Abstracts » Human resources and labor relations

Anti-harassment law reviewed

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Belgium's 2002 law on harassment underwent public evaluation recently. The new law provides employees a framework to seek informal assistance and sparked a fierce debate among companies on the harassment issue. The evaluation highlights some shortcomings in the legislation, such as lack of clarity. It also establishes the need to modify and reform the prevention provisions and informal procedure under the new law.

Harassment (Law), Harassment, Law reform, Legal reform

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Belgium: new committee to focus on self-employed people

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The federal government has established a round table committee to examine the statute relating to self-employed people and to amend the statute in order to bring it more into line with that relating to employees. The cost measures designed to improve the social security situation for self-employed people would be shared between the government and the self-employed.

Social Security, Analysis, Self employment

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Possible changes to unemployment benefit

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The plans of Swedish government to amend rules on unemployment insurance are presented.

Sweden, Unemployment Insurance, Unemployed workers

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