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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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18/11/24
Can employees who have not yet started their outplacement ta…

An employee who is dismissed with a notice period or who performs a notice …

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06/11/24
Het Sociaal Strafwetboek hervormd: wat zijn de belangrijkste…

Het Sociaal Strafwetboek onderging een belangrijke hervorming, en dit kan b…

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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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30/10/13
Innovation Premium

The modernisation act (1) extends the possibility to grant an innovation premium until 1 January 2015.

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25/10/13
The Di Rupo government looking for more social security contributions

The Di Rupo government is looking for more social security contributions in the case of termination of an employment contract.

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18/10/13
More Flexibility in Working Time

New, more flexible measures governing working time entered into force. These are the Law of 17 August 2013 regarding the modernisation of the labour l…

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18/10/13
Temporary work: what's new?

Initially, temporary work was instituted in the law as a means to cope with exceptional working situations. An employer was only allowed to make use o…

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17/10/13
Council of Ministers approves draft bill on unified employment status

On September 27 2013 the Council of Ministers approved a draft bill introducing a unified status for blue-collar and white-collar workers. Although th…

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16/10/13
The unified status blue-collar workers - white-collar workers

In its decision of 7 July 2011, the Constitutional Court allowed two years time to the legislator to undo the differences in the status of blue-collar…

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11/10/13
Certain termination indemnities subject to Belgian social security contributions

A new royal decree was published today in the Belgian State Gazette [1], providing that several termination indemnities will be subject to social secu…

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03/10/13
Social security contributions charged

Prior to 1 October 2013, compensation that was due by the employer to the employee by reason of the employer's failure to comply with legal, contractu…

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03/10/13
RSZ-bijdragen op bepaalde vergoedingen

Vóór 1 oktober 2013 werden schadevergoedingen die verschuldigd waren door de werkgever aan de werknemer wegens het niet-naleven van wettelijke, contra…

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03/10/13
Cotisations de sécurité sociale dues

Avant le 1er octobre 2013, les indemnités qui étaient dues par l'employeur au travailleur en raison du non-respect d'obligations légales, contractuell…

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01/10/13
Defence rights during dawn raids: the General Court attempts to put principles into practice

Competition authorities have broad powers of investigation during unannounced inspections of companies’ premises ("dawn raids"). In its judgment in De…

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23/09/13
The mechanism regarding the withholding obligation and the guarantee in respect of social security and the tax…

The social security and tax authorities recourse regarding the withholding obligation and guarantee during a judicial reorganization has been confirme…

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20/09/13
Agreement regarding Harmonisation of Blue Collar and White Collar Employee Regimes

Already in a 1993 judgment, the Constitutional Court (Grondwettelijk Hof / Cour Constitutionnelle) had considered the specific differences between whi…

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13/09/13
The success of the law on the continuity of undertakings leads to a reform

A bill modifying various legislation regarding the continuity of undertakings was adopted by the House of Representatives on 2 May 2013. The main modi…

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10/09/13
Modernising employment law

The modernisation of employment law Act was recently published in the Belgian Official Journal (B.S./M.B. 17 August 2013). The Modernisation Act aims …

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06/09/13
Eenmaking statuut arbeiders-bedienden: afschaffing carensdag

Zoals aangekondigd in onze vorige nieuwsbrief van 12 juli 2013, vervolgen we in deze editie de bespreking van het compromisvoorstel dat op 5 juli 2013…

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30/08/13
Termination indemnities no longer exempt from social security contributions

Within the framework of the combat against social fraud, the council of ministers recently approved a royal decree subjecting indemnities paid at empl…

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30/08/13
Meeting the requirements for claiming unemployment benefits with employer’s contribution (previously “early re…

The gradual tightening of the conditions for claiming unemployment benefits with employer’s contribution implies that some employees will fulfil these…

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29/08/13
New step in pension reform: harmonisation of pension bonus

Given the ageing population, the government has undertaken to reform the pension system. On 1 March, it was decided to harmonise the pension bonus sys…

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28/08/13
Obligation to hire interns for employers in the private sector

As of 1 January 2013, all private sector employers, regardless of the number of workers they employ, have to hire a minimum number of interns on a yea…

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