Belgium: Important notice regarding temporary unemployment due to force majeure from November 2020

Submitted by siha on Thu, 11/05/2020 - 19:18
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ONEM (03.11.2020) Currently, for employers who are not recognized as a particularly affected company or belonging to a particularly affected sector, this temporary unemployment still requires electronic communication from the employer to the ONEM. A simplification of the procedure being envisaged, these employers are not, for the moment, required to make this communication, which is not subject to a deadline.  

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A simplification of the procedure being envisaged, employers who are not recognized as a particularly affected company or belonging to a particularly affected sector are not, for the moment, required to make the communication to the ONEM.  

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Following the partial lockdown decision, a large number of workers will again have to resort to temporary unemployment due to force majeure from November 2020.

Currently, for employers who are not recognized as a particularly affected company or belonging to a particularly affected sector, this temporary unemployment still requires electronic communication from the employer to the ONEM.

A simplification of the procedure being envisaged, these employers are not, for the moment, required to make this communication, which is not subject to a deadline.  

For the same reason, employers who have not yet been recognized as a particularly affected company must not yet take steps to submit such a request to the ONEM, if this request concerns temporary unemployment from November 2020.

The other ordinary procedures continue to apply provisionally (notifications of temporary unemployment for economic reasons, issuance of control cards, etc. by employers who are not recognized as being particularly affected or belonging to a sector particularly affected).