Unemployment and pensions protection in Europe: the changing role of social partners - Belgium

"This report aims at describing and interpreting how occupational welfare (OW) schemes, especially supplementary pension schemes (SPS) and temporary unemployment (TU) schemes are developing in Belgium and what has been and still is the role of various actors, focusing mainly on social partners...

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Main Authors: Ghailani, Dalila, Peña-Casas, Ramón
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Brussels 2016
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19104270124919224529-unemployment-and-pensions-prot.htm
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author Ghailani, Dalila
Peña-Casas, Ramón
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Peña-Casas, Ramón
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description "This report aims at describing and interpreting how occupational welfare (OW) schemes, especially supplementary pension schemes (SPS) and temporary unemployment (TU) schemes are developing in Belgium and what has been and still is the role of various actors, focusing mainly on social partners and the State. The report shows that the debate on OW has emerged recently in Belgium, mainly focused on supplementary pensions and health insurance provisions. The issue of SPS is a political and financial one. Over the past decade, the government has encouraged employers to introduce pension schemes for their workers in response to the ageing population and the expected difficulties in financing state pensions in the future. Regarding unemployment protection, the TU scheme is a particular form of general statutory unemployment insurance protection. It also has features related to occupational welfare and is limited to workers employed in companies initiating a specific procedure to access the TU scheme. It is not an essential issue in Belgian social dialogue. The results are based on research and reports published since 2003, available administrative and statistical data, and documents made public by the social partners. Relevant collective agreements in the retail and automotive sectors were analysed and interviews with trade unionists carried out."
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publishDate 2016
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spellingShingle Ghailani, Dalila
Peña-Casas, Ramón
labour relations
occupational pension scheme
pension scheme
social partners
unemployment
welfare state
Unemployment and pensions protection in Europe: the changing role of social partners - Belgium
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title Unemployment and pensions protection in Europe: the changing role of social partners - Belgium
topic labour relations
occupational pension scheme
pension scheme
social partners
unemployment
welfare state
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19104270124919224529-unemployment-and-pensions-prot.htm