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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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28/03/13
Use of E-mail on Work Floor

The Brussels Labour Court of Appeals gave judgment on 7 February 2013 on the privacy of e-mails in the professional inbox of an employee (the “Judgmen…

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24/03/13
Tougher position towards the employment of employees who illegally stay in Belgium (part II)

The Act providing for sanctions and measures against employers of illegally staying third-country nationals has been published in the Belgian State Ga…

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21/03/13
Post-Term Non-Competition Clauses: Avoid Expensive Mistakes

An employment agreement frequently includes a standard non-competition clause, even though its validity or relevance to the specific case has not been…

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08/03/13
Increasing the employment rate of older workers: myth or reality?

Collective Bargaining Agreement no. 104 concerning the implementation of a plan for the employment of older workers in companies, which entered into f…

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05/03/13
De sociale ruling wordt eindelijk realiteit!

Een arbeidsrelatie kan worden aangegaan door een werknemer of door een zelfstandige. Het fundamenteel verschil is het al dan niet bestaan van een geza…

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25/02/13
PROGRAMME ACT REINFORCES THE FIGHT AGAINST SOCIAL SECURITY FRAUD IN THE FRAME OF INTRA -COMMUNITY MOBILITY

 As announced in our first Headlines of 2013, the Programme Act of 27 December 2012 contains new provisions aiming at the reinforcement of t…

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20/02/13
Working with would-be independent workers?

Cooperating with a would-be independent worker may turn out to be an expensive exercise for the disguised employer in case of a requalification (possi…

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18/02/13
The eHealth-platform - technological innovation at the heart of our social security and public health policy

The eHealth-platform wants to promote the possibility for each stakeholders in the healthsector to benefit from the advantages of electronical securis…

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08/02/13
The fight against social fraud

Secretary of State Crombez introduced some time ago a package of measures in order to fight social fraud more efficiently. Along the same lines, Title…

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01/02/13
The eHealth platform - technological innovation at the heart of our social security and public health policy

The eHealth platform wants to promote for stakeholders in the health sector the potential benefits of electronically securized information exchange. A…

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21/01/13
To Limosa or not to Limosa?

The European Court of Justice ruled on 19 December 2012 that the obligation on self-employed service providers not established in Belgium to submit a …

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18/01/13
New salary ceilings as from 1 January 2013

The law of 3 July 1978 relating to the employment contracts

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17/01/13
The employment plan for elder workers

The employers, who employ on 1 January 2013 more than 20 workers (fulltime equivalents, calculated on the basis of the DIMONA-statement, including per…

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16/01/13
Di Rupo's General Policy Statement read with "social law" glasses

On 21 November 2012 Prime Minister Di Rupo presented the General Policy Statement of the federal government to the federal parliament.

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16/01/13
Les fonds détournés par une employée ne constituent pas une rémunération imposable

Cass. 23.11.2012 : « La notion ‘rémunération’ au sens de l’art. 31 CIR92 ne comprend pas les fonds qu’un travailleur s’est indûment octroyés au détrim…

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15/01/13
Limosa for self-employed workers incompatible with EU law

The Program Law of 27 December 2006 obliges posted self-employed workers to give prior notification regarding their partial or temporary activity in B…

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15/01/13
Do not forget to pay the Wyninckx contribution for 2012

The Program Law of 22 June 2012 (I) introduced a new social security contribution of 1.5% on high pension premiums (see Laga Newsflash of July 2012), …

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15/01/13
The new Programme Act

The new Programme Act has been published in the Belgian State Gazette of 31 December 2012. This new Act contains a number of labour and social securit…

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09/01/13
New measures against secondment fraud

Within the Budget 2013 framework, the Di Rupo I government has adopted a new string of measures against fraud. These measures are included in the Prog…

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09/01/13
Social anti-abuse measure

The Program Act of 27 December 2012 – published in the Belgian State Journal on 31 December 2012 – provides for a new anti-abuse measure related to so…

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