Labour law returns to the Chamber through the whole 2023–2028 legislature, from the labour chapter of the coalition agreement in November 2023 to the enlarged questions on artificial intelligence and platform work in February 2026. The sittings below cover working time and Sunday work, the exclusive right of the trade unions to negotiate collective agreements, the quality of work, and the state of the social dialogue between government, unions and employers. The quotes are taken verbatim from the Compte rendu officiel of each sitting.
\nOn 7 May 2024, during the interpellation on the Quality of Work Index, Marc Spautz called for more collective agreements covering more workers.
\n\n\nEch mengen, dass et dofir och wichteg ass, dass mer et fäerdegbréngen, dass méi Kollektivverträg hei am Land gemaach ginn, dass et och muss d’Méiglechkeet sinn, wéi d’EU-Direktiv dat virgesäit, dass méi Leit ënnert d’Ofsécherung vun de Kollektivverträg falen.
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I think it is therefore also important that we manage to have more collective agreements made in this country, and that it must be possible, as the EU directive provides, for more people to fall under the protection of collective agreements.
\nSitting of 7 May 2024, Marc Spautz, CSV
\nOn 21 January 2025, in the debate on the motion on the role of the trade unions in collective bargaining, Stéphanie Weydert stated her party supports the exclusive right of trade unions to negotiate collective agreements.
\n\n\nD’CSV steet zum Exklusivrecht vun de Gewerkschaften, fir Kollektivverträg ze verhandelen, an dat hu mer méi wéi eng Kéier bekräftegt.
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The CSV stands by the exclusive right of the trade unions to negotiate collective agreements, and we have confirmed that more than once.
\nSitting of 21 January 2025, Stéphanie Weydert, CSV
\nOn 7 May 2024, during the interpellation on the Quality of Work Index, Corinne Cahen defined what she means by flexibility of working time.
\n\n\nAn dat ass dat, wat mir ënner Flexibilitéit verstinn: d’Demande vum Salarié, fir kënne säi Liewen ze organiséieren.
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And that is what we understand by flexibility: the request of the employee, to be able to organise his life.
\nSitting of 7 May 2024, Corinne Cahen, DP
\nOn 18 December 2025, in the second reading of the bill on eight hours of Sunday work in retail, Corinne Cahen stated that her party will vote for the bill as the government proposes it.
\n\n\nMee mir als DP sinn der Meenung, dass mer elo mussen zu Pëtte kommen. Dofir wëlle mer dëst Gesetz, wéi d’Regierung et proposéiert, stëmmen.
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But we as the DP take the view that we now have to get on with it. That is why we want to vote for this law as the government proposes it.
\nSitting of 18 December 2025, Corinne Cahen, DP
\nOn 7 May 2024, opening his interpellation on the Quality of Work Index, Georges Engel stated his own view of the place of work in life.
\n\n\nDir Dammen an Dir Hären, mir ass et wichteg, datt d’Leit schaffe gi fir ze liewen an net liewe fir ze schaffen.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it is important to me that people go to work in order to live and do not live in order to work.
\nSitting of 7 May 2024, Georges Engel, LSAP
\nOn 14 May 2025, on the second day of the debate on the state of the nation, Taina Bofferding accused the government of deliberately weakening the social dialogue.
\n\n\nGanz am Contraire, d’Regierung huet de Sozialdialog geziilt – geziilt! – geschwächt, anstatt d’Aarbechtswelt aktiv ze gestalten.
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Quite the contrary, the government has deliberately, deliberately, weakened the social dialogue instead of actively shaping the world of work.
\nSitting of 14 May 2025, Taina Bofferding, LSAP
\nOn 21 November 2024, in the debate on the motion tying eight hours of Sunday work in retail to a collective agreement, Jeff Engelen objected that small firms cannot regulate the extra hours by collective agreement.
\n\n\nEch hunn awer dozou, wéi d’Motioun hei geschriwwen ass, e bësse Bedenke respektiv wëll ech dorop opmierksam maachen, datt dat vu véier op aacht Stonnen, wat misst iwwer e Kollektivvertrag gereegelt ginn, a ville Betriber, speziell deene méi klengen, jo guer net méiglech ass.
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I have some doubts about the motion as written, or rather I want to point out that going from four to eight hours, which would have to be settled by a collective agreement, is simply not possible in many firms, especially the smaller ones.
\nSitting of 21 November 2024, Jeff Engelen, ADR
\nOn 22 October 2024, presenting her motion on the role of the trade unions in collective bargaining, Djuna Bernard stated that collective agreement policy is made with the unions.
\n\n\nFir eis ass et evident: D’Kollektivvertragspolitick gëtt mat de Gewerkschafte gemaach an d’Roll vun de Gewerkschaften dierf op kee Fall ageschränkt ginn.
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For us it is obvious: collective agreement policy is made with the unions, and the role of the unions must on no account be restricted.
\nSitting of 22 October 2024, Djuna Bernard, déi gréng
\nOn 11 February 2026, in her enlarged question on the automation risks of artificial intelligence, Djuna Bernard cited a Statec figure on workers exposed to artificial intelligence.
\n\n\nEng rezent Etüd vum Statec, publizéiert an der aktueller Note de conjoncture, weist, dass méi wéi néng vun zéng Beschäftegten zu Lëtzebuerg potenziell vum Asaz vun der Kënschtlecher Intelligenz betraff sinn.
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A recent Statec study, published in the current Note de conjoncture, shows that more than nine out of ten employees in Luxembourg are potentially affected by the use of artificial intelligence.
\nSitting of 11 February 2026, Djuna Bernard, déi gréng
\nOn 23 November 2023, in the debate on the labour chapter of the coalition agreement, Sven Clement warned that the announced employment cheque could push workers into precarity.
\n\n\nMir Piraten schwätzen eis kloer géint sougenannten Null-Stonne-Kontrakter aus, mee esou Chèques d’emploi kéinten och derfir suergen, datt d’Leit an d’Prekaritéit rutschen, well se laut Accord nëmmen an deene Stonnen, wou se geschafft hunn, och sozial verséchert sinn.
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We Pirates come out clearly against so-called zero-hour contracts, but such employment cheques could also mean that people slide into precarity, because according to the agreement they are only covered by social insurance for the hours they have worked.
\nSitting of 23 November 2023, Sven Clement, Piraten
\nOn 18 December 2025, in the second reading of the bill on eight hours of Sunday work in retail, Sven Clement stated figures from the committee report on the reach of the 30-employee threshold.
\n\n\nA wéi de Rapport selwer seet, deckt dëse Schwellewäert vun 30 zwar 90 % vun den Entreprisen of, awer just 35 % vun de Salariéen.
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And as the report itself says, this threshold of 30 covers 90% of the companies, but only 35% of the employees.
\nSitting of 18 December 2025, Sven Clement, Piraten
\nOn 21 November 2024, in the debate on the motion tying eight hours of Sunday work in retail to a collective agreement, Marc Baum defined social dialogue in his own terms.
\n\n\nDe Sozialdialog ass näischt aneres wéi eng gemäässegt, eng ziviliséiert Form vu Klassekampf.
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Social dialogue is nothing other than a moderated, civilised form of class struggle.
\nSitting of 21 November 2024, Marc Baum, déi Lénk
\nOn 10 July 2025, in the debate on the government declaration about the meeting with the social partners, Marc Baum argued the country is in a crisis caused by the government questioning the social model.
\n\n\nMir sinn an enger Kris, well dee Sozialmodell, dee Lëtzebuerg iwwer Joerzéngten ausgemaach huet, vun dëser Regierung a Fro gestallt ginn ass an deene leschten 20 Méint!
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We are in a crisis, because the social model that has defined Luxembourg for decades has been called into question by this government over the last 20 months!
\nSitting of 10 July 2025, Marc Baum, déi Lénk
\nOn 22 October 2024, during the question-time exchange on the role of the trade unions in collective bargaining, the Minister of Labour denied that he ever said the unions would lose their monopoly in collective bargaining.
\n\n\nAn de leschten zwou Wochen hunn ech op de verschiddene mediale Plattformen an op diversen anere Plaze meng Positioun geäussert an ënnerstrach, dass ech ni gesot hunn, datt d’Gewerkschaften hire Monopol an dësem Kontext géingen ewechgeholl kréien.
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Over the past two weeks I have set out my position on various media platforms and in other places, and stressed that I never said the unions would have their monopoly taken away in this context.
\nSitting of 22 October 2024, Georges Mischo, Ministre du Travail
\nOn 10 July 2025, in his government declaration on the meeting with the social partners, the Prime Minister announced that the government will not bring a bill amending collective-agreement law.
\n\n\nAn duerfir huet d’Regierung eesäiteg annoncéiert, datt se, fir dee Sozialdialog iwwerhaapt ze erméiglechen, der Meenung ass, datt et kee Sënn géif maachen, e Gesetzesprojet an dës Chamber anzebréngen, deen d’Kollektivvertragswiese géif ofänneren.
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And that is why the government announced unilaterally that, in order to make the social dialogue possible at all, it takes the view that it would make no sense to bring a bill into this Chamber that would amend the collective-agreement system.
\nSitting of 10 July 2025, Luc Frieden, Premier ministre
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