Inger Verhelst

Inger Verhelst provides clients with day-to-day advice in both individual and collective employment law, and assists them in dismissals, reorganisations, takeovers and negotiations with trade unions. Inger also regularly pleads before the labour courts. She assists clients from a wide range of sectors, including the public sector and education. 

She has a particular interest in discrimination in the workplace and psychosocial wellbeing at work. Inger also regularly advises on privacy and data protection legislation, in particular the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

She also assists clients in conducting internal (disciplinary) investigations.

Inger is a regular speaker at internal and external seminars in Belgium and abroad and has published various legal articles. She is co-author of the annual book ‘Einde loopbaanregelingen’ and the ‘Praktijkboek Ontslag’. Inger is a member of the International Expert Groups on Discrimination and Data Protection within the international alliance of law firms Ius Laboris. She is recommended in Chambers, Legal 500 and Lexology. 

In addition, Inger also acts as a guest lecturer at the Antwerp Management School of the University of Antwerp (special course Master in Human Resources Management) and gives an annual guest lecture to students enrolled in the advanced employment law programme at the University of Antwerp.

In 2016, she pleaded before the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. 

Inger obtained her Master's degree in law from the Catholic University of Leuven in 1994 with distinction and started her career the same year as a lawyer at the Antwerp Bar. Since 2010, she has been a partner at Claeys & Engels.

In 2017, Inger obtained the diploma in the Programme in European Data Protection (GDPR) leading to certified DPO, organised by the Solvay Management School of the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles) in collaboration with the Belgian Data Protection Authority.