On 24 March 2021, the Belgian government introduced a registration tool for employers to indicate how many employees will work at the company premises, despite the work from home obligation imposed by the government, ...

After being suspended for more than five months because of the COVID-19-pandemic, the 2020 social elections procedures have resumed in the 7.000 companies concerned by these elections.

As COVID-19 continues to spread, many public authorities and other entities subject to public procurement law (including most hospitals and nursing homes), are becoming increasingly confronted with a pressing need to purchase certain goods or services.

This may lead to unexpected tax consequences for the company.

To support the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU has introduced a new temporary short-form prospectus for certain types of issuers (the EU Recovery Prospectus).

The European Court of Justice case of CCOO v Deutsche Bank in the summer of 2019 made it clear that employers must have objective, reliable and accessible systems for recording and measuring the duration of time worked ...

Tijdens de Coronapandemie heeft de federale overheid een overbruggingsrecht voor zelfstandigen uitgewerkt.

The coronavirus crisis has expedited the digitalisation of many everyday working processes as organisations around the globe rapidly implement technological solutions to ensure business continuity...

We provide here a brief overview that is neither exhaustive nor definitive.

Days of temporary unemployment due to force majeure resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic are now taken into account for the calculation of holiday entitlement in Belgium.

As the benefits of increasing diversity across the workforce gain traction, some forward-thinking employers are starting to consider how to harness the talents of people who may be highly skilled or have a lot to offer, but find it hard to function well in traditional workplaces.

This regular alert covers key regulatory developments related to EU emergency responses, including in particular to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine...

In Belgium, several legal measures were adopted with effect from 18 March 2020 to cope with the crisis caused by the Covid-19 virus.

Belgium has so far been spared from coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreaks.

Since the start of the pandemic, the Belgian government has taken several measures in order to protect the population from the effects of the Covid-19 virus.

The Supreme Court ("Hof van Cassatie/Court of Cassation") overruled on 26 May 2023 a decision that determined that Article 1722 (old) Civil Code (a partial or total "destruction" of the leased premises)...

Many organisations are taking preventive measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19, ranging from health and travel questionnaires to temperature measurement.

What does the current ban on non-essential travel mean for professional travel to and from Belgium?...

For many companies, 2020 will turn out to be drastically different than expected. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is still hard to predict, but there is no doubt that a number of companies...

In view of the continuing obligation of the requirement to telework in Belgium and with stricter controls by the social inspection services...