Issue 1 – HR Services Newsletter
The fist edition of the HR Services Newsletter is now available.
Our Newsletter offers information on the latest developments in the area of Human Resources in Belgium. Each issue is filled with articles on news, changes and proposals in the HR environment. All articles are written by our in-house experts.
We look forward to receiving any reactions, suggestions or remarks from you regarding the Newsletter. We hope that you find it a valuable initiative.
Content :
- Editorial – Eric Cauwels, Partner
- Reshaping the Supplementary Pensions Landscape – Gijs Celis, ABC Services
Minister for Pensions, Frank Vandenbroucke, wants to create a new landscape for supplementary pensions by next year. For that purpose, the government has submitted a bill on pension schemes to the Legislative Council. Parliament is expected to pass the bill before the end of the year. The implementing orders may follow quickly - Self-employed Persons v. Employees: Are We Soon To See More Equivalence in Social Security Benefits? – Franck Ruelens & Stefan Nerinckx, Landwell
With regard to the equivalence aimed at between the social security benefits of self-employed persons and employees, the new government has already made a good deal of progress. The report on areas in which consensus is hard to attain, prepared under the direction of Bea Cantillon, was received positively by the responsible ministers; to put it in their words: “It provides us with the architecture of the house in which employees and self-employed will live together and share a number of rooms; the interior architecture and the costs are still up for discussion.” - Company Managers: the End of the ‘Attraction’ Principle? – Pascal Borgoens, Personal Tax
Belgium’s constitutional court (the so-called ‘Arbitration Court’) has partly nullified the principle of ‘attraction’: who does the principle still apply to now?
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Posted: September 15th, 2001Tags: company managers, HR environment, HR Services, Human Resources, pensions, social security
