Employment Lawyer EMEA Employment Advisory

Employment Lawyer (3–5 PQE) | EMEA Employment Advisory | 4-Month Contract

📅 Start: ASAP / On short notice

🕒 Full-Time

📍 Location: Hybrid (London)

Elevate Legal Talent is recruiting an Employment Lawyer for a four-month in-house secondment with a leading global technology and digital infrastructure organisation. Supporting the company's Global Employment Legal Team, you'll provide practical employment law advice across the EMEA region while collaborating with Legal and HR teams on international matters where required.

This is an excellent opportunity for a lawyer with around 3–5 years' employment law experience who is looking to gain or further develop in-house experience within a global organisation.

You'll work closely with experienced employment lawyers and HR professionals, advising on a broad range of day-to-day employment matters across the EMEA region, while also supporting international matters where required.

The Role

As part of the Global Employment Legal Team, you'll provide practical, commercially focused legal advice to HR and business stakeholders on a wide variety of employment law issues.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Advising on day-to-day employment law matters across EMEA.
• Supporting employee relations matters, grievances, disciplinary issues and workplace investigations.
• Advising on performance management, sickness absence, family leave, workplace accommodations and return-to-work matters.
• Supporting recruitment, onboarding, employment contracts and contingent workforce issues.
• Advising on terminations, restructures, redundancies and organisational change.
• Assisting with collective consultation processes and engagement with works councils and employee representative bodies.
• Reviewing and updating employment policies, procedures and HR documentation.
• Liaising with external counsel on jurisdiction-specific employment law matters.
• Monitoring legal developments and supporting wider employment law projects.

About You

We're keen to hear from qualified Employment Lawyers who have:

• Approximately 3–5 years' post-qualification employment law experience (or equivalent relevant experience).
• Strong employment law advisory experience gained in private practice or in-house.
• Experience handling employee relations, investigations and day-to-day HR advisory work.
• Knowledge of restructures, redundancies and employment lifecycle matters.
• Exposure to EMEA employment law or cross-border employment matters would be advantageous.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A pragmatic, commercial and solutions-focused approach to providing legal advice.

Why Apply?

• Join a globally recognised technology company.
• Gain valuable multinational in-house experience.
• Work alongside an experienced international Employment Legal Team.
• Broad exposure to cross-border employment matters.
• Business-facing role with genuine responsibility from day one.

About Elevate

Elevate provides consulting, technology and services to law departments and law firms across the globe. Headquartered in Los Angeles, our 1,600+ strong team of legal professionals, lawyers, consultants, project managers, and engineers operate across the United States, Europe, UK, and Asia, Hong Kong and Australia.

ElevateFlex, is the flexible resourcing capability within Elevate, we define and support a new flexible career within the legal industry. We match exceptional legal professionals to the evolving needs of our Customers through the curation of a world-class, global Community of Talent, and advanced, technology-enabled search. We were recently proud to be assessed in Band 1 of Chamber’s Global Flexible Legal Resourcing category.

Our Vision is a world where legal and business teams achieve incredible outcomes, together.

Equitability and Inclusion are critical to ElevateFlex’s success. As The Law Company, changing the legal business landscape, we know a diverse, inclusive work culture is at the heart of attracting, retaining, and celebrating the industry’s most talented people. We empower our employees to bring their whole selves to work because we know that diversity of experience and perspective drive innovation and is simply good business.

As a strong proponent of diversity, equitability, and inclusion, ElevateFlex is committed to hiring diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

We invite you to apply to become part of the ElevateFlex Team – help us change the legal business landscape and make a dent in the legal universe.