EMEA Employment Lawyer

Summary

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Apple is looking for a skilled qualified employment lawyer to join its Employment Law team based in its London office. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a hands-on team with responsibility for employment-related legal matters including Apple's operations across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

At Apple, we are dedicated to making the best products on the planet. We have a fantastic new opportunity for a hard-working lawyer to join our team of diverse, creative, and hardworking people.

Description

Provide advice and counsel to management and Apple’s People Team on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment issues including: recruiting; employee relations; disciplinary matters and terminations; union and works council matters; internal investigations; employment/labour tribunals; and employee privacy issues.
Formulate and revise standard terms of employment or engagement and employee policies.
Handle outside counsel on employment litigation matters.
Advise on change management programmes, restructures, M&A and new country expansion projects throughout the EMEA region.
Prepare and conduct employment law training programs for the People Team and management.
Occasional travel is required

Minimum Qualifications

• Extensive experience in providing varied employment advice to large multi-national organisations.
• Experience handling and completing complex multi-jurisdictional projects and familiarity with the impact of employment laws in EMEA region on global initiatives.
• Experience with collective bargaining desirable.
• Prior in-house experience valued, especially with pan-EMEA operations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Consistent track record to form relationships with clients and management.
• Excellent technical, analytical and decision-making skills together with an ability to apply them to commercial business context and communicate, both verbal and written, in a non-technical manner.
• Self-motivated and solution driven.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and perform at the highest level