According to a survey among 1,000 Belgian employees, 6 out of 10 employees intend to watch Euro 2016. Another survey among 200 HR managers revealed, however, that 7 out of 10 Belgian employers fear a reduction in productivity in the coming weeks due to Euro 2016. One should, perhaps, not be too surprised knowing that 2 employees out of 3 expect management will turn a…

If an employee is dismissed for serious cause, and this serious cause is later found to be unfair, the employee is not entitled to damages because the employer did not make an outplacement offer, nor does such a dismissal qualify automatically as a case of manifestly unfair dismissal. In case of dismissal, the employer is in certain circumstances obliged to make an outplacement offer, in…

On 18 March 2016, a Royal Decree (RD) enabling night work for e commerce activities in the distribution sectors was published. This RD provides for working-time arrangements with night work to be introduced at company level in these sectors. Recently, sectoral collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) in the sectorial committees 201 (independent retail), 202 (retail in foodstuffs), 202.01 (medium sized food stores), 311 (large retail) and…