Junior Employment Lawyer in UK

Our customer, a British multinational bank is looking for a Junior Employment Lawyer.

Job Summary

• To advise on and manage employment law matters arising for the Bank in the UK and Europe and to help mitigate reputational, financial, and regulatory-related risks arising from people issues.
• To support Group-wide projects which have an employment law element.

Responsibilities

Litigation/disputes

• Advising on and managing employment litigation/disputes in the UK and Europe
• Liasing with external legal counsel regarding the strategic approach to employment law disputes, critically assessing advice received and tailoring this to the business/organisation
• Co-ordinating disclosure process during employment litigation, liaising with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that disclosure obligations are complied with witness statement aspect of employment litigation, ensuring statements are tailored to the business/organisation
• Collaborating with the corporate communications team to manage reputational risk
• Identifying and analysing opportunities for settlement and advising Human Resources (HR), Employee Relations (ER) and/or business stakeholders on settlement strategy
• Preparing and negotiating settlement terms

Advisory

• Advising on and managing employment issues in the UK and Europe, including investigations, accountability reviews, material disciplinary and grievance matters, performance management, redundancies, restructures and contentious exits
• Managing relevant stakeholders and providing accurate and timely updates regarding the status of disputes or issues
• Advice and best practice guidance on regulatory issues affecting staff, particularly relating to remuneration and assisting with drafting and/or reviewing of contentious regulated references
• Reviewing and advising on the scope of Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) and reviewing any red flag/noteworthy documents in cases where the data subject is also involved in an employment dispute.
• Advising on employment law aspects of HR policy or strategy projects, and co-ordinating advice from other members of the Employment Law team or external counsel
• Advising on and participating in consultation on internal policies and procedures
• Advising on Group-wide diversity and inclusion initiatives and/or comms
• Supporting the HR/ER team and other relevant stakeholders through legal and best practice updates
• Occasional support for M&A integration, including advice on staff consultation obligations and restructuring and/or TUPE provisions

Qualifications

• University degree in law or other university degree plus GDL conversion from an accredited law school
• UK Solicitor’s Regulation Authority practising certificate
• Ideally at least 3+ years PQE experience

Experience in:

• Employment litigation
• Drafting and advising on employment contracts and policies
• Advising on employee relations issues such as disciplinaries, grievances, redundancy/restructure and termination of employment
• Employee data privacy issues and data subject access requests (preferred)
• Regulatory issues affecting staff, particularly remuneration (preferred)

About Elevate

Elevate provides consulting, technology and services to law departments and law firms across the globe. Headquartered in Los Angeles, our 1,600+ strong team of legal professionals, lawyers, consultants, project managers, and engineers operate across the United States, Europe, UK, and Asia, Hong Kong and Australia.

ElevateFlex , is the flexible resourcing capability within Elevate, we define and support a new flexible career within the legal industry. We match exceptional legal professionals to the evolving needs of our Customers through the curation of a world-class, global Community of Talent, and advanced, technology-enabled search. We were recently proud to be assessed in Band 1 of Chamber’s Global Flexible Legal Resourcing category.

Our Vision is a world where legal and business teams achieve incredible outcomes together.

Equitability and Inclusion are critical to ElevateFlex’s success. As The Law Company, changing the legal business landscape, we know a diverse, inclusive work culture is at the heart of attracting, retaining, and celebrating the industry’s most talented people. We empower our employees to bring their whole selves to work because we know that diversity of experience and perspective drive innovation and is simply good business.

As a strong proponent of diversity, equitability, and inclusion, ElevateFlex is committed to hiring diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

We invite you to apply to become part of the ElevateFlex Team – help us change the legal business landscape and make a dent in the legal universe.