Description:
Job Details:General Summary:
Provides advice and counsel to various departments of the company on labor and employment matters and the company's strategic initiatives.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Supervises, manages, and evaluates outside counsel on employment related matters including litigation
- Provide legal advice regarding labor and employment issues to wide variety of corporate departments, stores, distribution centers and other functional groups
- Review and draft company policies and handbooks to ensure compliance with federal and state labor and employment laws.
- Represent the Company in labor and employment matters filed with state and federal agencies, including preparation and review of Company responses to charges and complaints of discrimination.
- Assist in developing, preparing and providing training regarding labor and employment practices.
Qualifications:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Previous labor/employment and litigation management experience.
- Ability to analyze complex situations, and to deliver sound, practical legal advice.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; excellent negotiating skills.
- Independently handles employment matters and project ranging from basic to complex
- Strong leadership skills with which to build consensus and persuasively overcome obstacles.
- Familiarity with state and federal employment laws including FMLA, FLSA, OSHA, ADA, ERISA and other relevant statutes.
- Juris Doctor degree from accredited law school; member of a state bar.
- Three to five years specific employment law experience required.
- Law firm experience preferred.