Chris Van Olmen
Europe Guide 2024
Band 2 : Employment
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About
Provided by 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.
Chambers Review
Europe
Chris Van Olmen assists clients with the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements with trade unions. He also represents employees in contentious dismissal cases and has additional expertise in the employment aspects of transactional matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He knows our specificities as a business very well."
"He knows our specificities as a business very well."
Articles, highlights and press releases
1 item provided by Van Olmen & Wynant
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.
