Almost one in five healthcare companies uses flexi-job workers

The research, based on more than 1,300 employers, shows that it is mainly women who work extra jobs in the healthcare sector. It concerns 80.7 percent. It is also striking that three in ten flexi-job workers in healthcare are retirees.

On January 1, 2023, the federal government made it possible to work in healthcare under the status of a flexi-job. This scheme allows employers to hire people who are already employed elsewhere for at least four-fifths in a tax-efficient manner. Since April 1, 2024, Flemish childcare centers have also been allowed to use flexi-jobs, provided that childcare is the employer’s main activity.

However, flexi-job workers are not permitted to perform care tasks. They therefore have to perform tasks such as reception and accounting. “Flexi-jobs allow nurses, medical staff and child care workers to concentrate maximally on their care tasks, and less on peripheral tasks,” explains Ellen Van Grunderbeek, legal expert in the healthcare sector at Acerta. “We certainly see that the healthcare sectors, which can use every extra pair of hands, are already using this quite regularly for the time being.”