collective labour agreement or in an individual agreement providing for the payment of the supplementary allowance; »;
2° paragraph 1^er, 1°, second dash, is replaced by the following provision:
" - the supplementary allowances obtained directly or indirectly by a former worker who has attained the age of 50 and who has benefited from unemployment benefits as a complete unemployed person or who could benefit from it if he had not resumed work and provided that the agreement in question is not a sectoral labour agreement concluded before September 30, 2005 or a sectoral agreement that extends such an agreement without interruption; »;
3° the article is supplemented by the following provision:
“The costs consist of:
1° an unemployment benefit:
2° a supplementary allowance referred to in Article 4, § 3, second dash, of the collective labour agreement No. 17 of 19 December 1974 establishing a supplementary compensation scheme for certain older workers, in the event of termination, as well as the compensation referred to in a collective labour agreement concluded in accordance with the provisions of the law of 5 December 1968 concerning the collective labour agreements and the parity commissions, which provides for benefits at least "
Art. 34. In section 289 of the Act of 27 December 2006 on various provisions (I), the following amendments are made:
1° Paragraph 4 is replaced as follows:
"Sections 276, 282, 1°, and 283 are applicable to supplementary allowances paid or awarded from 1^er January 2006. »;
2° the following paragraph is inserted between paragraphs 4 and 5:
"Section 282, 2°, applies to supplementary allowances paid or awarded as of January 1, 2007. "
Art. 35. Section 33 applies to supplementary allowances paid or awarded from 1^er January 2007.
CHAPTER III. - Amendments to the Income Tax Code 1992 in respect of pension tax reduction and replacement income
Art. 36. In section 146 of the Income Tax Code 1992, last amended by the Act of 27 December 2006, the following amendments are made:
(a) in the 1st, the words ", including prepensions" are deleted;
(b) 2° is repealed.
Art. 37. In section 147 of the same Code, last amended by the Act of 27 December 2006, the following amendments are made:
1° 2° is replaced as follows:
"2° where net income is partially comprised of pensions or other alternative income: a quotity of the amount referred to in 1°, proportionate to the ratio between, on the one hand, the net amount of pensions and other alternative income and, on the other, the amount of net income, excluding:
(a) the salary obtained from the new employer or income obtained from a new professional activity as an independent, in the case of obtaining:
a supplementary allowance referred to in section 31 bis, paragraph 3, 2°;
a supplementary allowance referred to in section 31 bis, paragraph 3, 2°, with a supplementary allowance referred to in section 31 bis, paragraph 1^er1°, first dash, and 2;
- a supplementary allowance referred to in section 31 bis, paragraph 1^ersecond indent and second indent 2;
(b) business income, in the case of a taxpayer who has attained the legal age of retirement, a legal pension that does not exceed the amount referred to in section 154, § 2, 1°, or in the case of obtaining a survival pension; »;
2° the article is supplemented by the following paragraph:
"By revenue of activities referred to in paragraph 1^er, 2°, we hear less professional income:
1° of income referred to in Article 23, § 1^er5°;
2° of total or partial compensation for temporary loss of income. "
Art. 38. Section 154 of the Code, last amended by the Act of 23 December 2005, is replaced by the following provision:
"Art. 154. § 1^er. An additional reduction is granted where all net revenues consist exclusively of pension or alternative income.
The additional reduction is calculated according to the rules set out in the following paragraphs.
§ 2. The additional reduction is equal to the tax that remains after the application of sections 147 to 152, where all net revenues are composed exclusively:
1° of pension or alternative income and that the total amount of such income does not exceed the maximum amount of the legal unemployment benefit, not including the old-age supplement granted to older unemployed persons;
2° of unemployment benefits and that the amount of these benefits does not exceed the maximum amount of the legal unemployment benefit, if any, including the added amount of seniority granted to the unemployed, when the taxpayer has reached the age of 50 by 1^er January of the taxation year;
3° of statutory health insurance in the event of illness or disability and that the amount of such income does not exceed the ten ninths of the maximum amount of the legal unemployment benefit, not including the old age supplement granted to the elderly unemployed.
When a common taxation is established, all net income of both spouses is considered for the purposes of paragraph 1^er.
§ 3. In cases other than those referred to in § 2, the additional reduction is equal to the positive difference between:
1° the amount of the tax that remains after the application of sections 147 to 152 and
2° the difference between:
- where all net income consists exclusively of alternative pension or income, such replacement pension or income and the maximum amount applicable in accordance with § 2, 1°;
- when all net income consists exclusively of unemployment benefits, these unemployment benefits and the maximum amount applicable in accordance with § 2, 2°;
- where all net income consists exclusively of statutory sickness or disability insurance, these legal insurance benefits in the event of illness or disability and the maximum amount applicable in accordance with § 2, 3°.
In the case referred to in paragraph 1^er, 2°, first draw, the additional reduction, if any, is apportioned in proportion to the quotity of the tax that remains after the application of sections 147 to 152 and relating respectively to pensions or other alternative incomes, unemployment benefits or legal insurance in the event of illness or disability and the total of the tax that remains after the application of sections 147 to 152.
Where a common taxation is established, both the total net income and the amount of the sub-tax of both spouses shall be considered for the purposes of paragraph 1^er.
The additional reduction thus calculated is distributed proportionally to the amount of the tax of each spouse that remains after the application of sections 147 to 152.
Where applicable, section 153 applies to the sum of the reduction determined under sections 147 to 152 and the additional reduction determined under this subsection. "
Art. 39. Sections 36, 37 and 38 apply to income paid or awarded from 1^er January 2007.
CHAPTER IV. - Amendment of Article 515bis of the Income Tax Code 1992
Art. 40. In section 515bis of the Income Tax Code 1992, inserted by the Act of 28 December 1992 and amended by the Acts of 17 May 2000 and of 23 December 2005, the last paragraph is supplemented as follows:
"The amount of 50,000 euros is adjusted annually and simultaneously to the UK Consumer Price Index in accordance with Article 178. "
Art. 41. Section 40 applies to liquidated capital from 1^er January 2006.
Promulgate this law, order that it be clothed with the seal of the State and published by the Belgian Monitor.
Given in Brussels on 17 May 2007.
ALBERT
By the King:
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance,
D. REYNDERS
Minister of Social Affairs
R. DEMOTTE
Minister of Employment,
P. VAN VELTHOVEN
State seal
The Minister of Justice,
Ms. L. ONKELINX
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Notes
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