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05/07/24
05/07/24
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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23/02/24
23/02/24
Legal interest rate for 2024

The legal interest rate for 2024 increases to 5.75%.

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01/12/23
01/12/23
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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Each day we publish several articles written by legal and tax specialists from law firms, notaries offices, the legal departments from payroll agencies and tax consultants.

It is the perfect way for lawyers at the Bar, in-house counsel, barristers, solicitors, notaries, bailiffs, paralegals and any other legal professional with an interest in Belgian and European law to keep informed of new legislative initiatives, case law, legal doctrine and all other legal developments on the Belgian legal scene!

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11/11/22
Labor and Employment Laws on Work-Life Balance and Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions in Force as …

By laws of October 7, 2022 Belgium finally transposed the European directive on transparent and predictable working conditions (Directive (EU) 2019/11…

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10/11/22
The Labour Deal is published in the Belgian State Gazette

You can, once again, find below our checklist of the obligations and possibilities for employers based on the Labour Deal Act, together with an indica…

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09/11/22
Update arbeidsreglement en template arbeidsovereenkomst vereist

Als gevolg van recente wetgeving, zoals de Wet transparante en voorspelbare arbeidsvoorwaarden, de Arbeidsdeal en het in het parlement aangenomen wets…

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08/11/22
National strike in Belgium: a Q&A

On 9 November 2022, employees of several companies will go on strike. In other companies, employees will not be on strike, but even these companies wi…

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03/11/22
Omzetting van de wet betreffende transparante en voorspelbare arbeidsvoorwaarden

Op 31 oktober 2022 verscheen de wet “houdende gedeeltelijke omzetting van Richtlijn (EU) 2019/1152 van het Europees Parlement en de Raad van 20 juni 2…

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28/10/22
Werkweek van 4 dagen binnenkort mogelijk

De publicatie in het Belgisch Staatsblad van die wet die de uitvoering is van de “arbeidsdeal”, wordt binnenkort verwacht. Door de nieuwe wet wordt o.…

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25/10/22
Sociale verkiezingen 2024: tijd om een strategie uit te stippelen

De volgende sociale verkiezingen worden in principe georganiseerd in 2024. Ook al lijkt dat nog veraf, toch raden wij aan om vandaag al na te denken o…

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21/10/22
Alternating weekly working regime

Amongst the various measures provided by the so-called Labour Deal to improve employees’ work-life balance, is the alternating weekly working regime. …

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20/10/22
Transparent and predictable working conditions (part 2): be sure to inform your employees

This second blog focuses on the principle of transparency towards employees and, more specifically, on the employers’ obligation to inform their emplo…

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18/10/22
Transparent and predictable working conditions: the ‘must know’ points for employers

An EU Directive was published in 2019 that obliges the Member States to guarantee, on the one hand, an improvement in employment conditions by enforci…

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18/10/22
Company rule banning religious symbols is not direct discrimination

On 13 October 2022 the Court of Justice considered whether an internal company rule banning the display of religious, philosophical and spiritual symb…

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12/10/22
Nieuw recht op flexibele arbeidsregeling voor werknemers met zorgtaken

Le 27 septembre 2022, le Conseil national du travail a approuvé la convention collective n°162 instituant un droit à demander une formule souple de tr…

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11/10/22
Labour Deal offers new dismissal rules in Belgium

New dismissal provisions are introduced in order to establish a more 'activating' dismissal law, aimed at supporting the employee after dismissal to n…

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11/10/22
Re-integration track 2.0: key changes at a glance

You will probably have already heard about the new 're-integration track 2.0' for sick employees that entered into force on 1 October 2022 and that al…

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07/10/22
Vragen staat vrij: meer zekerheid en voorspelbaarheid, of omgekeerd, meer flexibiliteit

Op 1 oktober 2022 zijn de in de Nationale Arbeidsraad gesloten CAO’s nr. 161 en nr. 162 in werking getreden. Die twee cao’s verlenen aan de werknemer …

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04/10/22
Reintegration of sick employees 2.0

A Royal Decree of 11 September 2022 reforms the rules on reintegration of sick employees. The new provisions have entered into force on 1 October 2022…

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03/10/22
New developments around long-term incapacity for work

On 1 October 2022, new rules on the reintegration process for incapacitated workers came into force. This is a first step towards reforming the policy…

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30/09/22
Arbeidsdeal omgezet in wetgeving: to do’s voor hr

Gisteren, op 29 september 2022 werd het wetsontwerp houdende diverse arbeidsverhoudingen goedgekeurd door de Kamer.

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26/09/22
Nieuwe regels re-integratietraject 2.0

Op 20 september 2022 werd het KB inzake het zogenaamde “re-integratietraject 2.0” gepubliceerd in het Belgisch Staatsblad. De meeste regels treden in …

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23/09/22
Wijziging aangekondigd i.v.m. einde arbeidsovereenkomst bij medische overmacht

Vorige week werd in de Kamer het wetsontwerp houdende diverse bepalingen betreffende arbeidsongeschiktheid ingediend. Dat wetsontwerp bevat 3 arbeidsr…

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