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Start your own Business Seminar : 20 May 2021
Start your own business in Belgium - Online Edition Thursday 20 May 2021 Welcome to the 2021 edition of Belgium's premier business start up event. This event is dedicated [...]
Working from home – here’s how to stay sane!
The Louvain4Work team have produced a new paper on staying sane while working from home. Composed of an interdisciplinary consortium of UCLouvain professors and researchers who study different aspects [...]
All temporary unemployment measures rolled forward to 30 June 2021
Employers can continue to use the Corona temporary unemployment measures but only if they have used the scheme for at least 20% of regular working hours during April, May [...]
Quarantine after your summer holidays?
What happens if one of your employees has to quarantine for two weeks when they get back from holiday? If she or he can't work from home then his/her [...]
Extension of validity of meal vouchers and eco-vouchers?
Due to the coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19), the Belgian government took exceptional and temporary measures and closed many shops and all restaurants. This has had a significant impact [...]
Maternity leave
The law now grants fifteen weeks of maternity leave to all mothers, even those who had to stop work early. […]
Lunch vouchers and other cheques – extended validity
The royal decree published on 4 June confirms that the validity of any lunch vouchers, ecocheques or 'cheques-cadeaux' that were due to expire between March and June 2020 will be [...]
Temporary unemployment for coronavirus extended until 30 June
The Government will extend the temporary unemployment measures for a further month when they expire on 31 May. […]
Special corona parental leave for May/June 2020
Employees who have been working for at least one month can reduce their working schedule by 1/5th or ½ for their children under 12, during the period from 1st [...]
Start your own Business Seminar 2020
Start your own business in Belgium - Online Edition Thursday 14 May 2020 Welcome to 2020 edition of Belgium's premier business start up event. This event is dedicated to [...]
Employing students
As you know, it is relatively inexpensive to employ students in Belgium because you and they pay less social security than other employees – the employer pays 5.42 % of [...]
Get work permits faster
The Belgian authorities have recently taken a series of measures to speed up the work permit application process. Last year the authorities introduced a single permit (permis unique [...]
Start your own Business Seminar : 20 May 2021
Start your own business in Belgium - Online Edition Thursday 20 May 2021 Welcome to the 2021 edition of Belgium's premier business start up event. This event is dedicated [...]
Working from home – here’s how to stay sane!
The Louvain4Work team have produced a new paper on staying sane while working from home. Composed of an interdisciplinary consortium of UCLouvain professors and researchers who study different aspects [...]
All temporary unemployment measures rolled forward to 30 June 2021
Employers can continue to use the Corona temporary unemployment measures but only if they have used the scheme for at least 20% of regular working hours during April, May [...]
Quarantine after your summer holidays?
What happens if one of your employees has to quarantine for two weeks when they get back from holiday? If she or he can't work from home then his/her [...]
Extension of validity of meal vouchers and eco-vouchers?
Due to the coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19), the Belgian government took exceptional and temporary measures and closed many shops and all restaurants. This has had a significant impact [...]
Maternity leave
The law now grants fifteen weeks of maternity leave to all mothers, even those who had to stop work early. […]
Lunch vouchers and other cheques – extended validity
The royal decree published on 4 June confirms that the validity of any lunch vouchers, ecocheques or 'cheques-cadeaux' that were due to expire between March and June 2020 will be [...]
Temporary unemployment for coronavirus extended until 30 June
The Government will extend the temporary unemployment measures for a further month when they expire on 31 May. […]
Special corona parental leave for May/June 2020
Employees who have been working for at least one month can reduce their working schedule by 1/5th or ½ for their children under 12, during the period from 1st [...]
Start your own Business Seminar 2020
Start your own business in Belgium - Online Edition Thursday 14 May 2020 Welcome to 2020 edition of Belgium's premier business start up event. This event is dedicated to [...]
Employing students
As you know, it is relatively inexpensive to employ students in Belgium because you and they pay less social security than other employees – the employer pays 5.42 % of [...]
Get work permits faster
The Belgian authorities have recently taken a series of measures to speed up the work permit application process. Last year the authorities introduced a single permit (permis unique [...]
Start your own Business Seminar : 20 May 2021
Start your own business in Belgium - Online Edition Thursday 20 May 2021 Welcome to the 2021 edition of Belgium's premier business start up event. This event is dedicated [...]
Working from home – here’s how to stay sane!
The Louvain4Work team have produced a new paper on staying sane while working from home. Composed of an interdisciplinary consortium of UCLouvain professors and researchers who study different aspects [...]
All temporary unemployment measures rolled forward to 30 June 2021
Employers can continue to use the Corona temporary unemployment measures but only if they have used the scheme for at least 20% of regular working hours during April, May [...]
Quarantine after your summer holidays?
What happens if one of your employees has to quarantine for two weeks when they get back from holiday? If she or he can't work from home then his/her [...]
Extension of validity of meal vouchers and eco-vouchers?
Due to the coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19), the Belgian government took exceptional and temporary measures and closed many shops and all restaurants. This has had a significant impact [...]
Maternity leave
The law now grants fifteen weeks of maternity leave to all mothers, even those who had to stop work early. […]
Lunch vouchers and other cheques – extended validity
The royal decree published on 4 June confirms that the validity of any lunch vouchers, ecocheques or 'cheques-cadeaux' that were due to expire between March and June 2020 will be [...]
Temporary unemployment for coronavirus extended until 30 June
The Government will extend the temporary unemployment measures for a further month when they expire on 31 May. […]
Special corona parental leave for May/June 2020
Employees who have been working for at least one month can reduce their working schedule by 1/5th or ½ for their children under 12, during the period from 1st [...]
Start your own Business Seminar 2020
Start your own business in Belgium - Online Edition Thursday 14 May 2020 Welcome to 2020 edition of Belgium's premier business start up event. This event is dedicated to [...]
Employing students
As you know, it is relatively inexpensive to employ students in Belgium because you and they pay less social security than other employees – the employer pays 5.42 % of [...]
Get work permits faster
The Belgian authorities have recently taken a series of measures to speed up the work permit application process. Last year the authorities introduced a single permit (permis unique [...]
Start your own Business Seminar : 20 May 2021
Start your own business in Belgium - Online Edition Thursday 20 May 2021 Welcome to the 2021 edition of Belgium's premier business start up event. This event is dedicated [...]
Working from home – here’s how to stay sane!
The Louvain4Work team have produced a new paper on staying sane while working from home. Composed of an interdisciplinary consortium of UCLouvain professors and researchers who study different aspects [...]
All temporary unemployment measures rolled forward to 30 June 2021
Employers can continue to use the Corona temporary unemployment measures but only if they have used the scheme for at least 20% of regular working hours during April, May [...]
Quarantine after your summer holidays?
What happens if one of your employees has to quarantine for two weeks when they get back from holiday? If she or he can't work from home then his/her [...]
Extension of validity of meal vouchers and eco-vouchers?
Due to the coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19), the Belgian government took exceptional and temporary measures and closed many shops and all restaurants. This has had a significant impact [...]
Maternity leave
The law now grants fifteen weeks of maternity leave to all mothers, even those who had to stop work early. […]
Lunch vouchers and other cheques – extended validity
The royal decree published on 4 June confirms that the validity of any lunch vouchers, ecocheques or 'cheques-cadeaux' that were due to expire between March and June 2020 will be [...]
Temporary unemployment for coronavirus extended until 30 June
The Government will extend the temporary unemployment measures for a further month when they expire on 31 May. […]
Special corona parental leave for May/June 2020
Employees who have been working for at least one month can reduce their working schedule by 1/5th or ½ for their children under 12, during the period from 1st [...]
Start your own Business Seminar 2020
Start your own business in Belgium - Online Edition Thursday 14 May 2020 Welcome to 2020 edition of Belgium's premier business start up event. This event is dedicated to [...]
Employing students
As you know, it is relatively inexpensive to employ students in Belgium because you and they pay less social security than other employees – the employer pays 5.42 % of [...]
Get work permits faster
The Belgian authorities have recently taken a series of measures to speed up the work permit application process. Last year the authorities introduced a single permit (permis unique [...]
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