Proposition 50K2109

Projet de loi portant des dispositions diverses relatives à la généralisation de la déclaration immédiate de l'emploi.

General information ¶

Submitted by

Groen Open Vld Vooruit PS | SP Ecolo MR Verhofstadt Ⅰ

Submission date

Nov. 6, 2002

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Status

Adopted

Requirement

Simple

Subjects

administrative formalities work social security

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Discussion ¶

Dec. 17, 2002 | Plenary session (Chamber of representatives)

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Mr. Speaker, I will be brief because this project, carried out in consultation and in agreement with the social partners, has met a broad support of the members of our committee. This project, which was adopted unanimously by the members of the committee, will lead to greater transparency, efficiency and simplification in the relations between the world of work and the administration.

Mr. Speaker, I will be even shorter than just because the declaration I made applied to the various bills relating to administrative simplification, thus not only social security, but also Dimona — the immediate declaration — including. I think we should refer here, Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Minister, colleagues, to work that was already started in the previous legislature. Indeed, it has taken a lot of time before the social partners have also reached an agreement providing for a working formula of immediate declaration by the employer of any employment of a new worker. I think that with Dimona and with the draft law as presented here, all the advice, suggestions and concerns that the social partners have given in their various opinions in the National Labour Council have been correctly implemented. Also the advice given in this regard by the Cross Point Bank for Social Security has been completed in a very correct manner.

Therefore, during the discussion in the committee, we approved this bill without any hesitation. I hope, Mrs. Minister, that this is an incentive for the social partners, for the government and for the Parliament to remove, in the very short term, the last obstacles in the context of administrative simplification and the equalization of a number of provisions used in social legislation — labour contracts, labour law or social security law — so that our legislation on employment contracts and labour law as well as our social security and social security law again becomes a little more transparent.

Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Deputy Prime Minister, dear colleagues, the bill that is submitted to us today is part of the global debate on the modernization of the management of social security. It is part of the policy of administrative simplification and the establishment of e-government, one of the fundamental objectives of the government statements of this legislature.

It is true that administrative formalities imposed on ⁇ and SMEs in particular are costly. The number of working hours devoted by the employer to the completion of administrative formalities is becoming increasingly insurmountable.

Administrative simplifications are needed in many areas. This government gives us full satisfaction in this regard.

This bill aims to put an end to the obligations of the employer with regard to certain social documents, given the expansion of the scope of immediate employment declaration.

Employers may be exempted from the obligation to register, in a general register of staff held in a central place, the workers for whom an immediate declaration of employment is made.

In addition, the provisions relating to social identity cards A and B are repealed.

With the widespread application of the immediate job report, employers will also be automatically exempted from the obligation to send a copy of the student employment contract to the Social Law Inspection. This very positive measure will ⁇ encourage employers to hire young people during school holidays.

We welcome all these administrative simplification measures that were a priority for our group.

That is why, Mr. President, Mrs. Deputy Prime Minister, Dear colleagues, the Reform Movement Group will support this bill.

Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Deputy Prime Minister, the VLD was the party asking for the simplification of the job plans. In the words of our unfortunately prematurely deceased colleague Aimé Desimpel, “keep it simple”. The VLD was a requesting party. In the committee, our group emphasized that we respect the many work of the administrations that took over the 10 years that preceded it.

The implementation that is urgently needed for employers will finally happen. The simplification of the employment plans and the associated generalization of Dimona responds to a long-standing demand from employers and is, in our opinion, a patch on the wound for the postponement of the second phase of the burden reduction which, under the pressure of the penible economic conditions, must wait for itself. The simplification of the job plans is a first step that is still subject to expansion and deepening.

The VLD is already satisfied with the equal treatment for the reduction in respect of workers and servants. However, we believe that the flat-rate reduction should be further strengthened as soon as the budget allows it and a number of selective reductions may be extended. We think in the first place of the measure for the 58+ who, in our opinion, should be extended so that we can do more work on the reactivation of the older workers. The VLD is in favour of systematically expanding the target group to those over 50.

A minus point for the VLD is the maintenance of the 33% threshold. The Minister said that this is being negotiated with the social partners. What is the state of affairs? For the VLD, the 33% threshold should be abolished in order not to discourage part-time work and outsourcing. My group continues to regret that the exemption measures for PWA members remain intact. We remain convinced that the flow from the PWA is too small and too limited and is a deficiency in the labour market.

Mr. Speaker, on the one hand, I would like to point out to our colleague that, as part of their inter-professional agreement, the social partners have decided to revise this famous threshold of 33% to lower it to 27,5%.

I would like, on the other hand, to congratulate Parliament for having unanimously accepted the work carried out by our administrations, by the social partners. This project has a triple impact. It will allow for drastic administrative simplification needed in the labour market. As employers say, this project will result in an increase in the employment rate. But it will also help to reduce black work. We are a champion in this field at the European Union level! Through this project, as well as through the simplification of employment plans, we are moving very vigorously towards a more comprehensive administrative simplification that was one of the priorities of the government.