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Social partners debate new family-related leave and part-time work measures

The government is currently in talks with social partners to introduce a new scheme that would allow employees to reduce their working hours by up to 10 percent in order to care for a child under the age of 13.

Labour Minister Marc Spautz met on Wednesday with representatives from both employer organisations and trade unions to discuss the proposal.
The measure, known as "part-time for family reasons", or "temps partiel pour raisons familiales", aims to give parents greater flexibility to balance work and family life.

However, trade unions have raised concerns that the option to reduce working hours, and therefore salary, will primarily benefit those on higher incomes who can afford to take a pay cut.

Both the Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions (LCGB) and the Independent Luxembourg Trade Union Confederation (OGBL) warn that such arrangements carry significant risks, particularly for women.

Employer representatives are not opposed in principle to a right of return to full-time work after a period of reduced hours for family reasons, but insist that the terms and conditions for the new scheme should be clearly defined.

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Differdange municipality defrauded of over €400,000

• The municipality of Differdange became the victim of a major fraud scheme during the development of its new municipal building. According to Mayor Guy Altmeisch, who confirmed information first reported by the Tageblatt newspaper, fraudsters intercepted correspondence between the municipality and an architecture firm working on the project.
  
• The criminals hacked into the architecture firm’s email server, then contacted the municipality by email to claim that the firm’s bank details had changed. One of the perpetrators also phoned municipal staff, further convincing them to process the payment to the new fraudulent bank account. As a result, a payment exceeding €407,000 was sent to the fraudsters.

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