Employment, labour and social security law
The ever-changing regulatory framework governing employment relations and the workplace in Belgium force employers to face unprecedented HR challenges and risk. Our entrepreneurial, innovative, and preventive counselling can help you identify and eliminate potential risks that could be created by mismanagement, non-compliance, disputes, or litigation.
From devising strategies for implementing best practices, organizing and reorganizing your workforce to defending your interests in court, our lawyers will guide you every step of the way. We will help you solve your employment issues and achieve your business objectives.
Our areas of focus in Labour and Social Security Law
- Collective bargaining agreements
- Company rules & regulations, policies, practices
- Compliance mapping, planning, implementation
- Criminal prosecution for labor and employment law offenses
- Cross-border employment (and international mobility)
- Employment collective actions
- Employment contracts
- Government audits, inspections, investigations
- HR consultation and training
- Litigation (individual actions alleging discrimination, harassment, whistleblower retaliation, wage and hour violations;
- Occupational safety & health regulations
- Privacy at work
- Social security law
- Service contracts (and allegations of false self-employment and reclassification of employer–employee relationship)
- Traditional labor relations
- Wage and hour guidance
- Workers’ compensation (disputes regarding statutory sick pay, incapacity benefit, nomenclature of guaranteed income, unemployment allowance, pensions, child benefit)
