Employment Attorney Membership (Education)
Position Summary
Employers Council is seeking an Employment Attorney to join our team. We partner with employers to grow exceptional, dynamic workplaces by offering a comprehensive set of services. The Employment Attorney should have a practical, solution-driven counseling ability with a client service-oriented approach. This includes the capability of multi-tasking and dealing with ambiguity in the law, process & procedure. The attorney should be able to adequately demonstrate a solid understanding of various substantive areas of employment law including, but not limited to, discrimination and harassment, disability and accommodations, employee policies, and wage and hour matters (e.g. Title VII, FMLA, FLSA, ADA, OSHA and related state laws).
For over 85 years, our committed staff have worked at the top of their fields to provide the highest quality guidance to help organizations create cultures that support a highly engaged workforce.
Become a part of making work better for everyone by helping employers build exceptional workplaces!
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Advise and counsel employers regarding multiple and complex legal issues, recognizing and addressing potential risks with situations including performance documentation, discipline, termination, layoffs, employment agreements, waiver and release agreements, non-compete agreements, confidentiality agreements, etc.
- Ability to create and maintain strong relationships with members through regular phone and virtual communication.
- Ability to meet with members in-person to orient and engage them in the benefits of membership, while ensuring member confidence in Employers Council's employment law expertise.
- Demonstrate independence, competence, and confidence when advising management and business leaders on complex employment law matters.
- An ability to understand legal and business priorities and help build consensus among multiple stakeholders (e.g. HR professionals and management teams).
- Evaluate and analyze EEO/ Civil Rights claims, draft position statements and represent employers in state and federal agency proceedings.
- Advise employers on compliance with related or conflicting state and federal laws including wage and hour, Title VII, Americans with Disabilities Act, Family Medical Leave Act, Workers Compensation, and state anti-discrimination statutes.
- Support current member engagement by conducting assessments and strategy/priorities meetings throughout their membership year to bolster member engagement and awareness of fee-based services.
- Manage assigned members work and participate in identifying usage patterns, low utilization of hours, or recent changes to business that could indicate potential opportunities for use of Employers Council services or cancellation of membership.
- Represent employers in administrative hearing processes including unemployment hearings and wage claims.
- Create and update various member resources including white papers, sample policies, agreements, template webinars, and website blog articles.
- Prepare & deliver live and virtual training to organizations in various practice areas including harassment, equal employment opportunity law, termination, wage and hour, FMLA, disability law, performance documentation, etc.
- Prepare multi-media training materials and conduct interactive training classes at Employers Council offices or at member locations on a wide variety of HR related topics via both in-classroom and e-learning methodologies.
- Review employee handbooks, manuals, policies and procedures from a legal perspective.
- Propose and deliver presentations/speeches to community/industry groups on employment law related topics to audiences ranging in size from a handful to a hundred or more.
- Advise organizations concerning employee relations matters, risk management, policies, procedures and employment law and HR issues.
- Strong legal research capability and a solid understanding of Westlaw or other similar research platforms.
- Other duties as assigned.
Work Environment
General office environment with opportunities to work remotely. Occasional lifting. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
Disclaimer: This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with the job.
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Please contact InternalHR@employerscouncil.org.
An Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/vets.
