Care never stops, so care rotas are built around rotating early, late and night shifts, weekends included. Healthcare and care homes have been able to use flexi-jobs since 2023, which makes them relatively new to a scheme that horeca has run for a decade. That means the rota discipline is

In horeca, flexi-jobs are not an edge case, they are how you cover service. The sector has used them since 2015 and still runs more of them than any other. The practical problem is that horeca shifts are split (a lunch block and a dinner block), staff are often called

Retail runs on peaks: Saturdays, late-night shopping, the January and summer sales, and the run-up to the end of the year. Flexi-jobs, available to retail since 2018, are how many stores cover those peaks without carrying the cost year-round. The compliance catch is that a peak means a lot of

If a social inspector arrives to check your flexi-jobbers, the single question behind almost everything they ask is: was a valid same-day Dimona (DimDay) filed before each flexi shift started, and can you prove the hours actually worked? The SIOD/TSW and NSSO/RSZ check DimDay timestamps against real work, so the

Yes, retirees working flexi-jobs still need full time registration in 2026. The unlimited income a legally retired worker can earn on a flexi-job is a tax benefit, and it does not touch the registration rules at all. Since 1 July 2026 electronic time registration is mandatory for every flexi-jobber, and

On a busy Friday shift you might have a permanent supervisor, two variable part-timers, a student on the till and a flexi-jobber behind the bar. Each of those four people sits under a different legal regime, and each triggers a different registration obligation on the same clock. Managing a mixed

The real cost of a flexi-job to a Belgian employer is the flexi-wage you agree, plus a 28% employer social security contribution on top of it, plus flexi holiday pay. The worker pays 0% in contributions and, up to the annual tax-free threshold, keeps almost all of it, which is

DimDay is the same-day version of the Dimona declaration, and every flexi-job shift needs one. Before a flexi-job worker starts, you must file a Dimona naming that worker for that day, and it has to be filed before work begins. There is no grace period and it cannot be done

To work a flexi-job in Belgium, a person must clear one of two eligibility routes. Either they were already employed at least 4/5 of a full-time job with one or more other employers during the reference quarter, known as Q-3, or they are legally retired. The 4/5 rule is the