Brussels

Employment & benefits

We advise a wide range of Belgian and international companies, government agencies and high-profile individuals. We pride ourselves on applying quality legal skills, knowledge and experience, while providing a tailor-made, personal and friendly service.

We are proactive in our approach as we believe that many employment problems can be avoided by swift action in the early stages of an issue. Therefore we always react quickly, while maintaining the high-quality advice you expect.

Employment

Our clients instruct us on a variety of employment matters, ranging from employee relations, redundancies and compromise agreements, to complex discrimination issues, employment tribunal litigation and business transfers, outsourcing and restructuring projects.

We also work closely with them to review and develop staff handbooks and policies that match both their business requirements and their commitment to their employees,
ensuring they are flexible enough to allow for change.

Our core services in employment are:

• drafting contracts and policies
• business reorganisations
• new employee rights: privacy, well-being and discrimination
• day-to-day advice
• employment tribunal litigation

Benefits

In Belgium, employers are under constant pressure to offer their employees the right reward package, while keeping costs under control. When required our tax specialists will help you to design tax and social security efficient salary, benefits and bonus schemes.

Our offering comprises:

• tax and social security optimising of salary and benefits
• designing salary split schemes
• implementing employee benefits: lump-sum reimbursement of costs, vouchers, company cars, new age benefits
• defining participation schemes and stock options plans
• optimising termination