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Labor and Employment Counsel The candidate provides legal assistance to corporate attorneys with law-related activities that require a law degree. Provides guidance and support on organizational legal issues. Acts as liaison between company attorneys, outside counsel, organizations and in-house employees. Conducts research, analyzes, and guides managers to ensure compliance with laws and regulations. Gathers evidence to formulate defense or to initiate legal actions. Drafts, reviews, and prepares legal reports and documents, such as briefs, contracts, and other fillings. Handles moderate to complex issues and problems that have a broad impact on the business. May represent company in legal proceedings. Recognized as advanced individual contributor. Subject matter expert with additional experience and/or education in field. Conducts highly complex work critical to the organization. Works without supervision with extensive latitude for independent judgment. May assist less experienced peers. Proactively identify, investigate, and resolve employee relations matters. Develop and implement HR policies, practices, and procedures. Ensure adherence to company policies and compliance with current and pending legal regulations. Handle administrative matters and hearings before federal and state agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, state fair employment practices agencies, and the Department of Labor. Draft position statements and production responses to government agencies. Review and respond to pre-litigation employment and labor claims. Provide responsive and timely legal advice to internal clients, including senior management, human resources and industrial relations professionals, on broad range of U.S. and Canadian labor and employment related matters, including: human resources issues, wage and hour law, labor relations, employee benefits, employment agreements, reduction in force, Title VII, ADA, FMLA, WARN, USERRA, employment-related arbitration and litigation, labor union grievances and mediation, collective bargaining agreements, and employment-related policies. Draft and review employment documents including severance agreements, retention agreements, offer letters, and repayment agreements. Conduct legal research on various topics as directed, will be responsible for keeping abreast of new legal decisions and statutory developments and providing advice to internal clients regarding same. Conduct or manage investigations and compliance audits; develop, implement, and oversee action plans to remedy any compliance deficiencies. Coordinate and drive completion of employment related projects, including internal process reviews, new policy roll-outs and implementation and training programs. Assist the Senior Manager, Ethics & Compliance with various complex and/or sensitive projects, as assigned. Service as trusted advisor to leadership team to develop proactive strategies that address any trends/root causes identified by employee relations metrics. Proactively identify and assess legal risks and opportunities within the labor and employment area and advise the business accordingly. Maintain awareness of legal developments in relevant jurisdictions, provide updates internally, and work to implement necessary changes to policies/practices. Contribute to team handling of administrative matters, including outside counsel cost and invoice management. Effectively manage employment litigation and outside counsel to resolve threatened or outstanding employment litigation matters and to establish best practices for prevention of future matters. Manage and drive strategy on pre-litigation and litigation matters. Prepare and present training on employment and labor issues. As an ambassador of the legal team, establish a rapport and working relationship within Legal Department and with business partners across the company to encourage and continue the proactive use of the legal department. The candidate must have Juris Doctor. Should have 5-7 years of top tier law firm and/or in-house legal experience in the area of employment law. Should be member in good standing of the Virginia State bar or member in good standing of another State Bar and qualified to register as Virginia Corporate Counsel. Experience counseling clients and preparing responses to state and federal administrative charges is required. Experience handling traditional labor issues is preferred.

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