Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Belgium as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Belgium: New expatriate tax regime
Further details are now available about the new expatriate tax regime for highly qualified professionals …
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Belgium: 4-day week & right to disconnect
Last month, we reported that civil servants working for Belgium’s federal government were given the right to disconnect …
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Belgium: GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful
The Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD) has brought into question the use of consent pop-ups on websites …
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Belgium: Mailboxes of ex-employees
The Litigation Chamber of the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has been called upon to rule on how email inboxes should be handled when an employee departs …
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Belgium: Government workers can soon ignore their boss after work hours
Central State employees will soon have the right to disconnect outside normal working hours …
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Belgium: Engie Electrabel offers bonus equal to one year’s pay to avoid staff departures
The Belgian electrical generation company Engie Electrabel is offering special guarantees to employees at its two nuclear power stations …
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Belgium: Indexed CO2 levy payment
A new indexed CO2 levy payment will be applicable for eligible company vehicles next year …
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Belgium: Corona parental leave
Right to be absent without pay from work to care for a minor child who is denied school (or daycare) due to a COVID-19 closure order …
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Belgium: Flemish annual bonus
The Flemish government will be introducing its promised annual bonus next year …
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Belgium: Brussels court rules couriers not employees
The Brussels Labour Court has found that platform-based Deliveroo couriers are self-employed …
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Belgium: New special tax regime for expatriates proposed
The government is introducing a new tax free allowance system for higher-paid expatriates and well qualified researchers …
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Belgium: Committee reaches agreement on employment conditions
Agreement has been reached by the country’s largest joint industry committee – JC200 …
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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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