Legal Counsel, Labor and Employment Law

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, andtreatment facilitiesin Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

The Counsel-Labor and Employment serves as a key member of the City of Hope legal team. Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel, they will provide a broad range of legal services to support City of Hope, including responsibility for providing legal advice and support regarding a variety labor and employment matters, including, without limitation, legal advice and analysis of labor and employment laws; drafting and reviewing vendor agreements and contracts; drafting and reviewing policies; drafting employment agreements and other human resources documents; performing legal research and drafting legal opinions; traditional labor support; assisting with organization projects and initiatives, as needed.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Act as a legal counselor/advisor for City of Hope's human resources, compliance, and internal audit teams, as well as other stakeholders as needed.
• Demonstrated multi-jurisdictional knowledge of applicable labor and employment laws; provide legal support for a broad range of day-to-day labor and employment matters, including but not limited to, wage and hour, independent contractors, OSHA, workers compensation, workplace accommodations, investigations, employee benefits, traditional labor/grievances, and other workforce-related issues.
• Develop, draft, review, and revise organizational workforce policies, guidelines, and procedures; develop and revise employment-related Human Resources templates and agreements; draft, review, and revise Human Resources-related vendor agreements and contracts; assist Deputy General Counsel with review and revision of benefits agreements.
• Conduct legal research and analyze federal and multi-state employment laws; monitor and analyze legislation and other legal developments and report on same; draft, edit, and finalize legal opinions, memoranda, correspondence, and presentations about labor and employment law issues.
• Assist Deputy General Counsel and other members of the City of Hope legal team on a variety of matters, including matters assigned to outside counsel. Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.
• Effectively communicate with internal stakeholders and provide legal advice in a practical and easy to understand manner to allow the business team to appropriately evaluate risk.
• Provide training and education as appropriate regarding new developments, legal updates, workforce-related issues and/or new policies.

Your qualifications should include:

• Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school.
• 5-7 years of demonstrated California and U.S. multi-jurisdictional employment law experience in a law firm or in-house legal department.
• 3+ years of traditional labor law experience.
• Experience with ERISA/employee benefits preferred.
• Experience in healthcare, non-profits and/or academic medical centers preferred.
• Must be a member in good standing of one State Bar, preferably California, Arizona, Illinois or Georgia.

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.

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