Court of labour (Belgium)

Belgium's courts of labour, the arbeidshof in Dutch, the cour du travail in French and the Arbeitsgerichtshof in German, are appellate courts that hear appeals from the labour tribunals and their presidents, sitting apart from Belgium's ordinary appellate courts across five judicial areas: Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Liege and Mons. Their organization and procedure are set out in the Belgian Judicial Code, and the language of proceedings is fixed by area: Dutch in Antwerp and Ghent, Dutch and French in Brussels, French in Mons, and French and German in Liege. Cases are judged by career magistrates called counsellors, appointed for life, sitting with lay social counsellors drawn from labour, employment and business backgrounds and appointed for five year terms by the federal government on the advice of employers' organizations and trade unions; a panel typically has one counsellor and two to four social counsellors depending on the case. Decisions can be appealed on points of law, though not fact, to Belgium's Court of Cassation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/