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Mobility

Mobility survey: let's get started!

26 June 2024
Every three years, employers occupying an average of more than 100 employees are required to examine the status of mobility within their company. For employers in Brussels, this federal obligation is supplemented by a regional obligation. The survey begins on 30 June 2024.
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Social security

Brussels-Capital Region: new premium

24 June 2024
The Government of the Brussels-Capital Region is introducing a new employment aid if you hire a person with a disability. This aid will be available from 1 July 2024, provided certain conditions are met.
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Taxation

Small and micro-companies: adapting the size criteria

21 June 2024
For a company to be considered small certain thresholds must not be exceeded. These thresholds will be adjusted upwards for the financial years starting after 31 December 2023.
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Employment contract
Termination employment contract

Student: how to terminate a contract?

20 June 2024
As the student employment contract is a fixed-term contract, it automatically ends on the end date indicated in the contract, with no notice required. However, it is possible to terminate the contract before the end of that date.
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Employment contract

A student job during the holidays? What do you need to do?

20 June 2024
Every year, when summer holidays are approaching, the question of student employment conditions arises. As a reminder, since the 2022-2023 academic year, the end date of the school year differs between Flanders and the Walloon and Brussels regions
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Taxation

Partial exemption from payment of withholding tax for shift work: “bis variant”

19 June 2024
The “shift work” exemption applies to shifts performing the same work. The government envisaged a more flexible bis variant
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Absences

Annual leave: temporary unemployment due to collective closing of the company

19 June 2024
In the event of a collective closure of the company, some workers may not (or no longer) be entitled to paid leave or a sufficient number of days of leave to cover the entire period of collective closure. What about their remuneration for these days of closure?
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Working conditions

Joint Internal Service for Prevention and Protection at Work: set up rules relaxed from 1 July 2024

17 June 2024
A group of employers can set up a joint Internal Service for Prevention and Protection at Work.
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Taxation
Social security

Increase of the office allowance on 1 June 2024

17 June 2024
Employees who work from home on a structural and regular basis for a substantial part of their working time, may receive a flat-rate office allowance from their employer to cover all their office expenses.
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Social security

Paid sportspersons: salary ceiling from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025

12 June 2024
Persons exceeding this ceiling are irrefutably deemed to be subject to social security.
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Social security

NSSO: increase of the mobility allowance

11 June 2024
The amount of the mobility allowance increases as from 1st July 2024.
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Employment contract

Exemption from employing young workers under a 'first job agreement' (FJA) in JC 126, 129 and 221

11 June 2024
When certain conditions are met employers are obliged to employ a given number of young workers aged under 26. Except if they are exempted from this obligation.
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