Employment Lawyer

Overview

An organization is seeking an Employment Lawyer to support clients across a broad range of industries with complex UK, EMEA, and international employment law matters. This role involves providing practical, commercially focused legal advice on both contentious and non-contentious UK employment law issues, including employee relations, workplace investigations, senior exits, settlement agreements, TUPE, redundancy, and restructuring. The position also supports EMEA and global employment projects in collaboration with HR, legal, commercial, procurement, and senior business stakeholders across leading global organizations.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice and support on UK employment law matters such as employee relations, performance management, disciplinary processes, grievances, senior exits, redundancies, restructurings, settlement agreements, and day-to-day HR advisory issues.
• Advise on sensitive and high-profile employment matters including workplace investigations, whistleblowing complaints, misconduct, discrimination, harassment, bullying, senior employee issues, and complex terminations across UK, EMEA, and international workforces.
• Support HR, legal, and business stakeholders on EMEA and international employment matters, including cross-border workforce issues, employment policies, training initiatives, change management, risk management, and employment-related regulatory considerations.
• Draft, review, and negotiate employment-related documentation such as employment contracts, retention agreements, transfer arrangements, settlement agreements, senior executive contracts, policy documents, and employment contract templates across key jurisdictions.
• Collaborate with teams on employment-related contractual matters including personnel-related clauses, health and safety obligations, workforce risk, outsourcing arrangements, TUPE considerations, and customer-facing commercial agreements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer eligible to practise in the UK, or equivalent overseas qualification with strong relevant UK employment law experience.
• Demonstrated experience advising on UK employment law matters including employee relations, performance management, grievances, disciplinary processes, workplace investigations, terminations, redundancies, restructurings, and settlement agreements.
• Experience advising corporations, in-house legal teams, HR teams, or senior business stakeholders on complex and sensitive employment issues, either in-house or through a leading law firm.
• Strong exposure to contentious and non-contentious employment matters, EMEA and international employment law, cross-border advisory work, employment policies, workforce risk, TUPE, senior exits, discrimination, harassment, and whistleblowing issues.
• Excellent commercial awareness, stakeholder management skills, judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to deliver pragmatic, business-focused legal advice in fast-paced, sensitive, and international environments.

Compensation & Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation and benefits package within the alternative legal services marketplace.
• Health benefits, pension, and additional perks.
• Access to professional development resources and learning programs.
• Flexible work arrangements including remote, onsite, or hybrid options depending on client requirements.

Location

Flexible location options with remote, onsite, or hybrid work arrangements based on client needs.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

The organization is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, political opinion, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, age, disability, citizenship status, marital status, genetic predisposition, sexual orientation, military service, or any other protected characteristic.

Reasonable accommodations are available upon request for individuals with disabilities to participate in the recruitment process.

Additional Information

Employment may be contingent upon successful completion of background checks, proof of identity, and legal authorization to work.

Applicants are expected to provide accurate and truthful information throughout the application process.