Belgium: Wage gap: still an unacceptable level!

After the positive trend of a few years ago, the wage gap between women and men now seems to have stagnated at 20% for four years now. On the one …

Belgium: Part-time work is rarely a deliberate choice

One of the main causes of the wage gap and the resulting pension gap is the unequal distribution of work. Women work much more often part-time than men. Most of …

Administrative Commission for the settlement of the employment relationship, 23/02/2018

If the facts communicated by the potential future employee lead to the conclusion that the envisaged employment relationship, consisting of the delivery of meals by bicycle, is not characteristic of …

Belgium: C.Const. 22 février 2018, Case Nr. 6629

The Constitutional Court confirms the obligation of the public employer to respect the requirement of a pre-dismissal hearing for contract workers (not only for civil servants). This puts an end …

Belgium: C.Const., 1 Feb. 2018, Case Nr. 6542, cour-const.be

Articles 1382 and 1383 of the Civil Code, as interpreted by the Court of Cassation, and article 95 of the Insurance Act of 4 April 2014 are compatible with articles …

France: Cour de Cassation, Chambre Sociale, November 15, 2017, 16-14.281

Procedure explanation: Highest Court in Labor Law Matters. All other courts must follow its ruling. An employee having been terminated on the ground of his age has been discriminated.  Under …

Belgium: C.Trav., 23 Oct. 2017, Case Nr. 2015/AB/934

Failure to provide reasonable accommodation is in itself discrimination only in so far as it can be qualified as a refusal, which presupposes that a request for accommodation has been …

Belgium: Cass., 9 Oct. 2017, S.12.0062.N, applying the CJEU decision

It follows from the European Court of Justice’s decision that the right to compensation of a worker dismissed as a result of non-compliance with an employer’s order or prohibition which …

Belgium: C.Trav. Brux., 20 June 2017, Case Nr. 2015/AB/197

In the context of the operation of a training institute, the fixing of course periods, the existence of annual closing periods, the setting up of schedules and the organization of …

LOI n° 2017-399 du 27 mars 2017 relative au devoir de vigilance des sociétés mères et des entreprises donneuses d’ordre

La loi française sur le devoir de vigilance des entreprises impose l’obligation légale d’identifier et de prévenir les impacts négatifs sur les droits de l’homme et l’environnement résultant de leurs …