As a result of skyrocketing inflation, most private sector employees will see their wages rise by a staggering 11.59 percent in January. This is apparent from an estimate by SD Worx. For the final percentage, we have to wait for the indices for November and December, emphasizes Geert Vermeir of the HR service provider.
This concerns the more than 500,000 white-collar workers who fall under the joint committee 200. Their wages are indexed every year on 1 January. This year the indexation was already 3.58 percent.
Other wage earners will also receive an annual indexation in January. This concerns in particular more than 143,000 employees in the catering industry (joint committee 302), almost 100,000 in the food industry (118 and 200), more than 96,000 in the transport sector (140) and about 55,000 in logistics (226). They too will see their wages rise in the same order of magnitude at the start of the year, although there are slight differences in the actual calculations.
In certain sectors, indexation is more gradual. For example, the wages of workers in the construction sector (joint committee 124) are adjusted quarterly, while those of healthcare workers (330) and white-collar workers in the chemical sector (207) – just like the wages of civil servants – are indexed on the basis of a pivotal mechanism. .
Inflation in Belgium rose to 12.27 percent in October, the statistical office Stabel announced today. This is the highest level since June 1975.
As a result, the pivotal index has again been exceeded, so that benefits and government wages will rise again. It is already the fifth time in a short time, after December, February, April and July. In addition, another exceedance would follow this year.
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