Associate Employment Counsel
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 3 years of attorney-level experience in government, in-house, or at a law firm
- Poland qualified employment lawyer or equivalent practical experience
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in advising multinational corporations on employment law in private practice and in-house
- Experience managing employment law issues outside of Poland in wider EMEA
- Knowledge of employment law
About the job
Our Legal team needs more than attorneys to keep things moving. Our Legal Operations team is charged with improving and maintaining the Legal team's internal processes, systems and tools. Responsible for tracking objectives, coordinating financial planning and solving technology challenges, you are entrepreneurial, proactive and highly organized. You keep costs down, engage third-party vendors and make the Legal team's services better, faster and more efficient.
20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.
Responsibilities
- Advise all levels of management and HR teams on regional employment-related legal issues including hiring, disciplinary actions, reorganizations, terminations, working time, leaves, accommodations, complex performance management cases, employee representation and collective matters, diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, contingent workforce issues, and litigation.
- Draft employment guidelines, agreements and policies, and create procedures and process efficiencies.
- Advise on legal compliance projects with HR, identifying risks and helping to drive projects to completion.
- Advise on compensation programs, employee benefits, contingent workforce issues, diversity programs, and HR-related mergers and acquisitions.
- Advise on employment legal aspects of commercial agreements and mergers and acquisitions, including integration planning and employee transition arrangements.
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