‘Employees perform over half more overtime in three years’

Figures from LIANTIS from 30,000 employers and more than 300,000 employees amount to 3.45 million overtime for 2024, of which nearly 750,000 Relance-Overures. In 2021 it involved 2.23 million overtime hours, of which around 64,000 relnance overweights.

« Compared to 2023, in 2024 there was even more than doubling (+123 percent) of the number of Relance-Overweight performed, accounting for 22 percent of the share of all overtime, » adds Philippe Van Walleghem, expert labor law at entrepreneurial organization UNIZO. « The number of employers that offer overtime and the number of employees who perform relance-overtime continues to rise. It is striking that other species are increasingly increasing overtime. »

Relance-overtime is mainly used in construction, by servants (additional joint committee for employees), in the sector of the independent retail trade (PC201), and in the Free Professions of Hospitals.

UNIZO immediately connects a call to it, because the system of Relance -Overuurs ends at the end of June and would cause anxiety among employers anders. For example, the federal government must quickly work out a new regulation for UNIZO. “There is no time to lose, it sounds.

Minister of Work David Clarinval (MR) already told the newspaper Time to be busy preparing the new legislation. The intention is to submit it to the room as quickly as possible.

The measure came in 2021 to support companies after the Corona and the Energy Crisis.