+41 21 512 60 80 info@allia.legal

Christian Bettex

Former President of the Vaud Bar Association and FSA specialist in labor law, Christian Bettex has extensive experience in this field. He provides both advice and legal representation. Working as an external legal service or in support of the in-house legal department, he is the point of contact for many SMEs and multinationals on all matters relating to labour law. With his in-depth knowledge of the legal system, Me Bettex is also involved in sensitive criminal and civil proceedings on behalf of institutional, corporate and private clients. He is a founding member of Avocat.e.s pour le climat.

Languages spoken: French, English

Associations: Fédération Suisse des Avocats (FSA), Ordre des avocats vaudois (OAV)

Labor law

Civil and commercial litigation / arbitration

Health law / medical law

Contract law / Commercial law

Criminal law

Family law

Curriculum vitae

 

Professional background

Since 2024

Attorney at Allia SA

2014 - 2023

Partner at Rusconi & Associés

2008 - 2010 

Member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Vaud Bar Association

2006 - 2008 

President of the Vaud Bar Association

2004 - 2008 

Member of the Chamber of Attorneys (Vaud)

2003 - 2018

Member of the Conseil de santé (Vaud)

1998 - 2002

Ad hoc President of the Tribunal d’arrondissement de Lausanne et Vevey

1989 - 2014

Partner of various law firms in Lausanne

1988 - 1999

President of the Tribunal de Prud'hommes de Renens et environs, then of Lausanne

Lecturer in labor law at the CRQP Cours romands pour les questions de personnel (until 2010), in private law at the Swiss Tax Academy (until 2003), in property rights at the Chambre fiduciaire suisse (until 2000).

Educational background

2011

FSA specialization in labor law

1987

Admission to the bar

1986

Doctorate in Law, University of Lausanne

1980

Law degree, University of Lausanne

Board and associative mandates

Since 2021

Founding member of the association Avocat.e.s pour le Climat

Since 2018

Chairman of the Board of Directors of S.I. La Plaisante C. D. SA

Member of the Board of S.I. Grand Air - Bellevue SA

Since 2014

Member of the Board of Directors of Makita SA

2013 - 2021

Member of the Board of Directors of Régie de la Couronne S.A.

Since 2012

Member of the Board of Directors of Fiduciaire Michel Favre SA

Since 2011

Member of the Board of the Fondation Rolf Gaillard pour la recherche en endocrinologie, diabétologie et métabolisme

Since 2006

Chairman of the Board of the Fondation pour des bourses d’études italo-suisses

Since 2002

Member of the Board of the Fondation Alamaya : neuroscience et psychiatrie

Since 1994

Member of the Board of the Fondation pour la recherche dans le domaine de l’immunologie appliquée à la médecine humaine

Publications

  • Désobéir pour la terre, défense de l'état de nécessité, Dominique Bourg et al. (ed.), 2021 (participation)
  • Enquêtes internes, droits du dénoncé, analyse de l'arrêt du Tribunal fédéral 4A_694/2015, in Newsletter de l'Université de Neuchâtel, 2016
  • Whistleblowing - some considerations on whistleblowing and Swiss law, in L'Expert-comptable suisse, 2014 (pp. 492-494)
  • Le cadre légal des enquêtes internes dans les banques et autres grandes entreprises en droit du travail, in SJ 2013 II 157 ss
  • L'application temporelle de l'article 328 CO, in Panorama II en droit du travail, Rémy Wyler (ed.), 2012
  • Conciliation, mediation and arbitration in collective bargaining agreements, in Panorama II en droit du travail, Rémy Wyler (ed.), 2012
  • Petit commentaire du Code pénal, Michel Dupuis et al (eds.), 2012 (co-author)
  • L'avarie commune - étude de la loi sur la navigation sous pavillon suisse, à la lumière des droits français et anglo-saxon, thesis, 1986

Conferences

  • Whistleblowing: state of play (Labor Law Day, Geneva 2019)
  • Presentation of 2015-2016 case law in labor law (Seminar organized by the Association Romande des Spécialistes en droit du travail (AROSDT), 2016)
  • Labor law in evolution - case law, legislative and doctrinal novelties for the years 2013 to 2015 (FSA Congress, 2015)
  • The sports physician and the notion of responsibility (Swiss Congress of Medicine and Sport, 2008)
  • The judicial and extra-judicial expertise process (Seminar organized by the Chambre vaudoise des experts comptables, 2008)
  • Attorney-client privilege (Seminar organized by the OAV-ANV-AAB-AVEC, 2007)

Contact

Allia SA

Rue Centrale 6

P.O. Box

1001 Lausanne

+41 21 512 60 80

info@allia.legal 

Our law firm is located in the center of Lausanne, a few steps away from the Flon and Place St-François.

Allia SA is a member of the international lawyers network Concerto. Our attorneys are admitted to the Vaud Bar.