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Oprichting Littler Belgium: een nieuw hoofdstuk in arbeidsrecht

Op 1 mei 2025 werd Littler Belgium opgericht, een onafhankelijk Belgisch advocatenkantoor gespecialiseerd in arbeidsrecht en HR-gerelateerde juridische vraagstukken.

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Universités d'été : les inscriptions sont ouvertes

AVOCATS.BE vous donne rendez-vous les mardi 19 et mercredi 20 août 2025 au Château-ferme de Courrière pour deux journées de formation autour de thématiques actuelles, animées par d…

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Promotions at Clifford Chance Brussels

Clifford Chance announces the promotion of 31 partners to the global partnership, and four new Senior Counsel and forty new Counsel appointments across our European offices, 8 of w…

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29/09/25
Coalition Agreement: Royal Decree definitively abolishes SWT…

On September 15, 2025, the royal decree (RD) abolishing the regime of unemp…

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23/09/25
Budget Mobilité en Belgique - Nouveautés 2026

Le budget mobilité permet aux travailleurs qui disposent ou peuvent prétend…

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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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Kan een werkgever zijn werknemers verplichten om een Covid Safe ticket te tonen?

In België is het ondertussen wettelijk mogelijk om een Covid Safe ticket te verplichten als toegangs- of deelnamevoorwaarde. In Brussel is dat vanaf v…

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Reconciling intra-group posting set-ups with the Belgian employee lending restrictions: a Brussels court decis…

When posting employees to Belgium, foreign employers as well as Belgian host companies must be aware of the employee lending restrictions. 

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Als ik nog geen vijf minuten tijd heb...

Is een rustpauze arbeidstijd? Natuurlijk niet, zullen de meesten als antwoord geven. Het juiste antwoord is (zoals zo vaak het geval is): het han…

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Unilateral modification of an essential element of the employment contract

Recent decision of the Supreme Court: no more balance of interests when assessing whether a unilateral modification of an essential element of the emp…

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Will employers in Flanders soon be able to organise Covid-19 vaccinations in the workplace?

When the vaccination campaign was launched in Belgium, it was intended, in a second phase, that this should also take place within companies.

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Coronapremie kan worden toegekend sinds 1 augustus 2021

Sinds 1 augustus 2021 kunnen ondernemingen waar tijdens de crisis goede resultaten zijn behaald, een coronapremie toekennen aan hun personeel vrij van…

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Wage increase margin 2021-2022 and pension harmonisation. Two summer measures that (almost) went unnoticed

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…

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European Court of Justice takes position justifying prohibitions on showing visible signs

On 15 July 2021 the European Court of Justice ruled that employers may legally prohibit employees from wearing any visible signs of political, philoso…

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Back to (remote) work: new rules for Belgian employers as from September 2021

After 1.5 year of teleworking, the Belgian Coordination Committee (coordination body composed of Federal, regional and community ministers) decided to…

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Verschillende verlofstelsels aangepast afgelopen zomer

Tijdens de zomer werden verschillende verlofstelsels aangepast. 

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Directors of regulated firms can no longer be bound by an employment contract

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 ope…

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Returning to the workplace – Part 5: working time for teleworkers

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.

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Regering legt loonnorm voor 2021-2022 vast op 0,4%

Nadat de sociale partners zelf geen akkoord konden bereiken over de maximale marge van de loonkostenevolutie voor de jaren 2021-2022, heeft de regerin…

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The new "corona" premium for employees : an interesting social and tax incentive

On 1 August 2021, the 'corona premium' rules came into force in Belgium. This premium, paid in the form of consumption vouchers (either electronic or …

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Returning to the workplace – Part 4: Now you see me, now you don’t … Monitoring teleworkers’ productivity

The pandemic has given an enormous boost to working from home, in particular (to state the obvious) when it was mandatory. Where roles permitted it, e…

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Coronapremie is er!

Vandaag zijn in het Belgisch Staatsblad de regels rond de coronapremie verschenen. 

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Belgium extends and enhances paid bereavement leave

On 15 July 2021, Belgium published the law of 27 June 2021 "extending bereavement leave in the event of the death of a partner or child and introducin…

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New headscarf ruling from the European Court of Justice

On 15 July 2021, the European Court of Justice ruled in two German cases that a neutral dress code in the workplace does not constitute either direct …

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Returning to the workplace – Part 3: Off to town for a home office? (Belgium)

I will start this third part of our Working from Home series with a confession: I worked the first couple of weeks of lockdown from a small table drag…

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EU Court of Justice says headscarf ban is not discriminatory

Following the STIB judgement of 3 May 2021 by the Labour Court of Brussels, ordering the STIB to end its policy of neutrality due to discrimination on…

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