Intermittent worker(s) in the entertainment industry

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For intermittent workers in the entertainment industry who find it difficult to generate sufficient income on a regular basis to meet their basic needs, the State has put in place a system of social measures, which, under certain conditions, can help to overcome more difficult periods and - most importantly - allows the artist or the technician to remain in artistic creation.

Intermittent workers in the entertainment industry are people who work intermittently for performing arts companies, i.e. a person who has periods of employment which alternate with periods of inactivity insofar as he/she works for performing arts companies, whose productions are time-limited by their very nature (theatre, film, etc.). To deal with this particular situation of alternating periods of employment and inactivity, the government has implemented a system of social welfare benefits, known as "benefits for out-of-work intermittent workers in the entertainment industry", that intermittent workers in the entertainment industry are entitled to, provided they satisfy certain conditions.

The amended law of 19 December 2014

  • on the social measures for the benefit of self-employed professional artists and intermittent workers in the entertainment industry
  • to promote artistic creation

makes some adaptations to the amended law of 30 July 1999, the main features of which are as follows:

  • by virtue of the community principle of equal treatment between European citizens, the residence condition is replaced by the obligation of registration to the Luxembourg social security system for at least 6 months prior to the request and involvement in the Luxembourg artistic and cultural scene.
  • according to the principle of equal treatment, artists and intermittent workers
    • are now subject to the same membership requirements;
    • are subject to income tax;
    • are entitled to financial aid linked to the monthly social minimum wage for skilled workers;
    • must prove that their artistic activity has generated an income amounting to at least four times the monthly social minimum wage for unskilled workers during the year preceding their request.
  • the period of activity is suspended during sick leave of more than one month, maternity leave or parental leave.