Senior Legal Counsel- Employment

1 week ago

Greater London, United Kingdom Legal & General Full time

Your role at glance


To support the Assistant General Counsel (People & Operations) in providing a first-class employment law service to the L&G Group both in the UK and internationally. The role holder will be responsible for providing day-to-day employment advice to HR and business managers (as appropriate) across the Group in a way that allows the business to achieve its aims and which ensures consistent corporate approach is taken across the Group while minimising material legal risk.


What you'll be doing


  • To provide employment legal advice to all L&G business divisions to ensure:


a) the Group’s strategic and commercial objectives are, where possible, furthered;

b) a proper account is taken of material legal risks identified and the Group’s position is mitigated and protected;

c) compliance with relevant legislation and regulation; and

d) all corporate governance aspects are considered.


  • To provide employment law advice to:


a) HR teams and business managers (as appropriate) across the Group in relation to day to day employment matters such as policies and procedures, sickness absence, flexible working requests, performance and conduct issues, grievances, appeals, redundancies and restructures;

b) HR teams and the business in relation to complex legal matters such as discrimination, equal pay, holiday pay and working time and changing contractual terms;

c) HR teams and the business in relation to senior exits and settlement agreements;

d) HR teams, Group Compliance and the business in relation to benefits including pensions (with external advice where appropriate), share plans and remuneration (including compliance with Regulatory obligations such as the Remuneration Code);

e) HR teams, Group Procurement and the business in relation to TUPE including first and second generation outsourcing, insourcing and business sales and acquisitions;

f) The business, Recruitment and HR in relation to restraint of trade issues both on commencement and termination of employment;

g) HR and the business (as appropriate) in relation to immigration issues and obligations including sponsor licence management, visa applications, business travel, overseas remote working (with external advice where appropriate);

h) HR, the business and Group Legal colleagues in relation to the planning and execution of corporate transactions, including assisting with due diligence where relevant;

i) The Employment Relations team, HR and the business in relation to Trade Union issues;

j) HR teams and the business (as appropriate) in relation to Group transformation projects (for example, previous projects include IR35, International HR and Future of Work); and

k) The business and HR in relation to international labour issues (seeking local advice where appropriate).



  • To manage employment law litigation ensuring that material legal and reputational risks are minimised while establishing a culture that is perceived as robust and which does not reward for failure.
  • To assist the Assistant General Counsel (People & Operations) to identify and report any matters which are of strategic, reputational or material financial value to Group General Counsel.
  • To manage external legal fees to ensure business costs are kept to a minimum and manage external legal advice to ensure sound and commercially useful advice is provided to the business.
  • To ensure there is appropriate horizon scanning of legal and regulatory developments and ensure that the business is advised in a timely and appropriate manner.
  • To provide training and guidance to HR (as required) to ensure they are equipped to manage complex matters, topics of interest and/or areas of concern to the business.
  • To ensure the design and implementation of HR policies gives sufficient emphasis that the fair treatment of customers and employees as is central to our corporate culture


What we are looking for


  • England & Wales qualified solicitor (or a solicitor or attorney qualified in another jurisdiction)
  • Experience of working in-house in financial services would be desirable
  • Detailed knowledge of the relevant statutory, regulatory and common employment law applicable to a major financial services group
  • An awareness of legislative and best practice change and its applicability to a financial services organisation such as Legal & General Group PLC
  • Competent in use of IT systems such as Microsoft Word
  • We would envisage the role being suitable for an individual who has circa 5+ years’ post qualification experience. Please note this is a guide only and we would be willing to consider applications from individuals with different levels of post qualification experience.
  • The role is envisaged to be a part-time time role although we are happy to consider the role on a full-time basis.

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