• 11 March 2024

    Social elections 2024: electoral colleges and polling stations

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    During the electoral procedure various formalities will have to be completed including the constitution of the electoral colleges and the composition of the polling stations.
  • 12 January 2024

    Your employee is ill during his leave: a specific template of medical certificate is provided.

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    Since 1 January 2024, a specific template for a medical certificate can be submitted by your employee if he falls ill during his annual leave. However, use of this template is not compulsory.
  • 24 October 2023

    Whistleblower: internal reporting channel mandatory if you have at least 50 employees

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    A law of 28 November 2022 allows an employee who has obtained information about violations in a professional context to raise the alarm via an internal reporting channel.
  • 07 June 2023

    Paid sportspersons: salary ceiling from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024

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    “Paid sportsperson” means a person occupied in preparing or taking part in a sports competition or exhibition under the authority of another person in return for pay exceeding a certain amount.
  • 13 November 2018

    100 "voluntary & negotiated" overtime hours

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    Each year a worker can voluntarily work 100 overtime hours. (A sectoral collective bargaining agreement may increase this limit to 360 hours). Both the employer and the worker must agree, but the worker is supposed to take the initiative. A. When and how these overtime hours can be worked?
  • 20 December 2023

    flash controls in the construction sector (including electro-technical and metal sector) in January 2024

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    During the whole month of January 2024, the social inspection services will carry out national flash controls in the construction sector (including electro-technical and metal sector).
  • 13 March 2024

    Right to disconnect 1 year already!

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    The right to disconnect must be guaranteed in certain companies from 1 April 2023. In concrete terms, if you employ at least 20 workers, you are required to provide for this right via a company collective bargaining agreement (CBA) or your employment regulations.
  • 02 October 2023

    Purchasing power bonus mandatory in your sector?

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    What is a purchasing power bonus? Below you will find all the information you need and you will be able to find out whether you are obliged to award this bonus.
  • 24 November 2023

    Temporary unemployment: additional supplement at the employer’s expense from 1 January 2024

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    If you make an employee temporarily unemployed, you will have to pay him/her, from 1 January 2024, in addition to the existing supplement(s), an amount of EUR 5 per day of unemployment, unless a subsistence security fund takes care of that payment.
  • 12 June 2023

    New type of Dimona 'ALT' for apprentices

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    The NSSO provides a new type of Dimona for apprentices in alternate training. The Dimona ALT will have to be used from the beginning of the new school year in all regions.