Labour and Employment

We advise and assist clients in all matters touching on Belgian and European labour and employment law.

Notable recent and relevant deals in which we are or have been involved include:

• Assisting an institutional investment company to organize the transfer of personnel from a holding to a bank company bought by our client.
• Assisting a textile manufacturing company in the take-over of personnel from another textile producing company in the framework of a legal reorganization by means of a transfer under authority of the court.
• Advising two large energy companies regarding a collective dismissal in one of their joint venture companies.
• Advising a transport company and a company active in the chemical analysis sector confronted with a decision about changing the competent joint labour committee.
• Advising a major international firm with respect to setting up a whistleblowing  procedure.
• Assisting a major company with the take-over of the personnel of well-known motorway restaurants and negotiation of collective bargaining agreements in order to harmonize the different employment conditions.
• Advising a leading listed IT company about the transfer of a non-strategic business division to a Belgian listed company.

Our Labour and Employment team is at your side. Our lawyers aim to provide clear and practical advice and have the ability to adapt to ever- changing business needs.

We have a particularly favorable ratio of experience, ensuring that our clients get the highest level of expertise to achieve their goals. Our Labour and Employment department is organized to guarantee the quality of our work and our responsiveness.

Our lawyers are fluent in English, French and Dutch. Several of them also speak German, Italian or Spanish.

• Marina ANGELINI, Senior Attorney
• Vincent BUSSCHAERT, Partner
• Amélie DAVID, Junior Associate
• Aimery DE SCHOUTHEETE, Partner
• Paul GEEREBAERT, Partner
• Kay GOYENS, Senior Attorney
• Leen HOLVOET, Senior Attorney
• Chloé STASSART, Junior Associate
• Julie VAN THIENEN, Junior Associate

• Headlines Employment & Labour : The new rules on psychosocial risks at work: modification of internal procedures and work rules required
• Headline Labour & Employment: Unified status: don’t forget to modify your work rules!
• Headline Labour & Employment: Social partners conclude CBA on the motivation of the dismissal
• Headline Labour & Employment: Social security contributions due on most end-of-employment allowances
• Headline Labour & Employment: Council of Ministers approves draft bill on unified employment status
• Headline Labour & Employment: Compromise proposal of the Minister for Labour: a new step towards single employment status
• Headlines Labour & Employment: Listening to sales calls is allowed, but do not forget the work rules
• Tougher position towards the employment of employees who illegally stay in Belgium (part II)
• Headline Labour & Employment: The programme Act reinforces the fight against social security fraud in the frame of intra-community mobility
• Headline Labour & Employment: The new Programme Act
• Sections belges relatives au droit commercial et au droit du travail
• Headline Labour & Employment: The new legislation regarding bogus self-employment in 3 Q&A's
• Headline Labour & Employment: Employment plan for older employees as from 1 January 2013
• Headline Labour & Employment: Introduction of the European blue card for the employment of highly qualified non-EU foreign workers
• Headline Labour & Employment: "Recruitment" - A new possibility to appeal to temporary agency workers
• Headline Labour & Employment: Insourcing can also give rise to "transfer of undertaking"
• Headline Labour & Employment: Legislative initiative to fight the wage gap between men and women
• Headline Labour & Employment: Increased social security contributions on unemployment benefits with an additional company allowance and on other security benefits
• Headline Labour & Employment: Compliance with formalities on part-time work becomes even more important
• Le caractère autolimité de la loi du 13 avril 1995 relative au contrat d’agence commerciale
• Headline Labour & Employment: Supplementary holidays at the beginning or at the resumption of the professional career
• Distinction ouvrier - employé en Belgique: le sort des délais de préavis
• Headline Labour & Employment: New dismissal rules as of 2012: adapt your work rules and standard employment contracts
• Client Memorandum: Indemnity in lieu of notice in case of dismissal during a period of reduced work hours: end of discussion?
• Client Memorandum: New notice periods as from 2012
• La réintégration: mythe ou réalité ?
• Licenciement collectif : questions actuelles issues de la pratique
• De quelques aspects de l’égalité en droit du travail

Seminars

• Vlerick Alumni Seminar (Campus van Vlerick Business School te Gent)
• Labour and Employment Seminar "Eenheidsstatuut" - "Le statut unique"
• Corporate and Finance Seminar in association with Woman on Board
• Labour and Employment Seminar "Niet-discriminatie op het werk" - "Non-discrimination dans le travail"
• Women on Board Seminar "De herstructureringen gezien vanuit de Raad van Bestuur" - "Les restructurations vues du Conseil d'administration"
• Labour and Employment Seminar "Een praktische kijk op ontslag" - "Le licenciement vu de la pratique"
• Insurance Seminar "Assurances et consommateurs" - "Verzekeringen en consumenten"

News

• 11th International Roman Law Moot Court Competition
• Rankings Legal 500 - 2018
• Employment Breakfast Seminar – Dismissal in practice
• Liedekerke welcomes partner Jacques Meunier and Counsel Wim Dedecker within its Corporate & Finance Practice
• Headlines: Employment & Labour : Update of the notice periods in Belgium
• Chambers Europe 2017 rankings
• Headlines Labour and Employment - Long-term incapacity for work: the importance of a reintegration program and the possibility to terminate an employment agreement due to force majeure
• Liedekerke is a proud sponsor of the international conference on policies against Odometer Fraud by Car-Pass
• Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation
• Leen Holvoet to speak at the “Flex Work, International litigation and Assets Transactions” conference
• Liedekerke named Belgian Law Firm of the Year at the Chambers and Partners’ 2016 Europe Awards
• Het debat met Monica De Concink over het eenheidsstatuut: “Er is nog veel werk aan de winkel”
• Webinar Social Media: Labor Law and Privacy Law Issues from a European and Belgian Perspective
• Liedekerke appoints a new Managing Partner and Chairman
• Liedekerke fifth anniversary in London
• Liedekerke wins another distinction at The Lawyer European Awards ceremony in Monaco, October 25th, 2012
• Liedekerke's participation to the Princely mission in Japan - June 2012
• Liedekerke winner at the Chambers Europe Awards 2012
• Liedekerke awarded "Belgian Law Firm of the Year" and "Banking & Fianance Law Firm of the Year" by the Belgian Legal Awards 2012
• Best Benelux Law Firm 2011
• More honors for Liedekerke as Lex Mundi named "Law Firm Network of the Year"
• Best Benelux Law Firm 2010