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Jones Day’s Brussels Office strengthens its Labor & Employment Practice

The global law firm Jones Day announced that Sara Vanderstraeten has joined the Firm as of counsel in its Labor & Employment Practice. Ms. Vanderstraeten is based in Jones Day…

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Legal interest rate for 2024

The legal interest rate for 2024 increases to 5.75%.

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Malissa Begtas joins the Employment, Pensions & Mobility team at Taylor Wessing in Brussels…

Starting from 1 December 2023, counsel Malissa Begtas will be joining the Employment, Pensions & Mobility team of Taylor Xessing in Brussels. With over a decade of experience i…

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27/09/24
Posting workers to Belgium: keeping up with the latest devel…

This newsletter gives a short overview of the latest legal and administrati…

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26/08/24
Occupational pension plans – Increase in the AOP return guar…

It has been a long time coming, but last week the FSMA officially announced…

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Covid-19: the return of mandatory remote work

Now Belgium is in the midst of a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections, the Government has decided to take stricter measures, including the reintroductio…

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Belgium imposes tighter Covid measures (including an obligation to work from home again)

In the wave of sunny optimism following the roll-out of our vaccination programme this spring-summer, few people in Belgium had anticipated that the C…

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New Tax Regime For Foreign Executives

The Belgian Federal Government recently announced that the current tax regime for foreign executives is expected to be replaced by a new tax regime th…

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Telewerk opnieuw verplicht

Vanwege de verslechterde Covid-19-situatie, heef het Overlegcomité gisterenavond een aantal strengere regels aangekondigd. 

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JC no. 200 - draft sectoral agreement 2021-2022

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Fiscale en sociale vergroening van bedrijfswagens

Het wetsontwerp houdende fiscale en sociale vergroening van de mobiliteit werd op 10 november 2021 goedgekeurd in de Kamer. Dit wetsontwerp bevat een …

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Court of Cassation rules on remuneration of stand-by time

On 21 June 2021, the Court of Cassation ruled that stand-by time of (voluntary) firemen performed outside of the fire station must be considered as wo…

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Over het systeem van hoofdelijke aansprakelijkheid voor RSZ-schulden

Wie een beroep doet op een (onder)aannemer die sociale schulden heeft op het ogenblik van het afsluiten van de overeenkomst en deze inhoudings- en sto…

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Mobility budget: amendments in the context of a greener tax and social mobility

On 20 October 2021, the Finance Commission in Belgium approved a Bill on greener company cars.

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Een pauze met beschikbaarheidsdienst kan soms arbeidstijd zijn

In onze e-zine van 15 maart 2021 verduidelijkten we welke criteria relevant zijn om  te oordelen of wacht- of stand-by diensten thuis arbeidstijd…

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The responsibility contribution in the event of an employer's excessive use of economic unemployment

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Kan een werkgever zijn werknemers verplichten om een Covid Safe ticket te tonen?

In België is het ondertussen wettelijk mogelijk om een Covid Safe ticket te verplichten als toegangs- of deelnamevoorwaarde. In Brussel is dat vanaf v…

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Reconciling intra-group posting set-ups with the Belgian employee lending restrictions: a Brussels court decis…

When posting employees to Belgium, foreign employers as well as Belgian host companies must be aware of the employee lending restrictions. 

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Als ik nog geen vijf minuten tijd heb...

Is een rustpauze arbeidstijd? Natuurlijk niet, zullen de meesten als antwoord geven. Het juiste antwoord is (zoals zo vaak het geval is): het han…

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Unilateral modification of an essential element of the employment contract

Recent decision of the Supreme Court: no more balance of interests when assessing whether a unilateral modification of an essential element of the emp…

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Will employers in Flanders soon be able to organise Covid-19 vaccinations in the workplace?

When the vaccination campaign was launched in Belgium, it was intended, in a second phase, that this should also take place within companies.

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Coronapremie kan worden toegekend sinds 1 augustus 2021

Sinds 1 augustus 2021 kunnen ondernemingen waar tijdens de crisis goede resultaten zijn behaald, een coronapremie toekennen aan hun personeel vrij van…

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Wage increase margin 2021-2022 and pension harmonisation. Two summer measures that (almost) went unnoticed

The summer of 2021 has proved exceptional in that it produced a surfeit of employment-related measures. A Royal Decree of 30 July 2021 set the maximum…

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European Court of Justice takes position justifying prohibitions on showing visible signs

On 15 July 2021 the European Court of Justice ruled that employers may legally prohibit employees from wearing any visible signs of political, philoso…

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Back to (remote) work: new rules for Belgian employers as from September 2021

After 1.5 year of teleworking, the Belgian Coordination Committee (coordination body composed of Federal, regional and community ministers) decided to…

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