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My HR Update - January 2024
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• 1 January 2024: New social parameters
• 1 January 2024: New parameters for withholding tax
• Increase in the value and digitalisation of meal vouchers
• Teleworking: finally 34 days for Germany !
• Double public holiday of 9 May 2024
• Social elections 2024
• Remember to declare the teleworking income of your employees residing in France

Pinboard - October 2023
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• Salary indexation as at 1 September 2023 
• Anticipated reduction in Employers’ Mutual Insurance Scheme contribution rates 
• Hiring of third country nationals made easier! 
• Work - life balance: New “flexible working arrangements” 
• 2024: New parameters for withholding tax at source 
• Get your leave counters ready! 
• Meal vouchers: Possible increase in face value of up to €15 
• Social elections 2024 

Pinboard - July 2023
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• The Economic Tax Credit : finally voted !
• Token and telework declaration for cross-border employees
• Germany: 34-day tax tolerance threshold soon !
• Work-life balance : two new extraordinary leaves
• Extension of paternity leave
• Meal vouchers: possible increase in face value to €15 as of 2024
• Entry into force of the right to disconnect since the 4th July
• Protection of whistleblowers : have you set up your internal reporting channel?
• Third-country nationals who are family members of EU citizens:  end of transitional period for paper documents 

Pinboard - April2023
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• 1st april 2023 : new wage indexation
• New earnings brackets for seizure and assignment for wage
• New law about workplace mobbing
• Reminder about tax cards
• News about posting 
• STM - medical questionnaire
• Last mile for your INFPC file
• Contribution to the chamber of employees

Pinboard - January 2023
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• January 2023: New social parameters for the calculation of wages
• Benefit in kind – company cars: new rates as of 2023 and 2025
• Abolition of the advance payment of social security contributions
• Salary indexations to be expected!
• Teleworking: tax and social security tolerance thresholds
• Profit sharing bonus : group results taken into account
• Tax regime for impatriates: easing of eligibility conditions
• Temporary VAT reduction

Pinboard - October 2022
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• 2023: Forthcoming index brackets and increase in the minimum social wage (MSW)
• Abolition of advance payments of social security contributions
• Teleworking by French border residents: increase in the tax tolerance threshold to 34 days and forthcoming tax simplification for the employer
• Partial unemployment and the energy crisis
• Aid to companies particularly hard hit by the rising energy prices
• Bill: introduction of two new extraordinary leaves
• Payroll Giving: give it some thought!

Pinboard - July 2022
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Telework and social security: Transition period until 31 December 2022
• Telework and taxation: No extension of freeze agreements
• Energy Tax Credit (ETC) and postponement of next indexation to April 2023
• COVID-19: Reduction of the isolation period from 10 to 7 days
• Certificate of affiliation now available on MyGuichet.lu!
• Fleet: Aid to companies to invest in charging stations for electric vehicles

Pinboard - April 2022
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Wage indexation and new social parameters
• New energy tax credit
• Telework: extension of agreements
• Details on the implementation of telework
• End of family leave for COVID-19?
• Contribution to the Chamber of Employees
• Last mile for your INFPC file

Pinboard - January 2022
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Telework: extension of agreements:
• Various measures for the Covid-19 Pandemic
• Extension of certain employment measures
• Electronic withholding Tax Cards
• New parameters for the calculation of wages
• Reform of Company car Taxation
• Application for A1 certificates for French residents
• Electronic certificate of incapicity for work in Germany

Pinboard - October 2021
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Electronic tax cards: Remember to apply for and activate your token!
• Indexation is triggered!
• Telework: extension of agreements
• France backtracks on the new tax regime of the Franco-Luxembourgish tax treaty
• Covid Check in the company
• Recommendations of the Ministry of Health for returning to the office
• Reminder on leave carry-over
• ADEM: Digitalization of assignments

Pinboard - April 2021
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• Aid following the increase in the social minimum wage
• Extension of leave for family reasons
• New rules for short-time work
• What about VAT on company cars?
• What about public holidays falling on a weekend?
• Telework: extension of agreements
• The new electronic tax cards are coming

Pinboard – January 2021
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Increase of the social minimum wage
• New parameters for calculating wages
• Change of the CO₂ standard and impact on the payroll
• New developments for the 2021 tax cards
• Derogations following the covering of costs for COVID-19
• Abrogation of two Inland Revenue circulars: stock options and impatriates
• Apprenticeship bonus
• New rules concerning leave for family reasons in the context of the covid-19 pandemic

Pinboard – October 2020
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Family leave in the event of quarantine or isolation of a child
• Brexit: new formalities for the British nationals
• New collective bargaining agreement on telework
• Short-time working due to Covid-19: offset mechanism
• New legislation on occupational redeployment
• Government announcements for 2021
• Leasing: Think of the change in benefits in kind in January 2021!
• Telework for commuters: extension until 31st December 2020
• Social contribution: end of Covid-19 measures
• COVID-19: the STM replaces pre-recruitment examinations by an opinion on the file
• New bill: bonus for supporting apprenticeship

Pinboard – July 2020
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• End of the crisis period and its consequences
• New rules for short-time working
• Update for trainees
• Where are we on teleworking?
• Extension of leave for family support
• Simplification of change of address for non-residents
• Specific aspects for third-country nationals
• New: transmit your student contracts to the ITM via MyGuichet
• Franco-Luxembourgish tax treaty: signing of 2 amicable agreements

Pinboard – January 2020
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Indexation has been triggered
• Calculation of salaries – New social parameters
• Change in the CO₂ standard and impact on the payroll
• What are the rules concerning a public holiday that falls on a weekend?
• Reminder concerning the work permit

Pinboard - October 2019
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Calculation of holiday allowance
• Franco-Luxembourgish tax treaty already reformed!
• Implementation of an “employment inclusion assistance activity”
• Recognition of the right of an employee on leave to “disconnect”
• Postponement of the annual holiday
• What about the next wage indexation?

Pinboard - April 2019
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• What is Payroll Giving?
• Additional leave and official holiday
• New increase of minimum social wage planned
• Creation of a new tax credit
• New law for Time Savings Account (TSA)
• Deduction at source in France: Impact for Luxembourg?
• What about the next wage indexing?

Pinboard - January 2019
TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Increase of minimum social wage
• Calculation of salaries – new social parameters
• Changes in accommodation expenses abroad
• What about leave entitlements in 2019?
• New developments in cash benefits as of 1 January 2019