# Mid-Level Associate - People and Reward Practice

**Company**: Freshfields
**Location**: Brussels
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Freshfields is looking for an ambitious mid-level associate to join its Brussels’s People and Reward practice.

In this role, you will advise global employers on a range of Belgian and international employment, pensions, benefits and data privacy issues.

**Key Activities:**

- Advising international and domestic clients on a wide range of Belgian and cross-border employment matters;

- Managing and coordinating multi-jurisdictional employment law projects across our global network;

- Transactional work: due diligence exercises, drafting transactional documentation, advising on employment-related issues arising out of corporate transactions (transfer of undertaking, pensions, information and consultation);

- Advising on executive remuneration, senior appointments, departures, and severance packages;

- Structuring and implementing employee stock option plans, equity incentives, and benefit schemes;

- Guiding clients on collective consultations, restructuring projects, and European Works Councils;

- Delivering strategic advice on the modern workplace, including flexible work policies, digitalisation, and internal investigations;

- Handling HR-related data privacy issues, GDPR compliance, and workplace data incidents;

- Actively participating in business development initiatives, client pitches, and know-how development.

**Key Requirements:**

- We are seeking an ambitious and highly motivated lawyer with 2 to 5 years of relevant experience, preferably within the employment practice of a leading law firm.

- In addition to your Belgian law degree (with excellent academic records), a post-graduate degree in employment, labour or social law is an asset.

- You are creative, curious and rigorous, have excellent communication skills and are able to take on a high degree of responsibility and autonomy. You are also proactive and committed to providing an excellent service to clients.

- You have a forward-looking mindset and are comfortable with (or eager to embrace and leverage) modern legal technology and Artificial Intelligence tools to enhance your daily work and client service.

- You are fluent in English and Dutch, with a good command of French.

**What We Offer:**

- The opportunity to work on a wide variety of challenging projects together with our People & Reward partner. You will also closely cooperate with other members of our Global M&A and Capital, Tax, Dispute Resolution, Antitrust and regulatory teams based in Brussels and across other Freshfields offices on multijurisdictional matters.

- Our structured network that allows new legal developments to be shared rapidly among the teams, which is a real added value for our clients and for our lawyers.

- Regular participation in international technical and personal skills trainings taking place in different parts of the world, bringing together lawyers from all around the network.

## Skills

### Required
- Belgian law
- employment law
- labour law
- social law
- English
- Dutch
- French
- data privacy
- GDPR compliance

### Nice to have
- post-graduate degree in employment, labour or social law
- Artificial Intelligence tools
- modern legal technology

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