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The Belgian legal order tends to hold every individual company accountable as a separate legal entity and maintains that a corporate group has no legal personality as such. Notwithstanding power relations present between companies in a group, regulations are often not amended to take these changed circumstances into account. Specific labor law provisions concerned with corporate groups are scarce and mainly try to preserve social dialogue in ...

In Belgium, a flexible arrangement that does not, however, go as far as allowing on-call work and also functions as a policy instrument against undeclared work has been introduced. In fact, one of the compensatory measures introduced by the Belgian legislature in 2015 to compensate for the introduction of the so-called “white cash register,” i.e. a measure to prevent undeclared work in the “hospitality sector” (hotels, restaurants and bars), was ...

Policymakers across the world have been concerned about the increasing prominence of platform work arrangements. In these jobs, workers rely on a platform to obtain what are often short-term 'gigs'. Problematic is the fact that these workers tend not to enjoy much income stability, which is aggravated due to their poor access to social security protections. They also suffer from other deficits, like a lack of occupational safety and health ...