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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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Budget Mobilité en Belgique - Nouveautés 2026

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

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The new Limosa notification

The Programme Law of 27 December 2006 obliges assigning employers (for their assigned employees) and assigned self-employed workers to make a prior no…

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Wage freeze 2013-2014: A done deal?

On 29 March 2013, the Council of Ministers adopted a Royal Decree regarding the (previously announced) wage freeze for 2013 and 2014.

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Is it still interesting for an employer to set up a bonus linked to results?

The attribution of a bonus linked to results is no longer interesting from a social security point of view (with the exception of a reduction of 2% of…

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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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Brussels Labour Court of Appeal Disallows Use of E-Mails Obtained in Violation of the Privacy Rules

On 7 February 2013, the Brussels Labour Court of Appeal rendered a judgment on the admissibility into evidence of e-mails obtained in violation of the…

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Program Law: forewarned is forearmed

This contribution comments on the most important changes adopted by the program law of 27 December 2012 and briefly discusses what changes are expecte…

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Employing foreign workers on the Belgian territory: watch out as from 31 March!

  On 1 June 2011, the federal government signed a cooperation agreement with the regions and communities on coordination of the controls on illeg…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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New salary ceilings as from 1 January 2013

The law of 3 July 1978 relating to the employment contracts

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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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