Responsible for providing guidance on a variety of labor and employment issues that arise from day-to-day operations of the company.
Responsibilities
- Handles labor and employment cases, and whenever necessary, civil and criminal issues, including managing legal costs to ensure effective use of resources.
- Provides guidance / renders legal opinion to the Company regarding employment and human resources issues, and labor matters including policies and procedures.
- Supervises or oversees the conduct of administrative cases or complaints relative to the violations of company policy or related issues to be conducted / facilitated by the MOCOD and PCOD.
- Drafts policies and company procedures.
- Represents the company on legal issues/concerns before the Courts and quasi-judicial government agencies, and other regulatory agencies.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge and keeping abreast on legal and labor and employment issues.
- Advises business units on employment compliance and risk management in order to accomplish business objectives without undue risk.
- Liaises with the Company's Corporate Compliance Officer on legal matters arising from labor and employment related contracts and policies.
- Provides the Company, particularly top and middle management, of legal updates and labor and employment advisories that can possibly impact the company's operations and compliance with requirements.
- Keeps Management abreast of significant labor and employment related decisions, legislations and regulatory rulings that may affect the Company's business or policy.
- Drafts, reviews, analyzes and negotiates employment and construction (labor) related agreements including consulting, severance, incentive, noncompetition and confidentiality agreements among others (target is for contracts and legal documents to be 100% compliant with the existing laws and policies).
- Provides training to everyone, particularly those deployed in the project, on topics regarding labor and employment and other legal issues that they normally encounter in their day-to-day operations.
- Coaches and guides subordinate towards the achievement of their fullest potentials.
- Ensures that subordinates behave in a highly professional manner.
- Attends all available developmental courses being offered by the company to ensure his professional development and enhancement.
- Develops a thorough understanding and familiarity with the Company's business, its people, markets, facilities, customers and competitors in order to identify trends and formulate appropriate structures and strategies.
- Ensures that case trackers and monitors, in coordination with the paralegal / legal assistant, are accurate and updated.
- Gathers all important and critical data in all the previous cases lodged against the company.
- Analyses these data in coordination with the Legal Counsel for Labor-Legal, to establish trends, projections and historical data that can be used to ensure that the interest of the company will be safeguarded.
- Provides analysis / strategies and counsels on legal and policy issues;
- Ensures that all transactions and agreements made by the company and client are within the framework of law. Anticipates and guards against legal risks facing the company;
- Represents the company or its officials in various legal proceedings;
- Prepares contracts and reviews business documents;
- Writes and administers client contracts;
- Develops and recommends improvements on legal documents, contracts, forms, instruments;
- Writes reviews and edits reports, opinions, correspondence, articles and other documents;
- Prepares briefs and other legal documents;
- Undertakes research into a variety of legal issues, relevant laws, rules, regulations, orders;
- Develops a thorough understanding of familiarity with the Company's business, its people, markets, facilities, customers and competitors in order to identify trends and formulate appropriate structures and strategies;
- Negotiates business agreements;
- Performs other tasks that may be assigned from time to time.
- Provides general legal support with emphasis on corporate, contracts, and regulatory requirements.
Qualifications
- Education: Graduate of Bachelor of Laws from any reputable Law School and must have passed the Philippine Bar.
- Experience: Must have an experience for at least 10 years in the corporate setting
- License Required: Philippine Bar Pass.
