Senior Counsel Labor & Employment

5 - 10 years

25 - 30 Lacs

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Role Overview:
Providing legal advice and support on Labour and Employment law issues to GE Aerospace in the covered regions
  • The Senior Counsel will provide legal and compliance advice across a wide range of issues, including, for example:
    • employee and union relations; restructuring, redundancies and outsourcing;
    • equal opportunities and diversity; employment litigation; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures;
    • collective bargaining obligations; employee discipline, performance management, grievances and termination;
    • drafting of employment separation agreements and workplace policies;
    • reviewing and advising on workplace investigations;
    • advising on working time obligations and other minimum statutory benefits.
  • Retain and work effectively with outside counsel where required, and manage external counsel to reduce costs,
  • Secure value-added services and improve make vs buy decisions.
  • Drive simplification initiatives and consistent enterprise standards for Labour and Employment support across the covered regions.
  • Training for the HR and business teams on key employment and compliance risk areas.
  • Keeping abreast of relevant legal developments across the covered regions.
Ideal Candidate
The Ideal candidate will have 5 years plus experience working for a large multinational corporation across the APAC region, and advising stakeholders on both contentious and no contentious issues, with particular focus on the areas set out in the role overview.
Required Qualifications
  • Qualified lawyer licensed to practice in a major jurisdiction within the covered regions.
  • Substantial legal post-qualification labour and employment experience within one of the covered regions, preferably including time spent both with a leading law firm and in-house with a large multinational corporation, that includes:
    • extensive hands-on labour & employment legal experience, including international experience; and
    • substantial experience and success in working with senior management and international environments;
    • experience of labor and employment work on each of M&A activity, litigation, advisory work and training.
  • Superior advocacy skills, including the ability to effectively and efficiently communicate in writing and orally, an aptitude for practical negotiation
  • The capability to think clearly and quickly under pressure, and the composure to satisfy multiple and often competing interests.
  • A strong commitment to integrity and professionalism, and passion for excellence.
  • A work history that affirmatively demonstrates leadership, and ability to persuade and push others to deliver on commitments.
  • Demonstrable fluency in English including ability to draft and negotiate and present legal and business documents in English.
  • Superior negotiating skills and ability to work in complex international environment, substantial experience working in different cultures and an open and tolerant mind with respect to diversity.
  • Demonstrable computer literacy with specific ability to use Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and other software such as redlining tools.
  • Strong project management and prioritization skills
  • Record of dedicated and successful teamwork, excellent interpersonal and diplomatic abilities.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed
  • Strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
  • analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker

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Boston

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