Sylvie Lacombe graduated from the KUL School of Law and has been a member of the Brussels Bar since 1988. She specializes in labour and social security law.Sylvie Lacombe frequently advises Belgian and foreign corporations in the fields of individual and collective labour relations, concentrating mainly on all aspects of the modes of performance and termination of work contracts, as well as on the international relocation of both salaried and independent workers. She also advises businesses on their relations with social security inspectors. Her assistance is given on the counseling and negotiating levels, as well as in litigation.Sylvie Lacombe is a founding member and a director of the VZW Vereniging Sociaal Recht (VSR), and a member of the Association des Juristes Praticiens du Droit Social (AJPDS).In 1991, Sylvie Lacombe was, successively, the prize-winner of the "Pleitwedstrijd der Oud-Stafhouders" plea-contest organized by the Flemish-speaking Brussels Bar, as well as of the International plea-contest in Breda, as the representative of her Bar.