Employment Lawyer

Axiom; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Pension

Remote/Hybrid working

Job summary

Axiom is seeking Employment Lawyers to support clients across industries on complex UK, EMEA, and international employment matters. You will advise on both contentious and non-contentious issues, including investigations, settlements, and restructurings, while collaborating with HR and senior stakeholders.

The role offers remote, onsite, or hybrid options depending on client needs. Qualified UK lawyers with strong UK employment law experience are invited to apply.

Qualifications

• UK-qualified lawyer or equivalent with strong UK employment law experience.
• Experience advising on UK employment matters including investigations, grievances, disciplinary processes and terminations.
• Experience advising corporations, in-house legal teams, HR teams, or senior business stakeholders on complex employment issues.
• Exposure to EMEA or international employment law, cross-border advisory work, TUPE, or related matters.

Responsibilities

• Advise on contentious and non-contentious UK employment law matters across various sectors.
• Support workplace investigations, whistleblowing complaints, misconduct, discrimination, harassment, and complex terminations.
• Collaborate with HR, legal, commercial, procurement, and senior stakeholders on cross-border employment matters.
• Draft, review, and negotiate employment-related documents including contracts, settlement agreements, and TUPE-related docs.

Skills

UK employment law

Employee relations

Workplace investigations

Disciplinary processes

Settlement agreements

Cross-border advisory

Education

UK legal qualification

Job description

We are currently seeking Employment Lawyers to support Axiom clients across a broad range of industries on complex UK, EMEA, and international employment law matters.

Responsibilities:

• Advise on contentious and non-contentious UK employment law matters, including employee relations, performance management, disciplinary processes, grievances, senior exits, redundancies, restructurings, and settlement agreements.
• Support sensitive employment matters, including workplace investigations, whistleblowing complaints, misconduct, discrimination, harassment, bullying, senior employee issues, and complex terminations.
• Partner with HR, legal, commercial, procurement, and senior business stakeholders on EMEA and international employment matters, including cross-border workforce issues, policies, training, change management, and workforce risk.
• Draft, review, and negotiate employment-related documentation, including employment contracts, settlement agreements, senior executive agreements, retention arrangements, transfer documentation, policy documents, contract templates, and TUPE-related documentation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Qualified lawyer eligible to practise in the UK, or equivalent overseas qualification with strong UK employment law experience.
• Experience advising on UK employment law matters, including employee relations, workplace investigations, grievances, disciplinary processes, terminations, redundancies, restructurings, and settlement agreements.
• Experience supporting corporations, in-house legal teams, HR teams, or senior business stakeholders on complex, sensitive, contentious, and non-contentious employment issues.
• Exposure to EMEA or international employment law, cross-border advisory work, TUPE, senior exits, discrimination, harassment, whistleblowing, workforce risk, outsourcing arrangements, or employment-related commercial matters.

Compensation, Benefits & Location:

This role offers a highly competitive compensation and benefits package in the alternative legal services marketplace, that includes health benefits, pension and more. Axiomites also get access to professional development resources and learning and development programs. Axiom provides the opportunity to work remotely, onsite or hybrid, depending on client requirements.

Axiom is the global leader in high-calibre, on-demand legal talent. Covering North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC, we enable legal departments to drive efficiency and growth and meet the demands of today’s business landscape with best in breed alterative legal services.

Axiom is a leader in diversity, inclusion, and social engagement.

Diversity is core to our values and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We are proud to be named a best place to work for LGBTQ+ Equality, earning top marks in the 2021 Corporate Equality Index for the second consecutive year. Axiom’s legal department is Mansfield certified and is committed to considering at least 50% diverse candidates for leadership roles and outside counsel representation.

Learn more about working at Axiom.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Axiom ensures equal employment opportunity in recruitment and employment, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religious creed or belief, political opinion, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, age, disability, alienage or citizenship status, marital (or civil or other partnership recognized by law) status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation, military service, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Axiom prohibits and will not tolerate any such discrimination or harassment.

We understand that many legal professionals have chosen to adopt the consultancy model, and we are happy to discuss this option with you. We offer both consultants and employees the opportunity to work with our enviable client roster.Contact us in complete confidence to find out more about opportunities to work with Axiom as an employee or consultant.

Accommodation for Individuals with Disabilities:

Upon request and consistent with applicable laws, Axiom will provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities who require an accommodation to participate in each stage of the recruitment process. To request an accommodation to complete the application form, please contact us at [e-mail] and include "Applicant Accommodation" in the subject line.

Axiom Global Limited is a company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 11777468 Registered Office: Challoner House, 3rd Floor, 19-21 Clerkenwell Close, London, UK, EC1R 0AA.

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Employment with Axiom may be contingent upon successful completion of a background check, providing proof of identity, and possessing the necessary legal authorization to work.

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