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Sociaal Strafwetboek

Moniteur belge / Belgisch Staatsblad, numac 2010A09589, JUSTEL cn 2010060607 · Belgium · Binding instrument

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A set of 17 working files that organise the obligations of the Sociaal Strafwetboek into open questions a business answers from its own records, with the statutory text carried verbatim beside each duty.

This toolkit concerns the Sociaal Strafwetboek, the Belgian instrument published in the Moniteur belge / Belgisch Staatsblad under numac 2010A09589 and JUSTEL cn 2010060607. It reaches employers of every size, temporary work agencies, businesses that post or detach workers to Belgium, and employers that engage foreign labour. It also reaches businesses active in sectors where working time, night work, health and safety, and recordkeeping are regulated, including construction, logistics, cleaning, hospitality and manufacturing.

The working files walk through the instrument's obligations by subject. They cover access to information and professional secrecy, health and safety at work, working time and night work, public holidays, leave and rest, annual holidays, and the retention and keeping of documents. They also cover employment immigration, the posting of workers, and the transmission of information to the authority.

Each file is a set of open questions a business answers from its own records, with the statutory text carried verbatim beside each duty. The sections are served through a connector inside Claude, and nothing is downloaded and nothing is installed. The documents that come back are dated compliance reports the business keeps in its own file. The toolkit never gives advice and never presents a perspective; it carries what the authority wrote, organised.

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Which businesses fall under the Sociaal Strafwetboek?

The instrument reaches employers established in Belgium, temporary work agencies, businesses that post workers to Belgium, and employers that engage foreign labour. It also reaches businesses whose activities involve working time, night work, health and safety, or the keeping of employment documents. A business answers the open questions from its own records to see which duties apply to its situation.

How are the working files organised?

The 17 working files group the instrument's obligations by subject, such as access to information, professional secrecy, health and safety, working time, public holidays, leave and rest, annual holidays, employment immigration, posting of workers, and transmission to the authority. Each file sets out open questions a business answers from its own records. The statutory wording sits alongside every duty, exactly as the authority set it down.

How does a business reach the toolkit?

The sections are served through a connector inside Claude. The business opens the connector and works through the open questions from its own records. Nothing is downloaded and nothing is installed.

What documents come out of the toolkit?

The documents that come back are dated compliance reports. The business keeps them in its own file. They record the answers the business gave to the open questions, with the statutory text beside each duty.

Does the toolkit cover health and safety obligations?

Yes. Several working files address health and safety at work, including the duties around prevention, documentation and the transmission of information to the authority. The open questions help a business establish what its own records show for each duty. Each duty is shown together with the relevant passage of the law in the authority's own words.

Does the toolkit cover working time and night work?

Yes. The working files address working time, night work, public holidays, leave and rest, and annual holidays. A business answers the open questions from its own records, such as time records and leave schedules. The law's wording is reproduced next to every duty so the business reads the source itself.

Does the toolkit cover posting of workers and employment immigration?

Yes. The working files address the posting of workers to Belgium and employment immigration. They also address the documentation and recordkeeping that accompany those situations. A business answers the open questions from its own records to establish which duties apply.

Does the toolkit cover recordkeeping and retention of documents?

Yes. The working files address the conservation of documents and recordkeeping, including the transmission of information to the authority. The open questions help a business establish what its own records show for each duty. Every duty is paired with the exact passage of the law that creates it.

In what language are the working files written?

The working files are written in Dutch, the language of the instrument. The statutory text is carried verbatim in the instrument's own language. A business answers the open questions from its own records in the same language.

Does the toolkit give legal advice?

The toolkit never gives advice and never presents a perspective; it carries what the authority wrote, organised. A business answers the open questions from its own records, and the dated compliance reports record those answers. The business keeps the reports in its own file.

Source: Moniteur belge / Belgisch Staatsblad (ejustice). Official text, free of copyright under CDE art. XI.172 § 2. Official reference: Moniteur belge / Belgisch Staatsblad, numac 2010A09589, JUSTEL cn 2010060607.

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