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Collective employment relations

The coronavirus COVID-19 is having an impact on our lives as never before. As of 12 noon on Wednesday 18 March 2020, stringent measures are in force in Belgium with far-reaching consequences for companies and their employees.

More than 1,000,000 Belgians are currently temporarily unemployed. Many companies are being faced with a substantial decrease of activities where others are short of hands and dealing with a high absenteeism due to illness. These are extremely complex times for company directors and HR professionals.

The Claeys & Engels team has been inundated with questions these past weeks. We wish to share our knowledge with our clients in these FAQs, which we have drafted based on the current legislation. This newsletter gives an overview of the information on 29 April at 8am. We hope these are helpful to you and we aim to update these on a regular basis whenever there is a new HR legal topic in this matter. We are also happy to keep you updated via our newsflashes and webinars.

In the meantime we are – as always – ready to help you with any HR-related legal questions you may have!

We wish you all the best and most of all, stay safe!

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