In December 2014, the age condition for time-credit at the end of an employee’s career has been modified from 55 to 60 years for the basic regime and from 50 to 55 years for some specific categories of workers (such as workers taking up time-credit in the frame of a restructuring, workers carrying out a heavy profession or who can prove a career of 35 years). The age of 55 for these specific categories of workers will continue to increase gradually in order to reach 60 years in 2019. However, on April 27, 2015 a new national Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) was entered into, allowing the joint committees and the undertakings to enter into an industry or company CBA to keep the age condition for these specific categories of employees at 55 for the period 2015-2016. This system of time-credit allows employees to reduce their working time at the end of their career and to benefit from an ‘interruption indemnity’ from the unemployment office (RVA-ONEM).
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