Baker McKenzie
Employment Lawyer - 4-6 yrs pqe
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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Employment Lawyer with 4–6 years PQE to join our market leading Employment Practice in our newly established team in Belfast working primarily with our London team but also across the region and the globe.
About Us
Our Employment team work with our clients on the full range of domestic and international employment issues. We work with a broad range of blue chip and global clients across a range of sectors, including financial services, TMT, pharmaceutical, transport, consumer and retail.
Working at Baker McKenzie
Baker McKenzie is the world’s leading law firm with offices all over the world. Our Belfast Centre is home to over 400 colleagues in both legal and professional services.
We offer one of the best workplace benefits packages in the business with comprehensive private health cover, income protection, life assurance and a full employee assistance plan. These and a host of other benefits make us one of the most desirable companies to work for in Belfast.
We are committed to promoting inclusion, diversity, and equity for all and are confident we can provide a career as individual and as exceptional as you.
Responsibilities
As part of this role, the successful candidate will:
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Examples of matters you may be involved in include:
- Transactions:
- Advising on diligence reviews and preparing diligence reports;
- Co-ordinating multi-jurisdictional disclosure schedules;
- Advising on global business carve outs in advance of sales and post-acquisition integrations;
- Advising on when TUPE applies and relevant consequences, for example, protection against dismissal, changing terms and conditions, the election of worker representatives and protective awards;
- Advising on TUPE information and consultation requirements;
- Drafting and negotiating relevant provisions in core transactional documentation and advising on other associated transactional matters as required
- Transactions:
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Redundancy:
- Advising on when a redundancy situation arises and requirements of individual and collective redundancy procedures;
- Advising on domestic issues such as pooling and the application of appropriate selection criteria.
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Multi-jurisdictional projects:
- Being part of a team working on global or multi-jurisdictional projects, such as restructuring exercises, global policy or contract reviews, pay equity reviews and other compliance projects;
- Co-ordinating and reviewing global advice to prepare centralised advice to clients.
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Litigation:
- Working on Employment Tribunal claims, including unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and equal pay claims;
- Managing and conducting disclosure exercises;
- Preparing ET3 forms, Grounds of Resistance and witness statements;
- Advising on and negotiating settlements;
- Advising on the enforceability of restrictive covenants.
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Investigations:
- Conducting fact finding investigations into employee allegations, including grievances and whistleblowing allegations;
- Advising on investigation procedures including scoping.
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Data Subject Access Requests:
- Preparing data privacy notices;
- Advising on applicable search terms in response to data subject access requests;
- Reviewing and redacting documents as required.
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Travel requirements: Some travel may be required.
Essential Criteria
To be successful in this role you will need:
- Skills and Experience:
- Qualified solicitor In Northern Ireland and/or England and Wales with excellent academics and demonstrable employment experience gained from a leading employment practice.
- Good commercial mind-set, a strong team player and have the ability to build excellent relationships with clients.
- Ability to work well in a team with others of various experience levels as well as individually.
- Sound commercial awareness and a "client first" service orientation
- Ability to set high standards of performance and deliver desired results.
- A "self-starter" who is collaborative, pragmatic, commercial, and adaptable in their approach.
- Ability to balance work priorities and manage deadlines effectively.
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