Vinciane Rysselinck
Senior Counsel, Belgium
With over 20 years of experience, Vinciane Rysselinck is a Senior Counsel in the employment team in Brussels. She is recognised as a ‘very efficient and commercial’ lawyer by Legal 500. She specialises in the labour implications of company takeovers and business downsizings, as well as cross-border employment and social security matters. Her expertise is particularly valued by Belgian, US and Indian clients in the real estate, retail and tech, media and comms sectors.
Vinciane also assists companies with various kinds of labour disputes before the Belgian labour courts, and with senior executive appointments and dismissals. In that regard, she regularly coordinates cross-service and multi-jurisdictional projects.
She was one of the founding team members of Osborne Clarke Belgium in 2013.
Vinciane regularly publishes client insights and newsletters, for example in the Business Immigration newsletter. She also holds regular client training sessions and engages as speaker at employment conferences.
She is a member of the European Employment Lawyers' Association and the Belgian Employment Lawyers' Association.
Work
Belgian public real estate regulated company
Advising a Belgian public real estate regulated company for the appointment of their new CEO
Publishing Company
Advising on all HR aspects of a merger between a major publishing group and a smaller publishing company
Belgian Employment Agency
Advising a major Belgian employment agency in connection with some complex regulatory issues and related litigation
Multinational IT company
Negotiating a collective bargaining agreement on flexible work for a multinational IT company
IT Company Specialised in Biotech Consultancy
Providing day to day advice to an IT company specialized in biotech consultancy
Major IT company
Advising a major IT company in connection with some complex regulatory issues, along with their day-to-day HR issues
Biotech Consultancy Company
Assisting a biotech consultancy company with a formal procedure for moral harassment at work
INPO's in the EU Quarter
Advising INPO's which are based in the EU quarter in Brussels on the employment issues of their operations
Insights
Employment and pensions
Prior to 1 January 2021, the Freedom of Movement provisions meant that there were no restrictions on movement or activities...
14/06/2021
Employment and pensions
Be aware of deadlines that relate to Brexit, and make sure that UK or EEA nationals and their family members...
09/12/2020
Social elections
The implications of the Royal Decree are as follows: The new date of the elections (new Day Y) will automatically...
04/08/2020
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5m
Coronavirus COVID-19
Background Following the coronavirus outbreak, the Belgian government adopted a series of lockdown measures, including the closure of some businesses...
21/04/2020
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10m
Coronavirus COVID-19
The government's plan is to freeze the currently running election process. This would mean that all the steps already undertaken...
19/03/2020
Coronavirus COVID-19
This insight is an update on the additional measures the Belgian government took in the context of the coronavirus on...
17/03/2020
Employment and pensions
In this edition, we focus on the Single Permit being introduced in Belgium as well as the ICT Permit. We...
01/07/2019
Employment and pensions
As you all know, in today's recruiting world understanding what digital transformation brings to HR services is not only is...
27/06/2019
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5m
Social elections
Determining the structures of a TBU is not straightforward. The difficulty lies in the fact that a TBU does not...
17/06/2019
Social elections
It has been possible to enable employees to electronically vote (e-voting) for the social elections since 2012. Enabling e-voting in...
17/06/2019
Social elections
There exists a very large protection against dismissal. This means that the protected employees may only be dismissed in the...
17/06/2019
