Tackling undeclared work database

  The system of ‘Local employment agencies’ (Agences locales pour l’emploi/Plaatselijke werkgelegenheidsagentschappen, ALE/PWA) was the first attempt to transfer certain household services into the formal labour market in Belgium. Up to then, many of these services were made available through undeclared work. Through the ALE/PWA, long-term unemployed people can carry out neighbourhood services for private persons, local authorities, non-profit associations or schools.  

  The international migration information system LIMOSA (Landenoverschrijdend Informatiesysteem Migratie Onderzoek Sociaal Administratief) is a federal government project which has been set up to prepare the country for the complete opening of the labour market for workers from the new EU Member States on 1 May 2009. LIMOSA represents an instrument of control in the fight against fraud and the unfair competition of foreign workers who accept work at below-market wages and disregard Belgian labour laws and regulations.  

  Dimona (Déclaration IMmédiate/ONmiddellijke Aangifte) is an electronic system all employers are requested to use to register a new employee with the National Office for Social Security (Rijksdienst voor Sociale Zekerheid, RSZ). Every time an employee is hired by or leaves an employer, an electronic notification is submitted to all social security agencies.  

Over the last 10 years, Belgium has developed and pioneered a policy of electronic collection and exchange of administrative data in its social security system. It is believed that specific measures seeking to spread electronic government processes (e-government) throughout all bodies involved in the social security system could strengthen measures seeking to combat social and fiscal fraud. On 2 July 2008, the country’s Council of Ministers launched its first global action plan seeking to combat social and fiscal fraud in Belgium.