Our Employment team advises companies, executives and HR professionals on the full spectrum of employment and social security law matters.
We provide strategic and practical guidance on both individual and collective employment relationships, with particular expertise in complex and cross-border employment issues. Our team supports businesses at every stage of their development, assisting with restructurings, business transfers, workforce reorganisations and social security compliance.
We have extensive experience managing collective labour procedures and advising on corporate transformations, ensuring that employment-related risks are addressed efficiently and pragmatically.
Our practice combines high-level advisory work with strong litigation capabilities. We represent clients in disputes relating to employment performance, disciplinary matters and termination of employment.
As trusted advisors to HR departments and business leaders, we regularly provide strategic counsel, tailored training and practical support on employment law.
Practice contacts
Johan Kerremans
j.kerremans@janson.be
Team
Brigje Verhasselt
Services
Employment contract law
Workplace well-being and psychosocial risk management
Management companies and employment relationships
Restructurings and reorganisations
Protected employees and employee representative issues
Employment and social security aspects of professional sports
International employment and global mobility
Temporary agency work and flexible workforce arrangements
Supply chain and subcontracting liability
European social security law and cross-border compliance
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
