UK remote
Employment Lawyer
About this role
We are currently seeking Employment Lawyers to support Axiom clients across a broad range of industries on complex UK, EMEA, and international employment law matters. Responsibilities: Advise on contentious and non-contentious UK employment law matters, including employee relations, performance management, disciplinary processes, grievances, senior exits, redundancies, restructurings, and settlement agreements. Support sensitive employment matters, including workplace investigations, whistleblowing complaints, misconduct, discrimination, harassment, bullying, senior employee issues, and complex terminations.
Partner with HR, legal, commercial, procurement, and senior business stakeholders on EMEA and international employment matters, including cross-border workforce issues, policies, training, change management, and workforce risk. Draft, review, and negotiate employment-related documentation, including employment contracts, settlement agreements, senior executive agreements, retention arrangements, transfer documentation, policy documents, contract templates, and TUPE-related documentation.
Minimum Qualifications: Qualified lawyer eligible to practise in the UK, or equivalent overseas qualification with strong UK employment law experience. Experience advising on UK employment law matters, including employee relations, workplace investigations, grievances, disciplinary processes, terminations, redundancies, restructurings, and settlement agreements. Experience supporting corporations, in-house legal teams, HR teams, or senior business stakeholders on complex, sensitive, contentious, and non-contentious employment issues.
Exposure to EMEA or international employment law, cross-border advisory work, TUPE, senior exits, discrimination, harassment, whistleblowing, workforce risk, outsourcing arrangements, or employment-related commercial matters. Compensation, Benefits & Location: This role offers a highly competitive compensation and benefits package in the alternative legal services marketplace, that includes health benefits, pension and more.
Axiomites also get access to professional development resources and learning and development programs. Axiom provides the opportunity to work remotely, onsite or hybrid, depending on client requirements. Axiom is the global leader in high-calibre, on-demand legal talent. Covering North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC, we enable legal departments to drive efficiency and growth and meet the demands of today’s business landscape with best in breed alterative legal services.