Overview
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For 2025, we are seeing five key tension areas for employers: one of them is worker welfare. As a business, how do you foster the welfare of your employees and how do you deal with (long-term) absenteeism? Here is some advice based on our HR Outlook.
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Optimise your reintegration process with help from our experts
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Does one of your employees fall ill during his/her holidays? In that case, he/she can recovered these sick days. However, this does come with certain conditions attached.
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Which major changes in laws and regulations are set to be introduced that you do well take into account as an employer? What is new on 1 January 2024 and beyond? Below is an overview of the social-legal changes that will impact your work organisation.
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Disconnecting is about being able to switch off from work, something we can all do with. How do you go about implementing this in such a way that it works?
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Employers see employees' mental well-being through rose-tinted glasses: 8 out of 10 think their staff are doing well to very well. The latter group certainly doesn't always experience it that way, according to a survey of more than 2,500 Belgian employees by Acerta and Stepstone.
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Women are performing more working hours and are less and less opting to take any kind of career break. Nevertheless, part-time parental leave continues to be a popular formula. Not only among mothers: fathers are also taking parental leave more often.
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These are challenging times for you as an employer, but your employees also have financial challenges today. How do you recognise employees with financial problems? And how can you deal with that in your organisation?
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What are SMEs' greatest HR challenges today? Acerta, ETION and VKW Limburg asked 500 Belgian SMEs. What turns out to be the case? Not attracting but retaining employees is number one on the list of hr challenges for the second half of 2022. How do SMEs plan to keep their employees committed to their organisation? You can read about it in this blog.