NEW FEDERAL LEARNING ACCOUNT: OBLIGATION TO REGISTER PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN 2024
With the Act of 20 October 2023 (published on 1 December 2023 ), the legislator has introduced the Federal Learning Account (FLA). The FLA has as a purpose to give workers access to information regarding their individual right to training, based on the Labour Deal Act of 2022.
On the basis of art. 52 of the Labour Deal Act, the principle of individual training credit means, in general, that every full-time employee in a company with at least 20 employees will be entitled to five days of training per year (as of 2024). For more information on this principle and exceptions, we refer to our article of 2022 regarding this topic.
Until now, the individual training right remained, more or less, widely ignored in practice. Therefore, the legislator has worked out a system to give more transparency to workers regarding their rights which will make it easier for them to claim their right to training.
Via a website, www.mycarreer.be, workers will see the following data:
- The number of training days workers are entitled to based on the Labour Deal Act or sector provisions.
- The number of training days that workers have followed/taken up.
- The trainings that they have followed (and details regarding these trainings)
- The remaining training credits (still to be taken up)
- Information regarding employability-enhancing measures.
