Request your SINE employer certificate to benefit from SINE advantages when hiring

• The approved social economy initiatives
• The approved insertion companies
• The approved sheltered workshop (ETA) or social workshop structures
• Social housing agencies
• Public service housing companies
• The approved Local Employment Agency (ALE) structures
• The approved employment development initiatives in the informal care for social purposes sector (IDESS)
• The approved socio-professional integration centres (CISP) (only for the EFT (work-based training business) pathway, not for the DEFI (developing employment through inclusive training) pathways)
• Cooperative enterprises recognised as social enterprises (ES). Recognition as an ES is managed by the Federal Public Service Economy (online form). Please note that you can apply for both Cooperative Enterprise and ES recognition at the same time (more information).

To obtain your "social economy" employer certificate, you must have one of the accreditations or recognitions listed under "Public cible".

Certificate validity

The date of validity of the certificate always corresponds to the dates of the accreditation:

• Sheltered workshop (ETA): Indefinite duration (inspection every six months)
• Social housing agency (AIS): 10 years
• Public service housing company (SLP): Indefinite duration
• Local Employment Agency (ALE): 6 years
• Socio-professional integration centres (CISP): 6 years

The SINE certificate offers recognised employers two main benefits:

• a reduction in National Office for Social Security (NOSS) employers' contributions
• financial aid from the National Employment Office (NEO) for payment of net salary (reintegration allowance).

These advantages apply when hiring unemployed individuals experiencing particular difficulties in finding a job.

Find out more

The application for a SINE certificate is made by email.

Send your application to economie.sociale@spw.wallonie.be:

• In the email subject, state: "SINE certificate" + the name of the applicant. 
• Please attach all supporting documents to your email, proving that your structure is fully recognised in one of the categories listed under "Public cible" (accreditation, recognition, status, etc.). 

All supporting documents proving that your structure is fully recognised in one of the categories listed under "Public cible" (accreditation, recognition, status, etc.).

• Royal Decree of 2 June 1999 concerning the execution of Article 7, Section 1, Paragraph 3 m of the Decree of 28 December 1944 concerning social security for employees as it relates to the reintegration of unemployed individuals who are very difficult to place

Any natural or legal person who considers that an administrative body based in Wallonia or the Wallonia-Brussels Federation failed to act, in a matter concerning that person, in a manner consistent with its public service mission, may refer the matter, in writing or in person, to the Ombudsman of Wallonia and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. 

This complaint can be made in writing to the following address: 

The Ombudsman of Wallonia and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation
Rue Lucien Namèche, 54 
B-5000 Namur