Open VLD needs to develop flexi-jobs, in the long run to all sectors – Muricas News

If it is determined by Open VLD, flexi-jobs ought to finally be allowed in all sectors. Within the coming weeks, the Flemish liberals wish to develop the system to extra sectors, resembling care capabilities.

Based on analysis by Acerta, the variety of flexi jobs has elevated by half in our nation previously yr. The system makes it doable for an worker or pensioner to earn some extra cash underneath sure situations, with out having to pay social safety contributions or taxes. In the present day it's restricted to, for instance, the catering, retail, sports activities, tradition and healthcare sectors.

On the time, Open VLD was an awesome advocate of flexi-jobs. Deputy Prime Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne sees Acerta’s figures as affirmation that the system is now making an necessary contribution to the expansion of many corporations and sectors. “We took care of the introduction of this method on the time. Now we see that increasingly individuals and sectors are utilizing it. Within the coming weeks, we wish to make sure that the system is expanded to many extra sectors,” says Van Quickenborne.

For instance, his occasion colleague Tania De Jonge is engaged on a invoice to use the system much more within the healthcare sector. In the present day, that is solely doable for non-care professions. De Jonge needs to open that as much as care capabilities. “We now need to take measures to alleviate the stress on healthcare workers,” the MP explains. “We should enable individuals who have the proper diplomas to assist out and thus assist fulfill the various and various care duties.”

In the long run, the Flemish liberals wish to make flexi-jobs doable in all sectors of the economic system. “Whenever you see what number of sectors are begging for workers who might be deployed flexibly, you understand how a lot potential we go away untapped,” says Van Quickenborne. “If somebody seems like performing some odd jobs outdoors working hours, or if an individual over 65 simply likes to do it, why ought to the federal government decide by which sectors that is allowed or not?”

The Flemish authorities has additionally requested to make flexi-jobs doable in training.