En Belgique, il est entre-temps légalement possible d'imposer un Covid Safe ticket comme condition d'entrée ou de participation. A Bruxelles, il est obligatoire à partir d'aujourd'hui, 15 octobre 2021 (et actuellement jusqu'au 14 janvier 2022, sous réserve de prolongation)
When posting employees to Belgium, foreign employers as well as Belgian host companies must be aware of the employee lending restrictions.
Décision récente de la Cour de cassation : plus de mise en balance des intérêts pour apprécier si une modification unilatérale d'un élément essentiel du contrat de travail est admissible.
When the vaccination campaign was launched in Belgium, it was intended, in a second phase, that this should also take place within companies.
The summer of 2021 has proved exceptional in that it produced a surfeit of employment-related measures. A Royal Decree of 30 July 2021 set the maximum margin for salary cost increases for the period 2021-2022 at 0.4%. Two weeks earlier, employer and employee representative organisations within the National Labour Council entered into no fewer than 10 collective bargaining agreements, covering such topics as temporary unemployment, unemployment with company benefits (so-called “bridging pension”) and supplementary pensions.
On 15 July 2021 the European Court of Justice ruled that employers may legally prohibit employees from wearing any visible signs of political, philosophical or religious beliefs at work if they can prove that they need to appear neutral in front of their clients or need to avoid social conflicts.
After 1.5 year of teleworking, the Belgian Coordination Committee (coordination body composed of Federal, regional and community ministers) decided to lift the recommendation to work from home as of 1 September 2021. As a result, many employees are now gradually returning to the office, often on a part-time basis.
Until recently, directors of regulated firms were permitted to serve as directors on a self-employed basis and, at the same time, to perform their operational functions as employees. Those days are now over. This change has involved a number of stages.
In this fifth and final episode of our Working from Home series, we will dive into the less explored topic of working time for teleworkers.
