Alexander de Becker

Alexander De Becker is Professor and Doctor of Laws and obtained his PhD titled ‘Legal foundations of the legal status of public servants’ in 2006. He teaches among other courses ‘Labour Law’, ‘Social Protetion’, ‘The State as Employer’ at the Faculty of Law and Criminology and ‘Labour Law in Health Organisations’ at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Ghent University. His niche covers the legal status  public service employees in a strong comparative law and international context, but he also has a large expertise in administrative law and labour law in general. However, he does research in the larger domain of labour in a comparative perspective. 

Filip Dorssemont

Full professor of Labour Law at the Faculty of Law of the Université catholique de Louvain (in Louvain-La-Neuve). He also is guest professor of European Labour Law at the Free University of Brussels (VUB). He is past president of the Centre interdisciplinaire Droit, Entreprise et Société (Crides at Uclouvain) ) and currently the President of the School of Labour Sciences (Uclouvain). He has recently been elected Co-President of the Association belge de droit du travail et de la sécurité sociale (2020-2022), after serving as President of this association (2014-2016). He is a member of the Transnational Trade Union Rights Expert Network (European Trade Union Institute). Training Dorssemont has read law (Antwerp University, Master in Law 1993), studied philosophy (bachelor Antwerp University 1990, and a Complementary Studies in Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Leuven University, 1994). In 2023 he obtained a Master in History of arts (UCLouvain). In 2001 he defended a PHD thesis in Law at Antwerp University. This research in the field of comparative labour law (B, NL, Fr, Germany) dealt with the Legal status of trade unions in relation to the right to organize.

Yne Machiels

Yne Machiels has been an attorney since September 2012.

She provides advice on all questions that may arise in the context of employment and self-employment, both on a collective and individual level in both the private and public sector, and assists clients in the context of legal proceedings and social inspections. She has special interests in questions related to privacy, international mobility, discrimination, whistleblowers, restructurings and dismissal files and frequently assists foreign companies looking to develop their business in Belgium. 

Yne also regularly speaks at seminars and is a published author on topics including psychosocial risks at work and whistleblowing legislation.

Yne graduated in law with a specialisation in social law from the University of Antwerp (2011 – cum laude). Subsequently, she obtained a degree in social law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2012 – cum laude). She also obtained the degree in pension law at the University of Leuven (2020 - magna cum laude).

Prior to joining Reliance Littler in December 2015, Yne worked as an attorney at the firm Claeys & Engels from 2012 to 2015. Since 2023, she is contributing to the success of Reliance Littler as partner

Matthieu Simon

Matthieu Simon was a lawyer in a firm specializing in labour law. He has been a prosecutor since 2015, specializing in social law and criminal law. He is Belgium's national coordinator for human trafficking. He has been teaching social law at the University of Liège (Business School) since 2018. He regularly publishes scholarly articles.

Matthieu SIMON a été avocat dans un cabinet spécialisé en droit du travail. Il est procureur depuis 2015, spécialisé en droit social et droit pénal. Il est coordinateur national en Belgique pour la traite des êtres humains. Il enseigne le droit du travail à l’Université de Liège (Business School) depuis 2018. Il publie régulièrement des articles de doctrine.