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Lowe's Corporate Counsel - Labor and Employment in Mooresville, North Carolina
Your Impact
The Corporate Counsel – Labor and Employment will oversee a variety of labor and employment matters including litigation, administrative charges, attorney demand letters, and corporate counseling matters that are core to the company’s business. The Corporate Counsel – Labor and Employment will work extensively across various functions to help craft solutions to legal challenges that Lowe’s faces every day. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a collaborative, self-directed, quickly changing, and fast-paced environment.
What you will do
Litigation Management –
• Oversee and manage employment litigation and administrative charges being handled by outside counsel, including the pursuit of risk-transfer opportunities to vendors and subcontractors.
• Manages outside counsel budgets and costs related to litigation
• Investigate and respond to complaints, investigations, audits and other employment related inquiries
Advice and Counsel –
• Provide advice and counseling on a broad spectrum of employment law issues including: selection processes employee relations, performance management, leaves of absences and accommodations, wage and hour, internal investigations, sick leave, compensation and benefits, non-competes, re-organizations and immigration
• Work with company-wide partners and manage projects with a team approach
• Evaluate employment practices and policies to accomplish priorities, and ensure compliance
• Draft and review employment related documents, agreements, and templates · Conduct audits, employment classification reviews, and support other employment-related compliance efforts
• Help develop and produce training and educational materials for personnel and managers, in partnership with Human Resources.
Transactional Duties –
• Drafts, reviews, and negotiates a variety of routine agreements and documents and continuously seeks ways to improve the forms, processes, or systems involved
• Negotiates with outside parties on contractual issues and legal disputes including settlement agreements or negotiating key contract terms
Required Qualification
• 5 Years Relevant experience in a top tier law firm or mixture of relevant experience in top-tier law firm, corporate legal department setting, and/or government agency
• Active state bar member in good standing of at least one U.S. jurisdiction
• 1 Year Direct experience with public company legal issues, processes and procedures
• 3 Years Demonstrated proficiency in labor and employment law area
Preferred Qualifications
• Career track of progressive, documented accomplishments with broad diversity of experiences
• Knowledge and exposure to legal issues encountered by a multi-national retailer
• Financial literacy, including basic understanding of project finance, accounting, and tax issues
About Lowe's:
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2023 sales of more than $86 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.
Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.