Services.

  • Non-discrimination

  • Drawing up contracts

  • Special clauses

  • Collective labour agreements & regulations

  • Safety & well-being

  • Conventional transfer

  • Labour law of collective regulation procedures

  • Corporate organized labour coordination

  • Social audit & legal monitoring of a company

  • International labour law

  • Social security institutions

 

Our firm handles all matters relating to both labor law and social security law.  Individual labor law and collective labor relations are the core activities of our Employment practice. Our lawyers also have extensive experience in the cross border dimension of these two complementary fields.

We deal with the restructuring of corporations, whether through conventional transfer or otherwise (i.e. transfers, mergers, divisions and collective layoffs).  Janson’s expertise also relates to social security regulation matters such as proceedings regarding collective regulation and closure of corporations, as well as the occasional bankruptcy of major groups. 

Our lawyers are seasoned litigators with respect to disputes on the performance and termination of employment contracts. 

Janson also manages all legal aspects relating to medicine, hospitals and healthcare professionals. 

It should be noted that we are regularly consulted to give trainings to the Human Resources departments of corporations. 

 Track record.

 

  • Auditing social security regulations for a major Belgian corporation enabling the implementation of their human resources policy

  • Drafting the corporation-level collective labor agreement for numerous corporations across various industries

  • Assisting clients in investigations and visits of social inspection

  • Advising corporations in matters of international labor law, including employee outplacement, work permits, LIMOSA declarations (monitoring of temporary employment) as well as European and international social security

  • Assisting corporations on their organization of dismissals and representing them in disputes related thereto

  • Advising corporations in their dealings with social security institutions and representing them in disputes related thereto

  • Defending hospitals and healthcare professionals risking disciplinary, administrative or criminal sanctioning

  • Assisting corporations in collective dismissals, in particular in the automotive, pharmaceuticals and aviation industries

  • Defending a corporation prosecuted for alleged breaches of social criminal law

  • Defending an employee prosecuted for the alleged theft of confidential data

Academic and scientific work.

 

  • Johan Kerremans is a scientific collaborator of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and of the Universiteit Antwerpen 

  • Johan is also a member of the Social Law Training Council of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel 

  • Johan is a board member of the vzw Vereniging Sociaal Recht, the Alumni Social Recht (ASR-VUB) and the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA)

  • The team has published many books and articles over the past few years, including the following: 

    • “Ondernemingen in moeilijkheden, arbeidsrechtelijke aspecten in het licht van boek XX WER,” in D. Blommaert en J. Derammelaere (ed.), Ondernemingen in moeilijkheden, Antwerpen, Intersentia, 2019

    • “Sociaal statuut van de sportbeoefenaar” (met B. Ameye), Sport en fiscus, Kluwer, 2016

    • “Inzake antikoppelbaasreglementering”, in I. Arteschene and N. Portugaels (ed.) Wet en Duiding: bouwrecht, Gent, Larcier, 2015

    • “Zorginstellingen en arbeidsrecht”, in D. Fornaciari, T. Goffin en S. Tack (ed.) Wet en Duiding: zorginstellingen in diverse taken van het recht, Gent, Larcier, 2013

  • And has given many seminars, including the following: 

    • Entering the US Market : a Belgian employment perspective”, Owin – Texas Technology Mission Virtual Event, 19 October 2020

    • Loon: inhouding, beslag, overdracht en schuldvergelijking, Vereniging voor Sociaal Recht, Arbeidshof Brussel, 7 May 2019

    • Expats in Belgium, Antwerp Summer University Companies crossing borders, 24 August 2017 en 23 August 2018

    • Challenges for labour law when services are provided via a digital platform in The Uberisation of society its economic and legal issues, Janson Baugniet & De Berti Jacchia, Brussel, 30 May 2017