Director, Corporate Counsel, Labor & Employment Legal Services @ MV

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One built on compassion, innovation, collaboration and delivering high-quality care. Come join the team that makes this happen.

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FTE 1

Scheduled Bi-Weekly

Hours:

80

Work Shift:

Day 8 hours

Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, the Corporate Counsel, Labor & Employment supports El Camino Health and its affiliated entities by providing legal guidance on labor and employment matters in a complex, unionized healthcare environment. This role advises Human Resources, leadership, and operational teams on reasonable accommodation and leave matters, employment-related regulatory compliance, labor relations, and dispute resolution. The position manages employment litigation through the organization's insurance carriers and outside counsel, supports mediations and settlements, and provides practical, business-oriented advice to mitigate employment-related risk across the health system.

The role supports and coordinates closely with executive leadership on complex, highrisk, or sensitive labor and employment matters and matters with broader enterprise or governance implications.

• Serve as the primary legal advisor to Human Resources on labor and employment matters, including employee relations, discipline, performance management, and terminations.
• Advise on ADA/FEHA reasonable accommodation requests and the interactive process, including review of documentation, assessment of operational impact, and risk analysis associated with leave and accommodation decisions.
• Provide guidance on leave-related issues, including FMLA, CFRA, pregnancy disability leave, and related federal and California requirements.
• Manage employment-related litigation and claims, including wage-and-hour, discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, and PAGA matters, primarily through insurance carriers and outside counsel.
• Act as the internal point of contact for employment claims administered by insurers, including coordinating investigation and fact development, reviewing pleadings and strategy, evaluating exposure, and recommending resolution.
• Prepare for and attend mediations, settlement conferences, and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings involving employment matters.
• Advise on employment-related regulatory and agency matters, including responses to DLSE, CRD/DFEH, EEOC, PERB, and similar government inquiries.
• Support labor relations activities in a unionized environment, including advising on collective bargaining strategy, union negotiations, grievances, arbitrations, and labor management issues.
• Support and coordinate closely with the Chief Legal Officer and Associate Chief Legal Officer on escalated, novel, or highrisk labor and employment matters, including those involving executive decision making or systemwide risk.
• Collaborate with Human Resources on the development, review, and implementation of employment policies, handbooks, and procedures.
• Provide legal guidance on employment aspects of organizational changes, including restructurings, reductions in force, and operational realignments.
• Manage relationships and workflows with outside labor and employment counsel and monitor legal spend.
• Assist with other labor and employment projects and duties, as assigned.

• Minimum of 5 years of labor and employment law experience, preferably in-house or with a law firm representing healthcare clients.
• Juris Doctor (or equivalent) from a law school…