A business owner in Luxembourg who wants to hire personnel and needs help can declare a job vacancy at the National Employment Administration. This can be done online or by filling a form (declaration of vacant position). Employers should always keep in mind that Luxembourg has a special employment legislation for certain categories of workers.
Hiring workers in Luxembourg
When submitting a job vacancy to the National Employment Administration, the employers must fill the designated form for the profile of the worker they are looking for. The types of workers that can be recruited are:
- salaried worker;
- disabled worker;
- apprentice;
- worker with reduced work capacity;
- worker from a non-EU country.
In order to submit an application for a vacant position destined for an apprentice, employers must firstly meet the criteria that make them eligible to train apprentices. In order to become an apprentice, someone should be an adolescent or an adult and the apprenticeship combines theoretical and general training offered by a technical school and practical training in a business supervised by the employer.
The conditions that the employer must fulfill concern the protection of young workers and other categories of workers, like pregnant workers. Employers should know that the apprenticeship contract is not equivalent to the employment contract.
Special conditions for hiring workers in Luxembourg
A private sector
employer in Luxembourg, who has more than 25 workers, must hire at least one disabled worker on a full-time basis. The number of disabled workers grows as the number of the other employees increases for businesses that have more workers. If an employer hired more disabled workers than the rate mandatory by law, he is exempt from paying his share of the social security contributions for these workers.
When using the National Employment Administration to find personnel, employers should know that the offers are generally published anonymously. The job offer is considered vacant for two months.