Belgium: Unfair/ Wrongful Dismissal

Stock options and share awards have become integral components of senior employee compensation packages, but what happens to these equity-based benefits when employment ends? This comprehensive analysis examines how 29 countries worldwide handle the inclusion of stock options, RSUs, and other share awards in severance pay calculations, revealing significant variations in legal approaches and employer obligations.

In Belgium, employers must generally accept a valid medical certificate when an employee reports sickness absence.

When employees on sick leave share photos of festivals, sports activities, or travel on social media, employers across Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands face complex questions...

Les employeurs qui envisagent un licenciement collectif doivent désormais tenir compte des formulaires mis à jour par le SPF ETCS. Tant le formulaire d'annonce...

A recent legislative proposal sets out the future rules regarding the obligation to motivate the dismissal of contractual workers in the public sector and offer protection against manifestly unreasonable dismissal.

An Act has been passed to enhance the protection of employees undergoing fertility treatments.

In 30 out of 49 countries we surveyed, employers cannot dismiss employees on the grounds that the business in which they work has been transferred to new ownership.

In a judgement of 14 June 2021, the Supreme Court ruled on a dispute over the sale of a car. The parties both claimed having agreed on a different price.

After being suspended for more than five months because of the COVID-19-pandemic, the 2020 social elections procedures have resumed in the 7.000 companies concerned by these elections.