Employees often play a key role in exposing and preventing breaches of important legislation by the company or organization they work for. These breaches can often be very harmful to the public interest.
The European Commission has notified the Member States of its draft regulations setting the thresholds that will apply from 1 January 2020 for two years.
Today, at the occasion of the Conflict Resolution Day, our Dispute Resolution Team releases two other fact sheets about Dispute Resolution Methods and Arbitration in Belgium.
Just in time for Cyber Security Month: the FSMA has published, in collaboration with the Centre for Cyber Security Belgium, a document on the basic principles for the management of cybersecurity risks.
On 1 October 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on a number of preliminary questions addressed to it by the German Bundesgerichtshof regarding the concept of consent by a data subject to the processing of (personal) data by means of cookies and the duty of information incumben
In its judgements of 24 September 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that "de-referencing" is limited to just European Union domains and that Google does not have to remove search results simply because they contain sensitive information. This is not the first time that Google has de
Posting of employees by an employer to a third party who uses the employees and exercises employer’s authority over them is in principle prohibited (Article 31, § 1 of the Temporary Employment Act).
In its judgement of 12 September 2019, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) ruled that copyright protection may not be granted to designs on the sole ground that they produce a specific aesthetic effect. The case concerned two companies active in the sector of design, production and sale of clot
Summertime is the slack season for social law. This was not different this year. There was almost no legislation published with significant relevance for employers. An exception is the new regulation on training leave for employees working in Flanders.
22/05/2025 Productaansprakelijkheid anno 2025: enkele vernieuwingen onder de loep (in Dutch)