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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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In het arrest van 7 juli 2011 heeft het Grondwettelijk Hof geoordeeld dat de verschillen in behandeling tussen arbeiders en bedienden wat betreft de c…
In its advice statement of June 5 2013, the Privacy Commission shed light on the practice of employers listening in to employees' sales calls with a v…
The Limosa obligation concerns the obligation for a seconded self-employed person or a seconded employee (not tied to an employer established in Belgi…
Through a transitional measure for 2013, employers can choose to bear the cost of the new employee social security contribution on bonuses. This will …
Article 1184 of the Belgian Civil Code stipulates that a judge, at the request of one of the parties to a contract, may declare termination of the con…
Many companies allow staff to work from home for one or more days per week. Most of these workers operate from home using a computer, phone and/or oth…
Foreign companies often are puzzled about the language to use when drafting an employment contract for an employee either sent (seconded) from …
The Flemish decree on the use of languages requires that, once an employer's place of business is located in Flanders, the language used in relations …
The Public Enterprises Market Activities Act (Wet Markt en Overheid, "PEMAA") is in force from 1 July 2012. The purpose of this act is to counter unfa…
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De loonnorm is een percentage dat de maximale loonkostontwikkeling over een periode van twee jaar uitdrukt, bepaald in functie van de loonkosto…
The wage norm is a percentage that expresses the maximum wage cost change over a period of two years, based on the wage cost change in Germany,…
La norme salariale est un pourcentage qui exprime l'augmentation maximale du coût salarial sur une période de deux ans, déterminée en fonction …
Het Koninklijk Besluit van 28 april 2013 dat de loonnorm vastlegt op 0% voor de jaren 2013 en 2014 werd gisteren gepubliceerd in het Belgisch S…
A new royal decree providing for a salary freeze in 2013 and 2014 was published today in the Belgian State Gazette.[1]
As discussed in our Newsflash of 12 September 2012, the Flemish Community’s Decree of 19 July 1973 on the use of languages in labour relations (“the L…
Les obligations relatives à l'emploi des langues dans les relations de travail, en particulier pour la rédaction des contrats de travail, sont souvent…
In a detailed and well-reasoned judgment of 19 March 2013, the Brussels Labour Court of Appeal ruled that the termination of an employment contract on…
To tackle the "false self-employed" phenomenon, which damages both the workers and the social security system, the legislator adopted Title XIII of th…
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