Life sciences expert and employment litigation specialist Catherine Longeval leads the team at Van Bael & Bellis, which focuses particularly on handling individual and collective dismissals in the context of restructuring projects and on representing its clients in sensitive harassment-related termination cases as well as in union negotiations around redundancies. Sara Beutels is a further key contact in the team and advises clients on a growing volume of pensions-related matters.
Testimonials
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‘The Van Bael & Bellis employment team is agile and very responsive. You can feel their culture is to help you to get what you need in the most efficient way.’
‘Sara Beutels is very responsive and easily understands client needs and problems. She works efficiently and pragmatically towards solving them. With Sara, it very much feels like a no-nonsense approach, you get exactly what you need.’
Key clients
- Bidvest
- Bidfood
Work highlights
- Assisted Nisha Metallizing Solutions, a manufacturer of metallised packaging and labelling solutions, with a broad range of employment issues, including collective labour agreements, disciplinary sanction proceedings, and several day-to-day HR matters.
- Assisted EPAM with a wide variety of employment law work, including the harmonisation of several employment conditions/benefits for different Belgian entities following the acquisition of the Emakina group, the harmonisation and amendment of several sets of work rules and employee policies, and the implementation of digital payroll documents.