Employment law

Our employment law department covers all aspects related to employment law and personnel management: individual and collective labour law, national and international social security, social benefits, social criminal law, civil service law.

We provide assistance, preventively or in case of dispute, to any private or public-sector employer or employee :

• Personnel management
• HR Audit and drafting all the related documents (self-employed or employment contracts, amendments, work rules and policies (car, internet, emails, ...)
• Pay, benefits and optimisation
• Well-being at work, violence and sexual or psychological harassment at work, psychosocial risks, discrimination
• Working time, flexible time, overtime and bonuses
• International mobility, work abroad, foreign workers in Belgium (posting of workers, expats, workers working concurrently on the territory of several Member States, work permits, access to the profession, salary split, ...)
• Changes in working conditions and severance pay
• Termination of work (dismissal, resignation, termination by mutual agreement, period of notice, administrative decisions and letters, prior hearing, procedure, draft agreements, ...)
• Reason for termination (unreasonable dismissal, unfair dismissal)
• Social documents (certificate of unemployment…)
• Change in employment ; end-of-career workers
• Social elections and protected workers (Works Council, the Health and Safety at Work Committee, trade union representatives)
• Mergers, business transfers, corporate restructuring, collective dismissal
• Employers’ and workers’ obligations; civil and criminal liability
• Civil or criminal disputes with social authorities (NSSO, NISSE, FPS) or inspection services
• Social status (employee ; self-employed)
• Social security contributions by self-employed persons (disputes with social insurance funds, joint and several liability of employing companies, …)
• Accidents at work and occupational diseases
• Social assistance
• Statutory and supplementary pensions
• Sickness and invalidity insurance