Chris Van Olmen

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Partner
Employment Law

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.

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.

Chris has been a speaker or moderator at numerous national and international seminars and conferences. His recent publications include: “International Labour and Employment Compliance Handbook” (Wolters Kluwer 2020); the Belgian Chapter in “Employment Law Review” (Law Business Research 2021); “The On Demand Economy”, Report of the IBA Global Employment Institute, 2019; “Le lien de subordination à l’épreuve de l’ubérisation de l’économie ?”, Wolters Kluwer / Chr. D.S. – Soc. Kron., 2016, 07; “De ‘Uberisatie’ van het Belgisch arbeidsrecht”, IJE 2016.

Chris is listed as a leading individual in The Legal 500 (2021), in Chambers Europe (2021), in The International Who’s Who of Management Labour & Employment Lawyers (2020) and in Best Lawyers (2021). The Legal 500 includes Chris in its “Hall of Fame” (2021). Who’s Who Legal mentions Chris as a “Thought Leader” in their WWL Thought Leaders Labour & Employment (2020).

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 and is Board Member of the “Association for Social Law”.

Chris Van Olmen is past Chair of the Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee and is now Vice-President of the Global Employment Institute of the IBA (International Bar Association).

Chris is also a member of EELA (European Employment Lawyers Association) and of the American Bar Association (Labour and Employment Law Section).

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