Luxembourg

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Info Salary

Minimum gross wage

Applicable

13.048 EUR per hour for unskilled workers

15.6552 EUR per hour for skilled workers

Salary per category

Unskilled

13.1372 EUR to 14.5396 EUR per hour : construction and civil engineering unskilled workers without any experience of construction work

15.7648 EUR per hour : construction and civil engineering novice professionals

13.046 EUR to 14.4985 EUR per hour electricians :

13.046 EUR per hour sanitation-heating-air conditioning installers :

13.046 EUR to 16.285 EUR per hour for lift professionals

13.046 EUR to 15.6552 EUR per hour tilesetters

13.046 EUR to 15.4927 EUR per hour roofing workers

Skilled

15.9565 EUR to 17.5667 EUR per hour : construction and civil engineering

13.046 EUR to 16.0112 EUR per hour electricians :

15.6552 EUR to 17.1552 EUR per hour sanitation-heating-air conditioning installers :

14.6593 EUR to 20.8634 EUR per hour for lift professionals

15.8392 EUR to 17.0859 EUR per hour tilesetters

15.6552 EUR to 16.9267 EUR per hour roofing workers

Specialist

20.0438 EUR per hour : construction and civil engineering

15.6552 EUR to 18.2025 EUR per hour electricians :

19.4363 EUR per hour sanitation-heating-air conditioning installers :

18.5952 EUR to 22.4737 EUR per hour for lift professionals

18.3068 EUR per hour tilesetters

18.2846 EUR to 20.6598 EUR per hour roofing workers

Foreman

21.7028 EUR per hour : construction and civil engineering

15.6552 EUR to 23.8983 EUR per hour electricians :

Beginners / young workers

9.7845 to 10.4388 EUR workers under 18 years of age

Info Working time

Daily

8 hours

Weekly

40 hours

Overtime

10 hours per day

48 hours per week

Breaks

Lunch

30 minutes

Not paid

Paid breaks :

Construction and civil engineering : 15 minutes with minimum 9 working hours

Roofing workers : 15 minutes

Info Travel abroad and lodging

Within Luxembourg

Travel allowance

- Construction and civil engineering: Employer organizes transport of workers from home to construction sites
- Other: when use of private car, the firm pays an allowance per kilometre normally limited to the distance between the firm headquarters and the work site.

Accommodation allowance

Only for work abroad

Info

Work abroad: normally >50 km from the border and/or when the employer cannot provide the transport

Subsistence/daily allowance

744 EUR per day for work abroad

Info

Work abroad: normally >50 km from the border

Info Premiums

Overtime

40 % per hour

Info

Overtime remains exceptional (urgent repair work, urgent work with concrete, inconvenient sites for other workers, plant production and traffic circulation). HR has to agree. Work Labour inspectorate and social insurance must be informed in case of overtime work on Sunday, public holidays and night work.

Night work

From 10:00 pm to 6:00 am

50 % per hour

After 5 day(s) : 20 % per hour - on a regular planning

Working on Sundays

100 % per hour

Working on public holidays

100 % per hour

Info

Bank holiday worked must be compensated by another vacation day

Hazardous work

0.5 EUR per hour - construction and civil engineering

10 % per hour - painters

Info

Construction and civil engineering: dirty works, on water and with important level of mud, suspended scaffold higher >15m from the ground, use of hydraulic hammers in excavators and pneumatic picks with more than 15kg, shafts and tunnels with openings under 1m and deeper than 3.6m and ADR transport.

Painters: varnishing with spray, use of hazardous chemicals, sandblasting, working outside without scaffold at a height >6m or painting façades with sliding ladders except paint of windows and window shutters.

Standby pay

Lift professionals: 2.9994 €/day - 6.4079 €/day (Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays) indexed

Sanitation-heating-air conditioning installers: negotiated with the employee

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Lift professionals: standby limit of 128 hours/week.

Additional wage components

Construction and civil engineering : 5 % of gross salary

Painters, lift professionals: 5 % of gross salary

Electricians : 2 % of gross salary

Roofing workers : 2.5 to 5 % of gross salary (depending on the seniority in the firm)

Sanitation-heating-air conditioning installers : 2 to 5 % of gross salary (depending on the seniority in the firm)

Tilesetters 150 EUR per year as equipment allowance

Paid on december

Other

80 % for hours not recovered before the end of the month

Info

For the first 16 hours the employer is in charge. For the rest, the State takes the responsibility of the payment

Info Holidays

Number of holidays

26 days per year

27 days in construction and civil engineering

26 to 29 days for lift professionals

Public holidays

10 days

1st January

Easter Monday

1st May

Ascension Day

Whit Monday

23rd June

15th August

1st November

25th and 26th December

Info Wage deductions

Social security contributions

2.8 % for health insurance

8 % for pension insurance

1.4 % for health care insurance

Income tax

0 to 40 % according to the tax class and the position of the income value in the official tax scale

0.5 % temporary tax to balance the state budget

Info

Class 1: especially singles and unmarried.
Class 1a: long-term widows/widowers, employees with dependent child/ren, seniors, non-residents in the country if one of spouses realizes a professional income in Luxembourg.
Class 2: couples collectively taxed, widows/widowers and divorced/separated for less than 3 years, non-residents in the country if 50% of income of the family is realized in Luxembourg.

Info Sickness and injuries

Sickness/illness

100 %

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77 days at charge of the employer (reference period of 12 months) based on the higher salary of the 3 months before the Sick Leave.
After the 77th day, the National Health Fund pay the Sick Leave until a limit of 52 weeks per period of 104 weeks).

Work injuries/accidents

100 %

Info

77 days at charge of the employer (reference period of 12 months) based on the higher salary of the 3 months before the Sick Leave.
After the 77th day, the National Health Fund pays the Sick Leave up to a limit of 52 weeks per period of 104 weeks).

Info Contacts

Hotline OGBL

Tel. +352 26543 777

W. http://www.ogbl.lu/syndicat-batiment/

E. info@ogbl.lu

You can contact us in the following languages

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Luxembourg

Minimum gross wage

Salary per category

Unskilled

Skilled

Specialist

Foreman

Beginners / young workers

Daily

Weekly

Overtime

Breaks

Lunch

Within Luxembourg

Travel allowance

Accommodation allowance

Subsistence/daily allowance

Overtime

Night work

Working on Sundays

Working on public holidays

Hazardous work

Standby pay

Additional wage components

Other

Number of holidays

Public holidays

Social security contributions

Income tax

Sickness/illness

Work injuries/accidents

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