Social legislation & belgian reglementation

INTRODUCTION
  • Essential elements of the employment relationship
    • Autority
    • Salary
    • Work to be delivered
  • Employment relationships and the employment contract
  • The distinction between employee and labourer
    • Definitions
    • Scope of application of this distinction
  • The notion of « employment stability »
PERSONAL COMMITMENT : THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT
  • Legal value of the employment contract
    • The employment contract and legal stipulations and reglementations
    • The employment contract and collective bargaining agreements
    • The employment contract and workrule reglementations
  • Types of employment contracts
    • Employment contracts for Employees and for Labourers
    • Specific categories of personnel (sales representatives, …)
    • The employment contract unlimited in time
    • The employment contract limited in time
    • The contract for a clearly defined task
    • Atypical contracts :
      • The part-time employment contract
      • The contract of substitution
      • The temporary employment contract
      • The interim contract
      • The contract of student employment
      • The contract of domestic work
      • Internship contract
      • The learning trainee contract
  • Setting up the employment contract
    • Clauses requiring a written statement :
      • The test period
      • The limited duration clause
      • The clearly defined task
      • The non-competition clause
      • The clause of duration of the severance period
    • Clauses focusing on particular obligations :
      • Obligations concerning sickness leave
      • Obligations of confidentiality
      • Obligations concerning use of electronic equipment
SUSPENSION OF THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT
  • The causes for contract suspension : incapacitation, annual leave, career interruption and employment searchtime (timecredit), parental leave, … 
EMPLOYMENT  REDUNDANCY
  • Termination requiring severance time notification, or requiring severance pay in lieu of servicing time
  • Formalities
    • Duration of the severance time service
    • Calculating severance pay in lieu of servicing time
    • Termination negotiations
    • Rights and duties of all parties during severance time
  • Termination for «substantial motive» 
    • The notion of «substantial motive»
    • Formalities
  • Particular rules applicable to specific contracts
    • Limited-time contracts and contracts for a clearly defined task
    • Atypical contracts
  • The need for motivation of termination
    • The principle : absence of motivation
    • The exception of abusive termination for the labourer
    • Indirect exceptions :
      • Maternity leave Equal compensation treatment
      • Career interruption
      • Professional training
      • Conventional company transfer
    • The ‘hard’ exceptions : obligation to motivate
      • Delegates and candidates to the Company Council and to the Comittee for labour prevention and protection
      • Trade union representatives
  • The termination act
    • Notion
    • The reaction of the worker
      • Termination by the employer
      • Judiciary dissolution
EMPLOYING FOREIGN EMPLOYEES & WORKERS
  • Citizens of European Union countries and other countries
  • Professional immigration
    • The work permit :
      • Procedure
      • Formalities
    • The residence permit
    • Registration in the community of residence
  • Labour law status
    • Filling out the expatriate document
    • Direct employment
    • Applicable law
  • Social security law and status
    • Member countries of the European Union
    • Bilateral treaty countries
    • Other countries
THE COLLECTIVE CONVENTION FOR SECTORIAL WORK
  • The legal status of the collective bargaining agreement
  • The contents of sectorial agreements