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Provided by Chris Van Olmen
Chris covers all aspects of employment and industrial relations, including employment-related issues connected to reorganisation and restructuring processes, collective dismissals and closures and individual and collective employment disputes, including litigation for the Belgian Labour Courts. His clients include national and international companies and top executives.
Chris Van Olmen is co-founder of the law firm Van Olmen & Wynant and head of the employment law practice. He is also co-founder and managing partner of L&E Global, an integrated alliance of premier employment law boutique firms.
Since 1999 he has been lecturing on social law in the traineeship programme organised by the Brussels Bar. He also served as a member of the Brussels Bar Council and is Board Member of the “Association for Social Law”.
Chris Van Olmen is past Chair of the Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee and past Chair of the Global Employment Institute of the IBA (International Bar Association). He currently is a member of the Advisory Board of the IBA GEI.
Chris is also a member of EELA (European Employment Lawyers Association) and of the American Bar Association (Labour and Employment Law Section).
His recent publications include: "International Labour and Employment Compliance Handbook" (Wolters Kluwer 205); the Belgian Chapter in "Employment Law Review” (Law Business Research 2023); “The On Demand Economy”, Report of the IBA Global Employment Institute, 2019; "Le lien de subordination à l’épreuve de l’ubérisation de l’économie ?", Wolters Kluwer / Chr. D.S. – Soc. Kron., 2016, 07.
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Chris Van Olmen is a really business-minded lawyer.
His knowledge of employment law is very high.
Chris Van Olmen is a really business-minded lawyer.
His knowledge of employment law is very high.
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Belgium: Temporary unemployment for lack of childcare to replace corona parental leave
Parents of children whose school has to close down due to the coronavirus are entitled to temporary unemployment benefits, in order to take care for their children.
Belgium: Temporary unemployment for lack of childcare to replace corona parental leave
Parents of children whose school has to close down due to the coronavirus are entitled to temporary unemployment benefits, in order to take care for their children.