Associate Legal Counsel

1 week ago

Makati City, National Capital Region, Philippines D.M. CONSUNJI, INC. (DMCI) Full time ₱900,000 - ₱1,200,000 per year

Responsible for providing guidance on a variety of labor and employment issues that arise from day-to-day operations of the company.

Responsibilities

  • Handles labor and employment cases, and whenever necessary, civil and criminal issues, including managing legal costs to ensure effective use of resources.
  • Provides guidance / renders legal opinion to the Company regarding employment and human resources issues, and labor matters including policies and procedures.
  • Supervises or oversees the conduct of administrative cases or complaints relative to the violations of company policy or related issues to be conducted / facilitated by the MOCOD and PCOD.
  • Drafts policies and company procedures.
  • Represents the company on legal issues/concerns before the Courts and quasi-judicial government agencies, and other regulatory agencies.
  • Maintains professional and technical knowledge and keeping abreast on legal and labor and employment issues.
  • Advises business units on employment compliance and risk management in order to accomplish business objectives without undue risk.
  • Liaises with the Company's Corporate Compliance Officer on legal matters arising from labor and employment related contracts and policies.
  • Provides the Company, particularly top and middle management, of legal updates and labor and employment advisories that can possibly impact the company's operations and compliance with requirements.
  • Keeps Management abreast of significant labor and employment related decisions, legislations and regulatory rulings that may affect the Company's business or policy.
  • Drafts, reviews, analyzes and negotiates employment and construction (labor) related agreements including consulting, severance, incentive, noncompetition and confidentiality agreements among others (target is for contracts and legal documents to be 100% compliant with the existing laws and policies).
  • Provides training to everyone, particularly those deployed in the project, on topics regarding labor and employment and other legal issues that they normally encounter in their day-to-day operations.
  • Coaches and guides subordinate towards the achievement of their fullest potentials.
  • Ensures that subordinates behave in a highly professional manner.
  • Attends all available developmental courses being offered by the company to ensure his professional development and enhancement.
  • Develops a thorough understanding and familiarity with the Company's business, its people, markets, facilities, customers and competitors in order to identify trends and formulate appropriate structures and strategies.
  • Ensures that case trackers and monitors, in coordination with the paralegal / legal assistant, are accurate and updated.
  • Gathers all important and critical data in all the previous cases lodged against the company.
  • Analyses these data in coordination with the Legal Counsel for Labor-Legal, to establish trends, projections and historical data that can be used to ensure that the interest of the company will be safeguarded.

Qualifications

  • Education: Graduate of Bachelor of Laws from any reputable Law School and must have passed the Philippine Bar.
  • Experience: Must have an experience for at least 2-3 years in Labor and employment works and litigation, as well as corporate-related works.
  • License Required: Philippine Bar Pass.

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