Olivier Rijckaert co-heads our Employment
& Benefits Group in Brussels.
Before joining Field Fisher Waterhouse in 2007, he worked with Bird
& Bird and Allen & Overy, and was a general counsel at
Ericsson Belgium.
He specializes in employment law since 1995.
Olivier advises Belgian and international companies, high
profile individuals and government agencies on all aspects of
individual and collective employment law, contentious and
non-contentious. His practice mainly consists of day-to-day advice,
dismissal scenarios and company restructurings, including
outsourcing and collective redundancies. Olivier also has a broad
experience in "modern workplace issues" including employee
benefits, flexibility of working arrangements, discrimination,
privacy and IP.
Olivier regularly speaks at conferences and is
the author of several legal books and papers. He is frequently
interviewed by the financial and general press on recent
developments in employment law. He is a member of the editorial
committee of "Chroniques de Droit social", Belgium's leading
employment law magazine.
Olivier is also a Surrogate Judge at the
Employment Tribunal of Namur and an Assistant in advanced
employment law at the Free University of Brussels (ULB).