The government is taking additional measures to enable companies to protect, and to help them in this crisis, and to survive

in The Core, which is extended to the presidents or the representatives of the ten political parties (N-VA, PS, MR, Ecolo, CD&V, Open VLD, sp.a, Groen, cdH, Challenge) ‘m virtually came together. On the agenda: a variety of easy decisions in the fight against the coronacrisis. In this way, all the companies are protected against any bankruptcy proceedings.

During this difficult period, each of the company, as a debtor in difficulty as a result of the Covid-19, to be protected from the execution, and seizure, adjudication, and judicial dissolution, . In addition, the terms of payment that are to be included in a plan of reorganization, will be extended. And agreements entered into prior to the date of entry into force of the royal decree and may not unilaterally or by termination.

The tax exemption on the voluntary overtime (220 hours) in the so-called critical sectors, will be extended until June 30, 2020.

• * * * The opportunity to temporarily unemployed workers in a more flexible manner and without any loss of income or profit in the gardening and forestry sector and to make it work: is made possible. For example, an employee for a full work day, for instance, the normal salary for the office held, and 75% of temporary benefits.

• flexibility with regard to flexible working hours , consulting, and part-time employment for the temporary provision of full-time employees of other companies to employers in the critical sectors of life. The mechanisms to protect workers against social dumping, including the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value, will of course continue to apply.

•of The w erkuren of the students in the second half, and by 2020, it will have to be neutralised , so that they are not to be taken into account in the calculation of the quota (475 hours per year). Students of the labor force reinforce the critical sectors, such as retail trade and the food industry.

The option , short of successive fixed-term contracts in the critical sectors for a period of three months or less.

• asylum-Seekers are given access to the labour market: , on the condition that their application is submitted to the CGRS. They will also have the opportunity to work with them for the duration of the procedure, including the period of any appeal against the decision, which is submitted to the aliens litigation Council. The goal is to have a lack of workers, especially seasonal workers, to be compensated for.

The degressivity of the unemployment benefit will be frozen during the great depression.

•The Core, the attachment of the overbruggingsrecht for the self-employed as secondary occupation: when it comes to self-employed persons who, up to the contributions; “customized” for the particular self-employed people in each area (with an annual income of between 6996,89 and 13993,78), and an active old-age pensioners (income > 6996,89), which are required for their operations to be stopped by Covid-19.

•In the area of health, the legislative framework has been discussed, in order, as a last resort – it is possible to create a health workforce which has not been used before the financial crisis, will be requisitioned. to the already existing contingent of health professionals who are able to assist in the management of the crisis, in particular in residential care centres, in order to maintain or even to increase it. Whether the staff will be requisitioned depending upon the urgency of the situation. Volunteer recruitment and support provided by the staff that is currently in an economic alliance, is the preferred option.

•There was talk about the powers of the legislative authority to temporarily delegate, to the minister of Health (rules and terms), and to the accountant-general of the RIZIV / inami (the technical aspects) in order to get access to health care is guaranteed. Thus, for example, alternatives to a physical consultation will be developed (as is already the case), you can have incremental adjustments for the refund to be applied to, or be able to providers that no longer meet the requirements to be protected (for example, consultations by video conferencing, if the requirement for a physical consultation, it was). These decisions have to be made in a focused dialogue with the insurance companies, and other service providers within the RIZIV / inami. The measures with an impact on the budget in an accounting, budgetary control, are subject.

Finally, at the meeting as well as the granting of a guarantee are discussed with reference to certain loans in the context of the fight against the economic consequences of the corona virus have been made. This decision has the purpose of a new credit of up to 50% in order to ensure that financial and non-financial enterprises, including the self-employed and natural persons in the non-profit sector. This measure comes into effect (1st of april) and this weekend will be finally adopted by the council of ministers, to be published in the official Gazette.

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