Role Purpose:
NBCUniversal seeks a bright and capable Counsel, Employment Law to provide strategic and practical legal counsel to the Company’s Human Resources professionals and business executives.
Job Duties:
- Advise Human Resources professionals, corporate and production executives, and other NBCUniversal lawyers and business partners on employment law issues, including but not limited to:
- California and other states’ employment laws
- Accommodation and leave of absence requests
- Employee misconduct and performance management
- Employment policy development and application
- Reductions in force
- Wage-and-hour issues
- Oversee, conduct and provide counsel on internal investigations, ensuring that concerns are promptly, thoroughly, and appropriately addressed
- Represent NBCUniversal, including working with other NBCUniversal lawyers and outside counsel as appropriate, at mediations and arbitrations for, as well as in litigation of, employment claims
- Research and analyze complex legal issues
- Draft documents, including correspondence with opposing counsel, EEOC and state agency position statements, mediation statements, and settlement/separation agreements
- Monitor federal, state, and local legal legislative developments, and advise on emerging employment law issues
- Create and deliver employment law-related training programs
- Support Employment Law Department as well as enterprise-wide initiatives