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The tax authorities announced changes to foreign business trip regulations. The minimum duration requirement is removed, and allowances for departure and return days will no longer be halved. These changes take effect retroactively from 1 January 2025.

The social partners have agreed on how to handle the partial return to work when calculating the year-end bonus. The time a worker spends working part-time will be considered as actual labour activities for up to twelve months.

From 1 November 2025, you will receive documents from the Federal Public Service (FPS) Finance only in digital format if you have indicated that you no longer wish to receive a paper version.

Full-time workers are entitled to 10 statutory public holidays each year. Generally, no work should be carried out on these days. Please note that these public holidays are mandatory, and the social inspection oversees compliance with this rule.

The option to apply for more flexible economic unemployment for your white-collar workers will end on 31 December 2025. However, the social partners have now agreed to extend this arrangement until 30 June 2029.

Your employee will need to demonstrate a longer career starting from 1 January 2026 to qualify for an allowance under the credit of time for end-of-career (landing path). The career requirement will gradually increase until 2030. For exceptional regimes, a collective agreeme...

The sector's agreement for 2023-2024 on work schedule communication is now extended through a collective labour contract dated 26 August 2025. This contract will be effective from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025, with the possibility of extension thereafter.

November has two public holidays. On 15 November, we celebrate the day of the German-speaking community, and the sector negotiations are gradually beginning.