Belgium: adoption of a draft bill to combat the phenomenon of the false self-employed

The Council of Ministers held on 7th July approved a draft bill of a framework law related "to the nature of working relationships". This project in included in the governmental agreement dated July 2003, which arose with the purpose of combating the phenomenon of the false self-employed. (Ref. 06711)
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The draft bill of the framework law defines four general criteria for assessing the nature of a working relationship: the will of the parties, freedom to organise one’s own working hours or otherwise, freedom to organise one’s own tasks or otherwise and the possibility of having a hierarchic control or otherwise. Specific criteria can incidentally be enacted in agreement with the sectors and adapted to specific situations when the general criteria are insufficient.

The text confers two missions,

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