Blue Flash 10/25

ACLVB/CGSLB
Oct 31
4 min read

Our new website is here!

We are delighted to invite you to visit our completely redesigned ACLVB-CGSLB @ ING website . Over the past few months, we have been working hard on a complete overhaul, inspired by the many valuable suggestions from our members and subscribers; we sincerely thank you!

🔎 What can you expect?

A clearer structure
A clear presentation
A more direct and intuitive information offer

On our new information pages you can now quickly and easily find:

News and Updates
Changes in legislation and regulations
Information on working and employment conditions

The updated version is now online. We want to offer you even faster and easier access to the information you need.

👉 Be sure to keep following us and see how our new website can help you better soon!

Do you have any questions or comments?

You can always send them via our chat or via our email address to:

aclvb-cgslb@ing.com

You can also contact us personally

New wave of layoffs at ING: two CLT Wholesale Banking teams to disappear

While joint negotiations are currently suspended, ING management wastes no time and already announces bad news.

Within two years, two CLT Wholesale Banking teams will disappear.

This means that around 25 employees are facing great uncertainty about their future.

The layoff train keeps rolling, with an extra carriage added now and then, quietly.

As always, these announcements come at the end of the year, and as always, management jumps ahead of the facts.

This message comes before negotiations, with no clarity on the conditions. In two years? Maybe…

But once again, our colleagues don’t know what awaits them.

The uncertainty ING is creating leaves deep scars. What happens to my loan(s)? How do I arrange childcare, now that nursery places are so expensive and scarce? Can I still renovate my house to be energy-efficient? Can my children continue their studies? How do I get another vehicle?

And then there’s the most painful question: how do I find a new job?

Even young people with strong profiles struggle to find a place within ING, which continues to outsource its expertise to Manila, Poland, Slovakia, and now also Romania.

ING calls itself a “Top Employer”. But for whom?

Didn’t the head of ING Belgium previously announce: “The period of cost-cutting is behind us, we are now focusing on growth” (* De Tijd: 9/12/2024).

This announcement on 16/10/2025 of a new Business Evolution was not presented in advance to the Works Council in Belgium and therefore violates CE regulations.

Moreover, the terms of a social support plan are currently unknown, as the current CBA expires at the end of 2025 and there is no clarity on support measures for those affected.

This has sown even more uncertainty and stress in the affected teams. We also wonder whether a new phase has begun in the phasing out of CLTs here in Belgium?

ACLVB/CGSLB, together with the other unions, has already addressed management on this issue. We are asking for more clarity, particularly regarding the social plan around the phasing out of these two CLTs.

Next week, CGSLB will also raise the question at the European Works Council about the group’s future vision for CLTs in Belgium in relation to the HUBS.

Wage norm 0% for 2025–2026

The wage norm for 2025 and 2026 has been set at 0%. This means: no room for general wage increases beyond indexation or salary scales.

What remains possible?

Indexations and scale-based increases
Individual wage increases within the average wage cost
Increase of meal vouchers from 2026 (up to max. €10)
Bonuses such as CBA 90 bonus and profit-sharing bonus

Source: Royal Decree of 12 September 2025 implementing Article 7, §1, of the Law of 26 July 1996 on the promotion of employment and the preventive safeguarding of competitiveness, p. 72541

Mass demonstration against social dismantling

On October 14, 140,000 people gathered in Brussels for a national demonstration organized by CGSLB, ABVV and ACV. We protested against the social dismantling by the Arizona government.

Our demands:

Preservation of automatic wage indexation

Fair pensions

No relaxation of night work rules or expansion of flexi-jobs

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The impressive turnout shows that we are strong together. New actions will follow in November, during the November Appeal, including a national strike day on 26/11.

News from the EU: Wage Transparency Directive

By June 2026, Belgium must transpose the European directive on wage transparency. This directive requires employers to make wage data more transparent and to address inequalities. Trade unions will play a key role in monitoring data and defending workers’ rights.

Negotiations are currently underway. Social partners have played and will continue to play an important role at all levels of social dialogue in implementing the directive.