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About:
S&P Global provides governments, businesses, and individuals with market data, expertise, and technology solutions for confident decision-making. Their services span from global energy solutions to sustainable finance solutions. From helping their customers perform investment analysis to guiding them through sustainability and energy transition across supply chains, their solutions help unlock new opportunities and solve challenges.
They are widely sought after by many of the world’s leading organizations to provide credit ratings, competitive benchmarking and data driven analytics in global capital markets, commodity, and automotive markets. Their divisions include S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Commodity Insights, S&P Global Mobility, S&P Dow Jones Indices, and the renowned S&P 500 index. Additionally, their S&P Global Sustainable1 brings sustainability benchmarking, analytics, and evaluations together, to help customers achieve their sustainability goals.
Role:
Assistant General Counsel – Labor & Employment (APAC)
Qualifications:
- Candidate must bring a positive, “can do” attitude to the workplace and works collaboratively with other members of the Legal team and with internal clients
- Significant advisory experience
- LL.B. with exceptional academic credentials
- Successful track record of in-house or similar advisory experience
Responsibilities:
- Serving as the subject matter expert in all areas of APAC labor and employment laws; ensuring compliance with all applicable employment practices laws, rules and regulations.
- Providing strategic legal counsel and risk management advice to management and the People team on a wide variety of employment matters, such as recruiting, compensation, performance management, separations, internal investigations, leaves of absence, discrimination, harassment, diversity and inclusion, workplace privacy, wage and hour compliance, restrictive covenants, reasonable accommodations, employee classification, immigration and general employment risk management.
- Participate in efforts to prepare, implement and refine best-in-class labor- and employment-related practices, policies, guidelines, tools, programs and forms that align with the company’s employee engagement strategy, values and business goals.
- Representing and defending the company as necessary in employment disputes, including lawyer’s letters and administrative charges. Manage outside counsel as necessary for employment litigation.
- Liaising with the Head of Labor & Employment on employment matters in APAC.
- Preparing and conducting regular employee and management trainings on relevant matters, and managing company training programs in conjunction with the People team.
- Monitoring and assessing the impact of legal and regulatory developments and enforcement trends at a country and local level.
- Counseling management and the People team on new or pending legislation, laws, rules and regulations and industry developments and trends that affect the company and its operations.
- Efficiently managing outside counsel with an eye toward minimizing outside counsel expense and meeting budget.
- Review the existing labor compliance framework for each country in APAC & India – identify gaps and actions required. Partner with the People team & compliance partners (if any) to ensure risk free business operations
- Advise the People team on applicable statutory changes &/or implications related to our wellbeing/benefits programs (existing or new)
How to apply:
Interested candidates can Apply here
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