Almost every employee in Belgium receives an extra-legal benefit from the employer in addition to salary. The range of extra-legal benefits is huge. Here is an overview with more than 10 strong common employee benefits in Belgium. A Pension Scheme is Included in a...
Belgium has many peculiarities like the important difference between blue collar workers and white collar workers. This is not only visible in a number of differences in the reciprocal rights and obligations of the employer and the employee. You will also notice this...
Easy wage indexation 2024, after giant indexation 2023. Employers in Joint Industrial Committee 200 (JIC 200) are relieved and look to the future with a positive outlook. The System Every January, the salaries of employees in companies in Joint Industrial Committee...
A quick-start of doing Business in Belgium is easy. With the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (CBE), an Enterprise Number and assistance of an Enterprise Counter also foreign companies can easily start-up business in Belgium. The Belgian government is facilitating the...
Why an Employer's Obligation? In this post, we want to focus on the Belgian employers obligation to keep work regulations, also called "workers regulations" or "arbeidsreglement" (in Dutch) or "réglement de travail" (in French). The legal provisions are found in the...
A Limosa declaration and a Dimona declaration are mandatory electronic notifications for every employer. Prior to the start of an employee, the employer must declare its employees with an electronic notification system to the Belgian National Social Security Office...
The wage indexation 2023 is gigantic high. Each year in January, there is wage indexation and salary indexation for blue collar employees and white collar employees working in private sector industries in Belgium. In 2023, the indexation is gigantic high, the largest...
The Challenge Facing Employers in Belgium Compliance with Belgian social law, employment law, payroll law and immigration law is a major challenge for many foreign employers seeking to hire staff in Belgium. In this Western European country located on the North Sea...
An Umbrella Company and an Employer of Record are frequently used by expanding companies that want to hire employees in their target markets. They are not familiar with the local rules relating to labor and don't want to concern themselves with administration and...