Can an employee still benefit from the CSE if he no longer works in the company?

Verified 31 March 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

The social and cultural activities are intended priority employees (even when their employment contract is suspended), their families and trainees.

The ESC: titleContent determine by written, depending in particular on its budget, beneficiaries social and cultural activities.

Thus, former employees of the company may also benefit from these social and cultural activities if the ESC: titleContent decided it.

These social and cultural activities include, but are not limited to, the following services and benefits:

  • Social welfare and self-help institutions (e.g. pension institutions)
  • Improvement of well-being conditions at work and in the daily life of the employee (canteens, housing, family gardens for example)
  • Activities relating to the use of leisure and sporting activities
  • Professional or educational institutions (libraries, general education courses, for example)
  • Social services responsible for:
    • Ensure the employee's well-being, facilitate his adaptation to work and collaborate with the company's occupational health service
    • Coordinate and promote the social achievements decided by the EESC and the employer
  • Occupational health service established in the company.

Warning  

The ESC may adjust benefits according to certain criteria such as, for example, the income of employees or the age of children.

However, no seniority requirement cannot be foreseen by the EESC to benefit from these social and cultural activities.

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