Employees who are unable to work during electricity brownouts or blackouts this winter will still have to be paid, according to the human resources consultancy SD Worx. The company advised employers to prepare in advance by arranging alternative work or flexible working hours. Should a power cut...

In September, 2014, the unemployment rate in Belgium was 2.5% lower than in the same month last year, according to figures from the National Employment Office (NEO). The NEO counted 464,098 unemployed people in Belgium in September, 2014, which is 2.5% less than in September, 2013. The unemployment...

According to the World Economic Forum (WEF) report on Gender Equality, Belgium is number 10, up one place compared to 2013. Leading the ranking is Iceland at number one, followed by Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. At the bottom of the list is Yemen, having only closed 51% of its gender gap,...

The University of Antwerp has been commissioned by the European Union to come up with a plan to get Belgian healthcare providers to be more cautious with antibiotics. As many as 2,000 to 3,000 Belgians die each year due to hospital-acquired infections, many caused by bacteria which has become...

Matthias Storme (N-VA) has been appointed as a member of the board of the new Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities. Opposition parties have questioned Storme’s suitability for the role, as he has in the past expressed opposition to anti-discrimination legislation, arguing that discrimination...

What do you do for work? I coordinate the campaigns developed by the communications office of Square Melon. That means I make sure that everything goes according to plan. I function as a liaison between the people in the field, the logistics and the commercial employees. So I make sure, for example...

Saint Nicholas sidekick Père Fouettard, known in Dutch as Zwarte Piet (Black Peter) and usually represented by a white person in blackface, is not an illegal form of racial discrimination, according to Belgium’s Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities. Père Fouettard is supposed to be a Moorish...

The Belgian police will temporarily stop carrying out the repatriation of asylum seekers to West African countries affected by Ebola. While asylum seekers from those countries continue to receive deportation notices, the police are refusing to enforce them, reports Het Nieuwsblad . A police escort...

As of January 1, 2015, exactly 5,315 people in the Brussels-Capital Region will lose their right to unemployment benefits. "Single women with children, who in the past worked part-time, are the hardest hit," says Zoé Genot, Ecolo fraction leader in the Brussels Parliament. The former government...