Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Belgium as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Belgium: Government reimposes telework mandates to fight covid-19 surge
In order to deal with the latest sudden upsurge in COVID-19, the government has imposed new home-working requirements …
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Belgium: Supreme Court rules that GDPR fine may imposed even where a data subject’s personal data were not processed
Systems that rely on direct inputs of data from individual’s identity cards violate Article 6 of the GDPR …
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Belgium: European Commission questions independence of Belgium’s Data Protection Authority
The independence of the Data Protection Authority (DPA) is being investigated by the European Commission …
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Belgium: Employees to get paid leave for taking child to vaccination appointment
Parents may now take paid leave during working hours to accompany their young children having a COVID-19 vaccination …
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Belgium: Government discusses moving to 4-day week
The Federal government has been debating recently the introduction of a 4-day week …
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Belgium: Regional authorities set 2022 salary criteria
Next year’s minimum salary thresholds have been announced for non-EEA/Swiss employees not requiring a labour market investigation before a work permit is issued …
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Belgium: Special tax treatment of expatriates
A change has been announced concerning the special tax treatment of expatriates …
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Belgium: Changes to employees’ pension entitlements
During the next year, employees are likely to see significant changes to their pension entitlements …
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Belgium: Council of State considers encryption a sufficient measure for US data transfers
The Council of State has concluded that the use of US-based cloud services does not, in itself, infringe the GDPR and that encryption is a valid supplementary measure to protect transatlantic data transfers …
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Belgium: Home working accounts for two out of five employees (June 2021)
Home working remained very common in June 2021, with 41 …
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Belgium: Statutory bereavement leave extended to ten days
Statutory “bereavement leave” has now been extended from three to ten days …
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Belgium: Constitutional Court prohibits the infinite use of successive short-term and replacement contracts
The use of alternating temporary and replacement contracts for longer than two years has been found by the Constitutional Court to be unlawful …
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Belgium: Government ups flu vaccine order
The Belgian Health Ministry has ordered an additional 900,000 doses of flu vaccine for this Autumn’s immunization programme …
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Belgium: Carbon dioxide monitors
Some workplaces, and all restaurants and public amenities, have had to be fitted with carbon dioxide monitors …
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Belgium: Lockdown relaxed
The obligation for all employees to work on a remote basis unless their workplace presence is essential has now been removed …
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