Christian Bettex

• Doctor of law
  Former President of the Vaud Bar Council
  Specialised in FSA labour law
  
• Fields of law
  • Employment law
  • Contract law/Commercial law
  • Criminal law/(Criminal) Commercial law
  • Medical law
  • Family law
• Professionnal career
  • Member of the Vaud Bar Association
  • Member of the Swiss Bar Association
  • Law degree (University of Lausanne, 1980)
  • Lawyer licence (1987)
  • Specialisation FSA labour law (2011)
  • Member of the Vaud Health Council (2003-2018)
  • Member of the board of Directors at the Michel Favre SA Accounting firm
  • President of the board at Immolangallerie SA
  • Member of the board of directors at the Régie de la Couronne SA
  • Member of the board of directors at Makita SA
  • President of the Foundation for Italian-Swiss scholarships
  • Member of a foundation for research in the field of immunology applied to human medicine
  • Member of the foundation Rolf Gaillard for research in endocrinology, diabetology and metabolism
  • Lecturer at the CRQP classes for personnel issues in labour law (2001-2010)
  • President of the Disciplinary committee of the Vaud Bar Association (2008-2010)
  • Member of the Vaud Chamber of Lawyers (2004-2008)
  • Lecturer at the Swiss Tax Academy (private law) until 2003
  • President of the ad hoc District Tribunal for Lausanne and Vevey (1998-2002)
  • Lecturer at the Swiss Fiduciary Chamber (property law) (until 2002)
  • President of the Prud’hommes tribunal (Rennens and around, and then Lausanne) (1988-2002)
• Languages ​​practiced
  French
  English
  
• Publications
  • Journey of Labour law; Whistleblowing : Situational analysis (Geneva 2019)
  • Presentation of the jurisprudence 2015-2016 in Labour Law, Seminar of the Romand Association of specialists in Labour law (AROSDT) (2016)
  • Internal investigations, law of the accused, analysis of the ATF, 4A_694/2015, published in the University of Neuchâtel University’s Newsletter
  • Labour law in evolution – innovation in the jurisprudence, the legislative and doctrines for the years 2013 to 2015, presentation at the FSA Congress (2015)
  • Whistleblowing – some considerations on Whistleblowing and Swiss law, published in the Expert Comptable (2014)
  • Legal setting of internal investigations in banks and other large firms in labour law, conference at the Société Genevoise de droit et de legislation, published in the Agefi and in the Semaine Judiciaire (2013)
  • The framework of internal investigations in banks and other large companies in employment law, conference given on the 6th of May 2013 at the Société Genevoise de droit et de legislation, published in SJ 2013 II 157 ss.
  • The temporal application of article 328 CO in Panorama II, (2012)
  • Co-author of the Petit Commentaire du Code pénal (2012)
  • Concilliation, mediation and arbitration in the CCT, in Panorama II in labour law (2012)
  • Sport doctors and the notion of responsibility, Swiss Congress of medicine and sport (2008)
  • Professional secrecy: Seminar OAV-ANV-AAB-AVEC (2007)
  • The execution of judiciary and extrajudiciary expertise, Seminar of the Vaud Chamber of Chartered Accountants (2008)
  • Property law, class given at the Swiss fiduciary chamber
  • Doctors’ duty to inform the patient
  • The general average – study of the Swiss law on navigation, in the light of French and Anglo-saxon laws, thesis (1986)