With firms including KPMG, Starbucks, and Twitter mandating an increase in office returns, global workplace creation expert, Unispace, has warned that this approach will be detrimental to employer brands and culture, as well as staff productivity, motivation and creativity, unless the root cause of this reluctance is addressed.

Lawrence Mohiuddine, CEO, EMEA at Unispace commented: “Business leade...

A new study has expanded the discussion on ethical practice in business consulting by reviewing media reporting, interview transcripts and jokes made on the Internet to identify five common ethical transgressions made by consultants.

The research was conducted by Onno Bouwmeester, Professor of Consulting and Business Ethics at Durham University Business School, and Director of VU Knowledge Hub fo...

This briefing is the first in a series by Codified Legal on the key legal issues posed by artificial intelligence.

Much of the current concern surrounding AI centres on large language models or generative AI, such as ChatGPT (sometimes referred to as "weak AI" or "narrow AI"), which is capable of performing tasks to a high level under direction from humans. However, other form...

In our previous article,(1) you could already read that companies are prohibited from committing acts contrary to fair market practices that harm or may harm the professional interests of other companies. The concept of unfair market practices has many applications. In a recently published judgment,(2) the Antwerp Court of Appeal sheds light on what should be understood by the concept of unfair ma...

On May 15, 2022, the law amending the law of April 27, 2018 on the police of the railroads for completely smoke-free platforms was introduced in Belgium. This law makes train stations, including the platforms, smoke-free zones as of January 2023.

In response to this change of law, we hereby provide you with an overview of the places where smoking is prohibited.

● Closed areas that are accessib...

As of June 19, 2021, the (old) Civil Code has a new chapter 'brothers and sisters'. The chapter was placed under Book I 'Persons', Title IX 'Parental authority and foster care' and contains 3 new legal provisions.

The new chapter applies to measures taken within the context of parental authority, foster care and the placement of a minor non-emancipated child in the contex...

Belgian legal interest rates on late payments do not escape the current economic and financial climate either and underwent a substantial increase as from 1 January 2023 both in terms of the ordinary legal interest rate as well as that applicable to trade transactions.

The FOD Finance communicated the legal late payment interest rate, which applicable as from 1 January 2023.(1) You can find the i...

Since the 1st of February 2021, Flemish cities and municipalities can punish limited speeding offences on roads with a speed limit of 30 or 50 km/h with a GAS fine.

A GAS fine is not possible for every speed offence. Such fine can only be imposed if five cumulative conditions are fulfilled:

1. A first condition is that the offence takes place on roads where 30km/h or 50km/h is the speed limit ...

As from 23 November last year, in Flanders, property owners will be required to provide an asbestos certificate to their potential buyers when selling their property.

In principle, this obligation applies to any transfer among living persons regarding a proprietary right - such as any sale or donation - or any establishment or transfer of a right of usufruct, emphyteusis, superficies or a right o...