Chris Van Olmen

Practice Areas

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.

Career

Chris Van Olmen is founding partner of the law firm Van Olmen & Wynant and head of the employment law practice. He is also co-founder and board-member 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.

Professional Memberships

Chair of the Global Employment Institute of the IBA (International Bar Association) and past Chair of the Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee.

Board Member of the “Association for Social Law”.

Member of EELA (European Employment Lawyers Association) and of the American Bar Association (Labour and Employment Law Section).

Publications

Chris has been a speaker or moderator at numerous national and international seminars and conferences.