ABSTRACT
In 1987 Luxembourg pension legislation covering blue- and white-collar wage-salaried and self-employed workers was unified in a General Pension Scheme. Only civil servants and employees assimilated to civil servants belong to other pension schemes. Initially the government proposed to introduce a two-level disability pension system with a general disability pension benefit and a professional disability pension benefit reduced to 50% of the general disability benefit. The implementation of the reform on occupational disability and professional reintegration started only in October 2002, so that it is far too early to make an evaluation of its success or failure. Nevertheless from the description of the redeployment procedure it seems obvious that it is an ambitious reform, which depends on the active collaboration of the concerned workers, the employers and various administrations. Internal redeployment of a worker is compulsory for companies with more than 25 workers which have not yet fulfilled the legal measures concerning the employment of disabled persons.
