{"$schema":"https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema","title":"Reference letter (Belgium)","description":"A letter of reference a Belgian employer gives to a (former) worker at the worker's request. It is not the certificate of art. 21 of the law of 3 July 1978. It carries the mentions of art. III.25 of the Code of economic law, prints the request sentence only when it is true and invents no strength, grade or reason for leaving.","type":"object","additionalProperties":false,"required":["employer","letter","referee","worker","employment","relationship_summary","endorsement","issued_at_worker_request","signatory"],"properties":{"employer":{"type":"object","additionalProperties":false,"required":["name","enterprise_number","domiciliation","payment_account"],"properties":{"name":{"type":"string","description":"Name or company name of the employer."},"legal_form":{"type":"string","enum":["sole_trader","srl","sa","sc","asbl","other"],"description":"Legal form of the employer."},"enterprise_number":{"type":"string","description":"Belgian enterprise number (KBO/BCE), written 0123.456.789. Code of economic law art. III.25, al. 1.","pattern":"^[01][0-9]{3}\\.[0-9]{3}\\.[0-9]{3}$"},"domiciliation":{"type":"string","description":"Domiciliation of the enterprise: the registered office address (Code of economic law art. III.25, al. 2)."},"payment_account":{"type":"string","description":"IBAN of a payment account the enterprise holds (Code of economic law art. III.25, al. 2)."},"seat_region":{"type":"string","enum":["nl_region","fr_region","brussels","de_region"],"description":"Linguistic region of the operating seat of the employer (Flemish decree of 19 July 1973, decree of the French Community of 30 June 1982, coordinated laws of 18 July 1966, art. 52). Informational: nothing compares it with the language of the document yet."}}},"letter":{"type":"object","additionalProperties":false,"required":["date","place"],"properties":{"date":{"type":"string","format":"date","description":"Date of the letter."},"place":{"type":"string","description":"Place where the letter is drawn up."},"reference":{"type":"string","description":"Reference of the letter, as the employer writes it."}}},"addressee":{"type":"string","description":"Whom the letter is addressed to, as the employer writes it. Left blank, the letter opens with the generic 'to whom it may concern' line."},"referee":{"type":"object","additionalProperties":false,"required":["name","role"],"properties":{"name":{"type":"string","description":"Name of the person giving the reference."},"role":{"type":"string","description":"Function of the referee."},"email":{"type":"string","description":"E-mail address of the referee.","format":"email"},"phone":{"type":"string","description":"Phone number of the referee."}}},"worker":{"type":"object","additionalProperties":false,"required":["name"],"properties":{"name":{"type":"string","description":"Name of the worker or former worker the letter is about."}}},"employment":{"type":"object","additionalProperties":false,"required":["role","start_date","summary_of_duties"],"allOf":[{"if":{"properties":{"still_employed":{"const":false}},"required":["still_employed"]},"then":{"required":["end_date"]}}],"properties":{"role":{"type":"string","description":"Function(s) the worker held."},"start_date":{"type":"string","format":"date","description":"Date the worker started."},"end_date":{"type":"string","format":"date","description":"Date the employment ended."},"still_employed":{"type":"boolean","description":"Whether the worker is still employed. When false, the end date is required."},"summary_of_duties":{"type":"string","description":"Summary of the duties performed."}}},"relationship_summary":{"type":"string","description":"How the referee knows the worker, in the referee's own words."},"strengths":{"type":"array","items":{"type":"object","additionalProperties":false,"required":["area","evidence"],"properties":{"area":{"type":"string","description":"The area of strength."},"evidence":{"type":"string","description":"The facts that show it."}}},"description":"Strengths with the facts behind them. May be empty: a short attestation needs no invented strength.","minItems":0},"notable_achievements":{"type":"array","items":{"type":"string","description":"A notable achievement."},"description":"Notable achievements, one per entry."},"endorsement":{"type":"string","description":"The employer's own sentence of endorsement, printed as typed. Nothing is pre-written."},"issued_at_worker_request":{"type":"boolean","description":"Whether the letter is given at the request of the (former) worker. The request sentence prints only when true."},"further_contact_offer":{"type":"boolean","description":"Whether the referee offers to be contacted. The contact sentence prints only when an e-mail address or a phone number of the referee is given."},"signatory":{"type":"object","additionalProperties":false,"required":["name","role"],"properties":{"name":{"type":"string","description":"Name of the person signing for the employer."},"role":{"type":"string","description":"Function of that person."}}}}}