Role Purpose:

NBCUniversal seeks a bright and capable Counsel, Employment Law to provide strategic and practical legal counsel to the Company’s Human Resources professionals and business executives.

Job Duties:

• Advise Human Resources professionals, corporate and production executives, and other NBCUniversal lawyers and business partners on employment law issues, including but not limited to:
  • California and other states’ employment laws
  • Accommodation and leave of absence requests
  • Employee misconduct and performance management
  • Employment policy development and application
  • Reductions in force
  • Wage-and-hour issues
• Oversee, conduct and provide counsel on internal investigations, ensuring that concerns are promptly, thoroughly, and appropriately addressed
• Represent NBCUniversal, including working with other NBCUniversal lawyers and outside counsel as appropriate, at mediations and arbitrations for, as well as in litigation of, employment claims
• Research and analyze complex legal issues
• Draft documents, including correspondence with opposing counsel, EEOC and state agency position statements, mediation statements, and settlement/separation agreements
• Monitor federal, state, and local legal legislative developments, and advise on emerging employment law issues
• Create and deliver employment law-related training programs
• Support Employment Law Department as well as enterprise-wide initiatives