Social Security Extended for Teleworking Cross-border Workers until end December

Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany and France have extended their agreement on cross-border workers' social security affiliation for teleworking until 31 December 2020.

After the agreement in July 2020 with Belgium, Germany and France to maintain the exceptional provision not to take into account the teleworking days linked to the COVID-19 crisis for the determination of the applicable social security legislation for cross-border workers, Luxembourg and its three neighbouring countries have agreed to extend this exemption until the end of the year.

Concretely, this means that a cross-border worker who carries out his / her work from home will continue to be affiliated to the Luxembourg social security system until the end of 2020.

Working from home can have consequences on the affiliation of cross-border workers to social security under the provisions of European legislation relating to the coordination of social security systems of member states. Consequently, Luxembourg's Minister of Social Security, Romain Schneider, has been in contact with his Belgian, German and French counterparts from the beginning of the crisis to find an agreement to avoid a change in affiliation if a certain threshold (25%) was exceeded for the workers and employers concerned.