Jérôme De Ruyver

Jérôme has a very wide experience in all aspects of individual and collective employment law, including individual and collective dismissal law, restructuring, harmonisations, flexible working time and compliance matters such as whistleblowing, EU transparency and the use of GenAI in the work place.

Jérôme also has a specific experience in pensions law and regularly advises sponsoring employers and pension providers in all aspects related to occupational pension plans for employees, self-employed contractors and directors, including but not limited to plan design, derisking methods, restructuring of pension plans in the framework of company transactions and harmonisation, contractual aspects, disputes and claims and regulatory matters.

• Assisted an international financial service company in conducting a highly-sensitive investigation concerning on employee misconduct and discriminatory treatment in the work place.
• Assisted an international chemical and logistics company in the implementation on flexible working time systems in view of facilitating a 24/7 logistics and production chain.
• Assisted a financial services company on all employment and pension aspects following transfer and integration of an accessory business assets and employees, and the subsequent harmonization of employment conditions and pension plans.
• Assisted a multinational company in the transfer and de-risking of DB pension plans following a transfer of business.
• Assisted pension providers in various compliance and regulatory obligations following a transfer of a life insurance portfolio.
• Assisted a pension provider in Belgium on various claims from members and beneficiaries of and pension plans and life insurance portfolios.
• Assisted a multinational media company in takeover of the production, including the employees and allocated staff, of a widely popular tv show in Belgium.
• Assisted a multinational food industry company in the collective dismissal and closure of a Belgian plant.
• Represented numerous clients in a variety of dismissal related legal proceedings.

• Belgian Pensions Lawyers Association - Member