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The End of Mandatory Telework?

On Friday 4 June 2021, a new Ministerial Decree was published in the Belgian State Gazette that includes new provisions regarding telework. For the time being, telework remains compulsory and employers remain obliged to register their non-teleworkable positions with the National Social Security Office (NSSO) and to provide workers whose presence at the workplace is needed with a certificate confirming this fact. However, as from 9 June 2021, employers will have the option to organise weekly ‘return moments’ to the workplace...

Dies Irae at the Belgian National Orchestra: The Brussels Court of Appeal Rules on Musicians’ Neighbouring Rights

The health crisis has not eased the tensions between the management and the trade unions of the Belgian National Orchestra (“BNO”). The pandemic has even caused an additional outbreak of ‘fever’, which even a Brussels Court of Appeal ruling on 7 May 2021 will probably not be enough to ‘cure’... At issue is the fate of musicians' rights to reproductions and broadcasts of their performances. The dilemma of orchestras during a health crisis In Belgium, as in many other countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a ‘freeze’ in public musical performances...

Must AstraZeneca Supply the European Union with Sufficient COVID-19 Vaccines under Belgian Law?

Introduction On 27 August 2020 the European Commission, on behalf of EU member states, entered into an advance purchase agreement (APA) with AstraZeneca for the production, purchase and supply of the Anglo-Swedish company's COVID-19 vaccine in the European Union.(1) The APA provides for: AstraZeneca's supply of 300 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine (the initial Europe doses); and an option for the European Union to order an additional 100 million doses (

Occupational Doctors' Enhanced Role in Combating COVID-19: Contact Tracing, Quarantine Certificates and Testing

Introduction On 21 January 2021 a new royal decree was published in the Official Gazette which has temporarily extended occupational doctors' role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic in the workplace. Occupational doctors will be contact tracers in the workplace and in this context have been given the authority to: identify high-risk contacts in the company; issue a quarantine certificate for these workers; and refer certain workers to be tested or to carry out the test themselves if they consider such action to be more appropriate. This does not mean that employers can now have their workers tested on a large scale and systematically...

New National Labour Council CLA Sets Framework for Covid-Telework

Traditionally, Belgian labour law distinguishes between two forms of telework, namely structural telework, regulated by the Collective Labour Agreement n° 85, and occasional telework, regulated by the Act on Workable and Agile Work. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a third category has been added, namely 'Covid telework', which was, at a certain point, recommended but has now been made compulsory again by the government. Until recently, this ‘Covid telework’ was a 'sui generis' regime for which no legal framework had been developed...
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