The ever-changing legal landscape reaches every corner of your business and can impact your workforce in complex ways.
Do you need support with employment law?
Supporting your employment law challenges
In the current climate of rapidly changing business needs, employment law remains a key part of the equation: it’s about your people – the essence of your organisation. Companies must deal with the day-to-day employment law challenges they’re confronted with but also be able to quickly transform themselves and their workforce when the need arises. To do so, organisations must design an all-encompassing people strategy that’s aimed at developing their workforce of the future.
Our team of employment law experts excels in turning the complexities of employment law into strategic advantages for your company and is ready to guide you for both specific issues and all-round solutions. To achieve this, our team seamlessly collaborates with the other PwC Legal practices to provide you with the holistic and tailor-made workforce solutions you need to drive your business forward.
Additionally, the PwC Legal Network extends across more than 90 countries, providing the infrastructure to swiftly set up cross-border teams to tackle employment-related challenges with an international character.
How we can help
- Individual and collective labour law
- Transformation
- Deals
- Risk, compliance and investigations
- The future of work
Individual and collective labour law
Our team provides comprehensive day-to-day support in all areas of Belgian individual and collective labour law, including:
Drafting employment agreements, work regulations, company policies and collective bargaining agreements.
Advising on day-to-day matters such as working time, leave, cross-border employment, privacy and dismissals.
Advising on matters related to works councils and committees for prevention and protection at work, as well as negotiating with trade union delegations.
Assisting in resolving employment-related disputes with authorities, following social inspections, or with individual employees, from amicable settlement negotiations to representation before Belgian labour tribunals and courts.
Transformation
Change is inevitable and almost all organisations face restructuring at one point or another. Be it a transfer of undertaking, carve-out, transformation or collective dismissal, our team makes the process smoother by guiding your project from concept to implementation, including:
Conducting project feasibility studies and drafting detailed, step-by-step HR road maps for restructuring.
Drafting all necessary restructuring-related HR documents and agreements.
Assisting with information and consultation obligations and negotiating with employee representative bodies.
Calculating the HR legal impact of any type of restructuring and assisting with post-deal harmonisation.
Deals
Navigating the employment law aspects of mergers, acquisitions and other business transactions requires a strategic approach to ensure compliance, mitigate risks and secure a streamlined transition for all parties involved. Our employment law team brings extensive experience in:
Conducting due diligence efforts from an employment perspective, both buy-side and sell-side.
Drafting and negotiating employment-related provisions in transaction documents.
Coordinating with HR and management teams to facilitate seamless workforce integration.
Advising on information and consultation obligations towards works councils and employee representatives.
Supporting the harmonisation of employment terms and conditions post-transaction.
Risk, compliance and investigations
In a world where workforce dynamics and regulations are constantly evolving, it’s vital that a company carefully manages its workforce risks. Our experts can help you do so by:
- Conducting a full workforce audit to report on your organisation’s level of compliance, followed by an action plan to remedy identified areas of improvement before putting it into effect.
- Assisting you with sensitive workplace inquiries and gathering relevant information to support informed decision-making.
- Providing full-scope guidance during social inspections, including on-site assistance.
The future of work
The future of work presents both opportunities and challenges. Our experts closely follow trends in this sphere to help you create a flexible organisation with a sustainable workforce. We can assist you with:
Designing and implementing new ways of working with special attention to flexibility and employee wellbeing, while respecting social consultation procedures.
Finding optimal solutions for flexibility in terms of workforce, work type, workplace and working time, including devising and deploying an international work-from-home or work-from-anywhere strategy.
Achieving diversity, equity and inclusion within your organisation and reward practices, including by drafting company policies on issues like bullying, discrimination and whistleblowing.
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