Corporate Counsel

Position: Corporate Employment Counsel
Description:

Role:
Employment Corporate Counsel

Location:

New York City, NY or Edison, NJ. The role requires candidate to be onsite at one of these TCS offices 5 days a week.

TCS seeks a senior employment law attorney with experience litigating and advising on domestic employment law issues. The successful candidate will be a primary legal advisor as part of a small Employment Law team, report to the Deputy General Counsel - Head of Legal, Americas, and Associate General Counsel - Deputy Head of Legal - USA and provide legal support to our human resources department.

Work from office - five days per week

Responsibilities include:

• Providing guidance to the other employment counsel and developing strategy for the employment law team.

• Providing day-to-day proactive, strategic, and practical employment law advice, assistance and counseling to HR Partners, as well as providing guidance on US employment policies.

• Working with HR to help manage and respond to employee relations issues, investigations and grievances.

• Reviewing disciplinary actions and terminations with HR.

• Supporting employment aspects of transactions with other companies, including due diligence.

• Recommending, implementing and continuously improving employment law related training.

• Monitoring legal and regulatory changes in US jurisdictions and advise on compliance.

• Supervising and managing significant employment law litigation matters in coordination with outside counsel, as required.

• Responding to EEOC and local agency discrimination complaints.

• Responding to wage and hour administrative complaints and Department of Labor investigations.

• Assisting in managing responses to subpoenas and document requests.

• Maintaining employment law files and databases.

• Liaising with employment law peers in India, Europe, and other countries, as needed.

• Other matters as directed by Head of Legal, Americas, Deputy Head of Legal - USA, and/or Senior Corporate Counsel - Employment

Qualifications:

• Minimum of eight years of experience focused on employment law and litigation, preferably with some experience in-house and in the IT industry.

• A law degree from a law school and be in good standing to practice in any state in the United States.

• Strong analytical capabilities and judgment.

• Ability to work proactively, independently and reliably under tight time frames in a fast-paced environment.

• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively as part of a team as well as cross-functionally across teams.

• Ability to handle multiple projects in a timely manner.

• Willingness to tackle matters outside area of expertise.

• Ability to interact with HR teams and other legal team members (hence this is an office role and not a work from home role).

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