Luxembourg: the social partners at cross-industry level agree on a new teleworking framework

On 20 October Luxembourg’s social partners including the LCGB and OGBL trade unions and the UEL employer’s body signed a new cross-industry teleworking agreement. In this way, the social partners avoid the need for the government to adapt its 2006 legislative framework. They have as such ‘modernized’ the framework and are asking the government to give the agreement mandatory generalized scope.

Through . Published on 21 October 2020 à 16h42 - Update on 21 October 2020 à 16h56

Telework is defined as a form of work organization or performance, generally using ICT, so that work, which would normally have been performed on the employer’s premises, is undertaken outside those premises.

This new agreement applies to all those who telework except for:

  • posted workers
  • the transportation sector in its broadest sense (excluding administration)
  • sales representatives
  • co-working spaces,…

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