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By 16 December 2026, employers wishing to conduct private investigations involving their employees must have an appropriate internal framework in place under the Private Investigat…
As of 1 October 2026, the Walloon Region applies an updated list of bottleneck professions for the employment of third-country nationals, cut from 56 to 31 professions. Altius expl…
For internationally mobile employees, the tax allocation under double tax treaties and the social security allocation under EU coordination rules and bilateral treaties follow diff…
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The Belgian federal government has announced a considerable decrease in the social security contributions of employers in the context of the so-called…
With its recently published ruling of 13 February 2015, the Brussels Labour Court of Appeal seems to reverse its previous case law by ruling that an e…
In its recent Arrest of September 17, the Court declared void two provisions of the 26 December 2013 Act on the uniform status which entered into…
Companies that usually have, on average, more than 50 or 100 employees, must organize social elections to install respectively a Health and Safety Com…
Een werkgever die een beschermde werknemer wenst te ontslaan moet hiervan de nationale, representatieve werknemersorganisatie op de hoogte brengen, zo…
The Belgian tax authorities have recently introduced some changes to the so-called “technical note” detailing the calculation of the recurring tax-fre…
De nieuwe regeling inzake de hoofdelijke aansprakelijkheid voor sociale en fiscale schulden bij werken in onroerende staat werd uitgebreid naar d…
With its 17 September 2015 ruling, the Constitutional Court added a new chapter to the ongoing discussion around the discrimination between blue- and …
On 21 August 2015 the Act of 10 August 2015 pertaining to the increase of the legal retirement pension age, the conditions for early retirement and th…
Het Grondwettelijk Hof velde op 17 september 2015 het langverwachte arrest inzake de afwijkende, verkorte opzeggingstermijnen voor de bouwvakkers in d…
Vanaf 1 augustus 2015 genieten de laagste lonen via een versterking van de sociale werkbonus een bijkomende lastenverlaging. De werkbonus is de verm…
Wereldschokkend is het arrest van het Hof van Cassatie van 15 juni 2015 (S.13.0095.N) niet, want het bevestigt wat het Hof in andere arresten al …
The law adapting the legislation on social elections was published on 22nd June 2015 in view of next year’s social elections. This new legal framework…
La Cour du travail de Liège (division Namur) a récemment décidé, en matière de licenciement pour motif grave, que c’est le conseil d’administrati…
Illegally putting workers at the disposal of a third-party user remains a hot item in Belgium. A rather unknown solution to enable comp…
On 27 June 2014, the National Confederation of Executives (Nationale Confederatie van het Kaderpersoneel/Confédération Nationale des Cadres) and a num…
Na talrijke analyses door een commissie van deskundigen en herhaaldelijke discussies tussen de sociale partners, werd de wetgeving die als doel heeft …
Il n’est pas rare, surtout en ces périodes d’intenses activités syndicales précédant la procédure des élections sociales de constater des débordements…
Le recours à un travailleur indépendant (nouvel engagement ou modification de la nature de relation de travail salarié vers indépendant) est souvent s…
An employer suspects one of its employees to perform unfair competition during the exercise of its own duties.
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