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About 1.4 million employees – half of those who are employed by a private company – will receive a corona check this year. This is the conclusion of research from the entrepreneurial organization Unizo. All together, 50,000 companies spend 400 million euros on the premium. This can be read in De Tijd.
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Source: BELGIAN
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The corona premium is a check for a maximum of 500 euros, following the tax-friendly example of the eco and meal vouchers. It can be used as a means of payment in 40,000 stores. Only it was never intended that so many people would get it.
The corona check was intended for ‘companies that feel comfortable giving that premium’, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (Open VLD) explained in an interview last year. ‘It is not the intention to decide at sector level that all companies must give a certain minimum amount.’
However, that has happened, according to data that Unizo requested from check companies such as Edenred and Sodexo. This is because the unions have usually won the premium in sectoral wage negotiations. In three out of four rounds of negotiations, the link with the good performance of the company has disappeared or been diluted. This was possible because it was never defined what a ‘good performance’ is.
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