Senior Counsel, Labor & Employment
GE Aerospace
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇸🇬 Singapore
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Senior
About the role
- Providing legal advice and support on Labour and Employment law issues to GE Aerospace in the covered regions
- Provide legal and compliance advice across a wide range of issues, including employee and union relations, restructuring, redundancies and outsourcing, equal opportunities and diversity, employment litigation, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, collective bargaining obligations, employee discipline, performance management, grievances and termination, drafting of employment separation agreements and workplace policies
- Reviewing and advising on workplace investigations and minimum statutory benefits
- Retaining and managing outside counsel as required to reduce costs
- Driving simplification initiatives and consistent enterprise standards for Labour and Employment support across the covered regions
- Training HR and business teams on key employment and compliance risk areas
- Keeping abreast of legal developments across the covered regions
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer – licensed to practice in a major jurisdiction within the covered regions
- 5 years plus experience working for a large multinational corporation across the APAC region
- Substantial legal post-qualification labour and employment experience within one of the covered regions
- Extensive “hands-on” labour & employment legal experience, including international experience
- Successful experience working with senior management and international environments
- Experience of labor and employment work on each of M&A activity, litigation, advisory work and training
- Superior advocacy skills, including effective communication in writing and orally
- Strong project management and prioritization skills
- Demonstrable fluency in English including ability to draft and negotiate legal and business documents in English
- Demonstrable computer literacy with specific ability to use Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and other software such as redlining tools.
- Strong interpersonal and diplomatic abilities.
Benefits
- Relocation Assistance Provided
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible working hours
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
labour lawemployment lawemployment litigationcollective bargainingworkplace investigationsemployment separation agreementsperformance managementemployee disciplineM&A activityadvisory work
Soft skills
advocacy skillseffective communicationproject managementprioritization skillsinterpersonal abilitiesdiplomatic abilities
Certifications
licensed lawyer