by Ekrem Duman | Jul 15, 2026 | Expat HR, Expats in Belgium
⚡ TL;DREmploying in Belgium means navigating three regions for work permits, one of the world’s heaviest social-security burdens (employer ~25%, employee uncapped 13.07%), and a dense collective-bargaining system in which your joint committee fixes minimum...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 15, 2026 | Expat HR, Expats in Belgium
⚡ TL;DRA Belgian arrival runs through your commune (municipality) — you register there, a police officer verifies you actually live at your address, and you receive your residence card and national register number, the key to everything. Housing is...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 15, 2026 | Expat HR, Expats in Belgium
⚡ TL;DRBelgian employment law is protective and codified. Since the 2014 Single Status reform, blue- and white-collar workers share unified notice rules: notice on dismissal is calculated in weeks per quarter/year of service, reaching many months for...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 15, 2026 | Expat HR, Expats in Belgium
⚡ TL;DRBelgium taxes heavily: progressive income tax reaching 50% above roughly €48,000 (plus communal surcharges), and among the highest social-security burdens in the world — employees pay 13.07% and employers around 25%. The lever is the new expat...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 15, 2026 | Expat HR, Expats in Belgium
⚡ TL;DRBelgium’s work authorisation is the single permit (combined work and residence), but the critical quirk is that work permits are a regional competence: Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels each run their own rules, salary thresholds and...
