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Practical articles on staff scheduling, DIMONA, flexi-jobs and HR administration in Belgium.
Leave Planning Without Excel: Practical Guide for 2026
Holiday requests by email, a shared Excel file and a paper calendar by the coffee machine: it works until it doesn't. Here's how to build leave planning that matches your work schedules and Belgian rules.
Holiday Planning 2026: From Leave Request to Watertight Roster
In Belgium, approving leave is not a favour — it is a trade-off between statutory rights and your minimum staffing levels. Here is how to build a holiday plan that survives the summer.
Scheduling Agency Workers in Logistics: The Rules
Agency work keeps your warehouse running when volumes are unpredictable, but the Belgian rules are strict. Find out which grounds apply, when consecutive daily contracts are allowed and how to avoid the NSSO contribution.
Part-time contracts 2026: from the 1/3 rule to the 1/10 rule
The Act of 18 May 2026 lowers the minimum weekly working time for part-time employees from one third to one tenth of a full-time job. What does that mean in practice for your contracts, your work schedules and your planning?
Introducing flexitime: what to include in your work rules
Flexitime schedules give your staff freedom over their start and finish times, but they do require correctly drafted work rules and a reliable time-tracking system. Here is exactly what to put in writing.
Sunday work in retail: what can you schedule?
Being open and being staffed are not the same thing. Discover which exceptions to Sunday rest apply in retail, how much compensatory rest you owe and how to plan Sundays without gaps in your cover.
Shift planning in industry: a roster without gaps
From a two-shift system to fully continuous operation: how to build a shift roster that covers production, complies with Belgian labour law and doesn't collapse at the first sick call.
Scheduling public holidays in healthcare: continuity without overtime spikes
In healthcare, the ward never closes. Yet you still have to compensate ten public holidays a year correctly with paid compensatory rest. Here's how to plan public holidays ahead without your overtime counter derailing in January.
Successive fixed-term contracts: what is allowed in Belgium?
Four contracts, a minimum of three months each, two years maximum: that is how successive fixed-term contracts work in Belgium. Plus the exceptions and a practical approach to keeping your contract administration watertight.
Extras in hospitality: planning the 50-day quota smartly
Extras are the sharpest tool for absorbing peaks in hospitality, but the favourable regime hangs on two counters and a timely Dimona. Here's how to keep the 50-day quota and your 200 employer days under control.
Time tracking when working from home: what must you record?
Homeworkers fall under the same working time rules as your staff on site, but recording those hours works differently. This guide sets out what you really need to log, what you are allowed to check, and how to organise it in practice.
Weekend work in logistics: planning allowances and rest periods correctly
Legally speaking, Saturday and Sunday are two very different things. This guide sets out what is allowed, which compensatory rest you have to grant and where allowances come from — with concrete scheduling examples from the warehouse and on the road.