Senior Counsel, European Employment and Labor

Regal Rexnord; Betzdorf; Vor Ort; EUR 80.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A global industrial manufacturer seeks an experienced European Labor Attorney to provide legal support on employment and labor law across its European sites. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in labor law, excellent communication skills, and must be fluent in English and German. This role offers a practical, business-minded approach and opportunities for global exposure.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years’ experience in law firms and corporations.
• Knowledge of collective and individual labor laws.
• Excellent judgment and risk assessment skills.

Aufgaben

• Provide legal counsel on employment law issues.
• Assist HR with compliance on EU laws.
• Draft employment-related documents.

Kenntnisse

Experience in labor law

Fluent in English

Fluent in German

Strong communication skills

Ausbildung

Law degree from a reputable German university

Jobbeschreibung

Scope of role

Looking to make an impact at a growing company guided by strong business values? Regal Rexnord seeks an experienced and practical European labor attorney to join our legal team! Reporting to the VP, Regional General Counsel – EMEA and functionally to the VP, Global Employment and Labor Counsel, the European Employment and Labor Counsel will be responsible for providing pragmatic, business-minded and proactive legal support on all employment and labor law issues across Regal Rexnord’s European sites.

This role is Europe-focused with opportunity for global exposure and experience.

Key Responsibilities

Labor and Employment

• Provide counsel to the Company's global Human Resources Business Partners and other internal business clients on a broad range of European labor and employment law issues spanning the entire employee life cycle; from recruiting to terminations and discipline, performance management, reductions in force, leaves of absence and reasonable accommodations, employment contracts/agreements, works councils, collective agreements, wage and hour considerations, business transformations and restructurings.
• Provide oversight into the investigation of employment-related and labor disputes and claims.
• Review and draft various employment-related documents, including contracts/agreements, settlement agreements, separation and non-competition agreements, demand letters, and responses to the same.
• Provide coaching and guidance to our local European Human Resources Business Partners along with global HR leaders with responsibilities in Europe on EU-wide and local country laws. Ensure European businesses are in compliance with these laws.
• Provide legal partnership on the EU Pay Transparency directive regarding the framework, analysis and counsel needed to achieve and maintain compliance.

General

• Provide solution-oriented legal advice and support to all segments and divisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business objectives and provide timely legal input.
• Identify and assess legal risks associated with business activities and propose risk mitigation strategies.
• Work proactively to prevent legal issues and disputes.

Professional Experience/Qualifications

The successful candidate will have the following:

• 5+ years’ experience, ideally in both a law firm and a corporation
• Working experience with European labor and commercial laws and regulatory framework (with a strong preference for experience in the RRX countries).
• Solid knowledge of German (an ideally other European countries’) collective and individual labor law regulations
• Excellent judgment, discretion, and risk assessment
• Strong coaching, communication and presentation skills; and the ability to establish and maintain effective relationships
• A highly approachable, collegial, and collaborative approach
• Accountable and proactive self-starter, comfortable working independently
• Superb organizational skills and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects at once
• Pragmatic mindset with the ability and willingness to explore solutions across various European legal systems
• Law degree from a reputable German university and admission to practice law in Germany
• Language skills: fluent in English and German and ideally one additional European language

About Regal Rexnord

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.

The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.