, the prime minister (CSV), announced the appointment of the current director of the employers federation UEL, , as director of Luxembourg Inland Revenue (ACD), to replace Pascale Toussing. Olinger has spent six years with the UEL and will leave his current post on 30 April 2024.

Frieden made the announcement at a press conference following a cabinet meeting at the Château de Senningen on Wednesday 21 February 2024. The PM also confirmed the appointment of as Luxembourg’s permanent representative to Coreper, a key EU decision-making body. That appointment that has set off a game of musical chairs within Luxembourg diplomacy. The current holder of the post, Sylvie Lucas, has been appointed ambassador to Berlin, as the current ambassador is retiring in September. has been appointed ambassador to Rome.

After being appointed secretary general and then director and chair of the executive committee at UEL--and the corporate responsibility body INDR--at the beginning of 2018, succeeding Jean-Jacques Rommes and Nicolas Henckes, Olinger continued the transformation of these two organisations in close consultation with the members, a press release from the UEL stated. The press release noted that he has also represented the UEL on the Economic and Social Council, as well as on the boards of directors of the National Health Fund (CNS), the main public pension system Fonds de compensation and the cooperative insurer Mutualité des employeurs, of which he is chairman. On the employers’ side, he coordinated preparations for the national tripartite meetings from 2020 to 2023.

“The collaboration with Jean-Paul has been excellent and marked by collegiality. On behalf of the boards of directors, we would like to thank him warmly for having modernised the UEL and the INDR together with his teams over the past six years, a mission entrusted to him by our predecessor Michel Wurth,” stated , chair of the UEL, and , chair of the INDR.

Olinger will be replaced as head of the UEL in the coming weeks, the federation stated.

, who joined the INDR as deputy director last October, will take leadership of the CSR certification body.

Originally published in French by and translated for Delano