Legal Counsel, Employment Law, UK and Europe

Job Description

An exciting opportunity to join a high-performing, global in-house employment law team, with a varied breadth and scope of advisory and litigation work. Your role will be to advise on and manage employment law matters in the UK and Europe and to help mitigate reputational, financial, and regulatory-related risks arising from people issues. You will also have the opportunity to support Group-wide projects whichhave an employment law element. Responsibilities

• Managing employment litigation/disputes in the UK and Europe
• Advising on employment issues in the UK and Europe, including investigations, accountability reviews, material disciplinary and grievance matters, performance management, redundancies, restructures and contentious exits.
• Advising and best practice guidance on regulatory issues affecting staff, particularly relating to remuneration and references.
• Participating in global and local HR projects.
• Advising on HR policies and the Groups employment contract templates.
• Advising on diversity and inclusion initiatives.
• Supporting and advising on data subject access requests.

Requirements

• Our ideal candidate must have a University degree in law or other university degree plus GDL conversion from an accredited law school.
• You need experience in:
  • Employment litigation
  • Employment contracts and policies.
  • Employee relations issues such as disciplinaries, grievances, redundancy/restructure and termination of employment.
  • Employee data privacy issues and data subject access requests (preferred).
  • Regulatory issues affecting staff, particularly remuneration (preferred).
• You will ideally have between 2-4 years PQE experience. A UK Solicitors Regulation Authority practising certificate will be required in most cases (unless an international equivalent is recognised in the UK).
• We expect:
  • Good organisational skills to manage multiple matters at the same time. Being able to pivot as priorities change is essential.
  • Strong analytical skills. You will often be advising in real time as matters are unfolding so must be comfortable with ambiguity and confident taking a pragmatic approach.
  • Excellent communication skills and succinct written style, with the ability to match your tone and level of detail to your audience.
  • Strategic mindset, recognising the wider organisational, commercial or regulatory impact that a matter may have beyond the immediate set of facts.
  • Disciplined approach towards timelines and tracking all steps required.

You will be offered

• The opportunity to work in a global, diverse organisation with a rich spectrum of employment law work.
• Competitive benefits package (incl. health & life insurance, pension plan, meal & sports cards) and 30 days of leave per year.
• 3 days of paid volunteering leave our employees can use to support the cause of your choice.
• A central office location in the City of London, and the flexibility to work hybrid. Flexible hours will also be considered.
• Modern office space with in-house catering and collaboration spaces.

About Standard Chartered Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, weve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunitiesto grow and do better than before. If youre looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we cant wait to see the talents you canbring us. Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity , together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours . When you work with us, youll see how we value difference and advocateinclusion. Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental / maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-helptoolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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