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Associate General Counsel - Labor & Employment, Day Shift, Legal Risk Management
Adventist HealthCareSupport Center, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Oct 2024
💰 $232,049/yr($154,699/yr – $232,049/yr)
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As an Associate General Counsel, you will:
• Provide legal counsel on employment law issues including hiring, termination, workplace policies, discrimination, harassment, wage and hour laws, and employee benefits.
• Advises management on labor relations approaches/strategies, and collective bargaining processes. Provides guidance and assistance with labor and employee relations matters (including grievances, legal claims, and administrative complaints), dispute resolution, and employee discipline.
• May be asked to support various phases of collective-bargaining negotiations; including conducting financial analyses, drafting proposals, identifying and preparing for collective-bargaining and developing negotiations strategy.
• Advises and counsels Senior leadership, Human Resources, and Management on all Labor and Employee relations related activities including discipline and discharge, grievance processing, performance management, reductions in force (RIFs), work stoppages, restructuring, etc. to minimize risk to the company. Advises Senior leadership,
• Human Resources, and Management and Human Resources on risk mitigation and dispute resolution. Prepares legal documents including employment, separation, restrictive covenants, and other HR-related agreements.
• Supervises, directs, and manages outside counsel ensuring timely, efficient, and cost effective, responsible, and efficient handling of all matters. Supervises and directs the processing of matters before state and federal administrative agencies, including the NLRB, FMCS, OFCCP, DOL Wage and Hour Division, EEOC, state and local human rights agencies, as well as in mediations and arbitrations, and any claims under the union grievance procedure.
• Oversee thorough, high-quality, and timely internal investigations and consistently demonstrate appropriate confidentiality, integrity, and sensitivity in handling all labor and employee relations-related investigations. Review/revise investigative reports and articulate findings to respective stakeholders and review committees. Design root cause analyses and corrective action plans, processes, and procedures in response to identified issues.
• Develops and delivers highly specialized labor and employee relations education and awareness programs for all management levels; conducts vulnerability assessments to identify and remedy opportunities for workplace environment improvement. Plans and directs training programs on labor relations, CBA administration, labor law compliance, consent order compliance, management-employee relations, leadership, and professional development.
• Build and maintain effective, collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders, management, Human Resources professionals, and Union officials, and represent the organization at industry and community events.
• Continuously build upon knowledge and understanding of labor and employee relations laws, policies, and best practices. Identify case trends to proactively develop strategies, programs, and tools aimed at identified areas for improvement to drive compliance and effective labor-management relations and employee relations.
• Attend at least two professional conferences annually.
Qualifications include:
• Expert knowledge of traditional labor law, knowledge of NLRB practice and procedures; Detailed knowledge of federal and local laws applicable to labor and employment, and judicial and administrative agency systems and procedures. Labor and employment litigation and trial experience.
• Ability to collaborate, build relationships, gain credibility, and partner effectively.
• Demonstrated experience in collective-bargaining agreement administration and providing legal advice in a highly regulated environment, including grievance procedures and grievance arbitration processes and procedures.
• Demonstrated experience providing legal advice in a highly regulated environment.
• Ability to set and meet multiple priorities, initiative to take on new challenges and high energy to partner with diverse teams in a fast-paced work environment
• Significant L&E experience in-house at a company, at a law firm or in a government agency with an established labor and employment practice.
• Sound business judgment and financial acumen, including budgeting
• Aptitude fo
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Adventist Healthcare seeks to hire an experienced Associate General Counsel for Labor and Employment who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental, and spiritual healing.
As an Associate General Counsel, you will:
• Provide legal counsel on employment law issues including hiring, termination, workplace policies, discrimination, harassment, wage and hour laws, and employee benefits.
• Advises management on labor relations approaches/strategies, and collective bargaining processes. Provides guidance and assistance with labor and employee relations matters (including grievances, legal claims, and administrative complaints), dispute resolution, and employee discipline.
• May be asked to support various phases of collective-bargaining negotiations; including conducting financial analyses, drafting proposals, identifying and preparing for collective-bargaining and developing negotiations strategy.
• Advises and counsels Senior leadership, Human Resources, and Management on all Labor and Employee relations related activities including discipline and discharge, grievance processing, performance management, reductions in force (RIFs), work stoppages, restructuring, etc. to minimize risk to the company. Advises Senior leadership,
• Human Resources, and Management and Human Resources on risk mitigation and dispute resolution. Prepares legal documents including employment, separation, restrictive covenants, and other HR-related agreements.
• Supervises, directs, and manages outside counsel ensuring timely, efficient, and cost effective, responsible, and efficient handling of all matters. Supervises and directs the processing of matters before state and federal administrative agencies, including the NLRB, FMCS, OFCCP, DOL Wage and Hour Division, EEOC, state and local human rights agencies, as well as in mediations and arbitrations, and any claims under the union grievance procedure.
• Oversee thorough, high-quality, and timely internal investigations and consistently demonstrate appropriate confidentiality, integrity, and sensitivity in handling all labor and employee relations-related investigations. Review/revise investigative reports and articulate findings to respective stakeholders and review committees. Design root cause analyses and corrective action plans, processes, and procedures in response to identified issues.
• Develops and delivers highly specialized labor and employee relations education and awareness programs for all management levels; conducts vulnerability assessments to identify and remedy opportunities for workplace environment improvement. Plans and directs training programs on labor relations, CBA administration, labor law compliance, consent order compliance, management-employee relations, leadership, and professional development.
• Build and maintain effective, collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders, management, Human Resources professionals, and Union officials, and represent the organization at industry and community events.
• Continuously build upon knowledge and understanding of labor and employee relations laws, policies, and best practices. Identify case trends to proactively develop strategies, programs, and tools aimed at identified areas for improvement to drive compliance and effective labor-management relations and employee relations.
• Attend at least two professional conferences annually.
Qualifications include:
• Expert knowledge of traditional labor law, knowledge of NLRB practice and procedures; Detailed knowledge of federal and local laws applicable to labor and employment, and judicial and administrative agency systems and procedures. Labor and employment litigation and trial experience.
• Ability to collaborate, build relationships, gain credibility, and partner effectively.
• Demonstrated experience in collective-bargaining agreement administration and providing legal advice in a highly regulated environment, including grievance procedures and grievance arbitration processes and procedures.
• Demonstrated experience providing legal advice in a highly regulated environment.
• Ability to set and meet multiple priorities, initiative to take on new challenges and high energy to partner with diverse teams in a fast-paced work environment
• Significant L&E experience in-house at a company, at a law firm or in a government agency with an established labor and employment practice.
• Sound business judgment and financial acumen, including budgeting
• Aptitude fo
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