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Remunerating talent, negotiating a fair and motivating salary package, setting terms of employment that help employees develop their talents and contribute to your organisation’s success. As an HR professional, those are some of the many challenges you are faced with. You are in charge of the correct administrative follow-up of HR-related issues, of enforcing compliance with social-legal regulations and of advising employees on social-legal issues. Acerta’s legal team can help you with practical advice and proactive information initiatives.
Transparent information
Acerta Legal Consult lawyers are specialised in national and international employment law. They provide expert advice on overseas employment issues and offer legal support with foreign staff in your Belgian office. You can also rely on Acerta for advice on questions related to staff taxation or company managers’ social statutes. Acerta Legal Consult consultants work closely with our Acerta Social Secretariat staff to provide clear and practical answers to all your questions.
Acerta offers various legal publications with proactive information on the latest in legislation:
- Sociale gids®: This reference guide is a comprehensive publication on social legislation. You receive quarterly updates that can be easily added to this loose-leaf publication.
- Trefzeker®: This online database provides useful information on social legislation, employment law and sectoral news on collective labour agreements. You also have access to a convenient calculation tool for salary simulations or notice periods.
- Baremawijzer®: This internet application allows you to consult the latest figures and salary rates of the Joint Committees and to find information on job ranking, annual bonuses and reimbursement for commuters.
- Sociale Wegwijzer: This biweekly magazine provides a comprehensive overview of new legislation and legal guidelines that employers have to comply with.
Effective consultations and negotiations
Our social-law experts can help you with the preparation and assistance of all your consultation activities. This includes negotiations on sectoral agreements, implementation of new employment legislation or specific staff agreements such as personal Internet use at the workplace. Acerta works closely with you to identify legal regulations and to determine how you can rapidly implement changes in your organisation.
You can rely also rely on our experts to guide you during negotiations and to keep them progressing constructively. Our top-priority objective for negotiations is to achieve correct, transparent and attainable agreements. After defining the new agreement content, Acerta ensures it is presented in the applicable legal format (collective labour agreement, terms of employment, etc.). During the final stage, we can help to put the agreements into practice. This implies that we attend, among other things, to communicating new agreements transparently to your staff and help to develop the necessary structures and processes.
