Employment Legal Counsel

7 days ago

Quezon City, National Capital Region, Philippines Reed Elsevier Full time

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Job Summary:

The individual in this position will provide employment legal support for RELX business units in the Philippines, reporting to and supporting the Asia-Pacific Employment Counsel. This role involves working with the HR and other stakeholders with REPH responsibilities.

Job Accountabilities:

  • Providing legal advice and services by combining skill in employment law with sound business acumen and knowledge of business goals and objectives of RELX and REPH;
  • Working closely with HR regarding the day-to-day issues that arise with respect to individual employees;
  • Assisting with the promotion and enforcement of global policies, including in conjunction with RELX's compliance functions;
  • Ensuring the business is meeting its obligations under anti-sexual harassment legislation;
  • Overseeing internal investigations involving employment-related issues;
  • Conducting training regarding employment law issues, as well as special sessions on an as-needed basis for HR and management;
  • Drafting documents such as employment contracts, settlement agreements, corporate policies, etc.;
  • Attending to employment-related litigation including attending initial hearings at the Department of Labor and Employment, National Labor Relations Commission, courts of justice, and other government adjudication bodies;
  • Overseeing outside counsel with carriage of litigation matters, otherwise supervising and actively directing outside counsel;
  • Working with HR to assist with implementation of corporate employment-related policies;
  • Working with HR to ensure compliance with local laws affecting fundamental employment documentation such as contracts and restrictive covenant agreements.

The person in this role will work with a team of employment lawyers based in other countries.

The Individual:

The successful candidate will have:

  • Good commercial awareness and understanding of the needs of internal clients;
  • Strong organizational and planning skills;
  • Capability to deliver training courses and transfer knowledge to key internal clients;
  • Ability proactively to suggest improvements to processes and ways of working;
  • Excellent and diplomatic communication skills;
  • Ability to advise colleagues at all levels of the business, sensitive to the needs of a broad range of groups;
  • Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team;
  • A high degree of commercial acumen;
  • Excellent written communication skills, and, in particular, strong plain language legal drafting skills;
  • Ability to apply sound judgment in decision-making and convey confidence necessary to establish credibility;
  • Ability to carry out risk assessments and provide related advice;
  • Ability to travel when required, including outside the Philippines.

Personal characteristics:

  • Pragmatic and solutions driven;
  • Flexible and adaptable;
  • Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills;
  • Able to take on responsibility and gain credibility quickly;
  • Strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills;
  • Ability to transform legal issues into a workable solution within a business context.

Job Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree holder;
  • Qualified as a lawyer;
  • Significant expertise in all aspects of Philippine employment laws so that the jobholder can succeed against the requirements noted above from day one. This includes significant experience in: drafting employment documentation (including contracts of employment and internal employment policies); providing day-to-day advice to human resources on employment law issues; overseeing and/or carrying out internal investigations; and conducting employment litigation.
  • The ideal candidate will have exclusively practised as an employment lawyer over the last five years in an employment law team at a major law firm and/or working as employment counsel in-house at a multinational company. Candidates who have not exclusively practised as an employment lawyer but who have had employment law as a majority focus on their practice over this period may also apply.
  • Candidates should specifically highlight their employment law experience in their applications;
  • Must be comfortable facilitating trainings internally;
  • Must have International employment laws experience;
  • Preferably has People management experience;
  • Competitive salary with annual increase and incentive;
  • 24 Paid Time-offs annually, 30 Paid Time-offs in the 5th year;
  • Comprehensive HMO for you and up to 4 Dependents;
  • Day 1 Life and Accident Insurance;
  • Flexible Retirement Plan;
  • Hybrid Work Set up. IT equipment will be provided.

For your convenience, our entire recruitment process is done virtually.

Requirements

Please refer to job description.

Work Location

2nd Floor Building H, UP Ayala Technohub, Commonwealth Ave., Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.

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