Description:
Position Summary:Corporate Counsel of Labor & Employment will report to the Associate General Counsel (AGC) and has primary responsibility for all legal matters relating to labor, employment, benefits, immigration, and workplace safety laws.
Essential Functions:
- Advise company on day-to-day employment law issues to ensure company complies with various labor, employment, benefits, immigration, and workplace.
- safety laws (including NLRA, Title VII, Section 1981, FMLA, ADA, AADEA, ERISA, and OSHA).
- Advise company on medical leave issues and workers' compensation matters.
- Advise company on termination of employment matters, including advising company of legal risks.
- Advise HR on handling unemployment compensation claims.
- Assist the company with drafting various employment policies and procedures.
- Work with other Team Members of Legal & Compliance to conduct investigations, audits, and training in the areas of labor, employment, benefits,
- immigration, and workplace safety laws.
- Research legal issues relating to labor, employment, benefits, immigration, and workplace safety laws.
- Track and report any developments in labor, employment, benefits, immigration, and workplace safety laws.
- Handle a variety of litigation, arbitration, and mediation matters for the company (with emphasis on employment litigation and workers' compensation cases).
- Oversee handling of garnishments, services of process, and subpoena responses. Coordinates with other Legal & Compliance Team Members to
- accomplish departmental objectives.
- Always display exemplary ethical behavior, including: (1) being free of undue influence and conflicts of interest; (2) strictly complying with HMMA policies and procedures; (3) being honest, transparent, and accountable; (4) report all known illegal or unethical behavior; and (5) protecting confidential information.
- Administer, coordinate, and comply with all Business Management System (BMS), Environmental Management System (EMS), and Safety Management
- System (SMS) requirements.
- Perform all other duties as assigned by the Associate General Counsel or General Counsel.
Position Requirements:
Education:
- Juris Doctor Degree from an ABA.
- Accredited Law School required.
Related Experience:
- 6+ years of job-related experience
- preferred, concentrating in labor
- and employment law, preferably in
- a law firm environment
- representing and counseling
- employers.
- MS Word
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- LexisNexis / Westlaw
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Member in Good Standing of the
- Alabama State Bar (Attorney or
- Authorized House Counsel)