What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate General Counsel - Labor & Employment position at Hassan & Sons Inc?
Job Description
Job Description
Required : Full-time, On-site Corporate HQ - (Orange, CA)
Position Summary
The Associate General Counsel - Labor & Employment oversees legal matters of the business, with a heavy emphasis on labor, employment, worker’s compensation and wage and hour matters, including acting as the company’s legal representative and agent for service of process. The Associate General Counsel is engaged in all aspects of legal matters, including but not limited to pre-litigation and litigation, corporate contracts and negotiations, managing outside counsel, bill review, overseeing the handling and reserves for open workers’ compensation claims, and collaborating with Human Resources on personnel matters pertaining to H&S Energy, LLC and its affiliates, a multi-site gas station and convenience store operator with over 165 locations in California and Nevada and a proprietary c-store brand, Power Market and its affiliate, H&S Energy Venture Group and HASCO Holdings, with over 260 marketer served locations in Oregon and Northern California.
Responsibilities and Duties :
- Internal handling of pre-litigation matters with emphasis on achieving a pre-filing resolution.
- Advise executive members on law and policy as it pertains to employment law in the oil and retail industry
- Provide legal and compliance advice across a wide range of issues, including, for example, employee relations; restructuring, redundancies, and outsourcing; equal opportunities and diversity; employee accommodations and interactive processes; employment litigation; mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; employee discipline, grievances, and termination; drafting of employment separation agreements; wage & hour obligations and compliance
- Retain and work effectively with outside counsel where required, and manage external counsel contracts to reduce costs, secure value-added services as appropriate
- Train Human Resources and business partners on key employment and compliance risk areas
- Keep abreast of relevant legal developments across the US, specifically focused in California and Oregon labor law. Drive consistent enterprise wise standards for Labor and Employment support
- Develop, assess, and negotiate contracts on non-disclosure, consulting, service, consignments, terms and conditions and commercial documents for business units in many areas
- Ensure consistency of contract terms with company policies and goals
- Expedite and review contracts from the Company’s suppliers, customers, and parties.
- Review, update and negotiate corporate contracts, agreements and policy
- Evaluate and reduce the Company’s contract risk
- Work under the supervision of the Company’s General Counsel and company business units to develop contract strategies.
- Review best practices to enhance contracts review processes.
Education and Work Experience
Skill Set
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successful perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.