Legal Counsel

Company Description

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Company Name: Booking

**Job Description**:
**The Legal Counsel - Employment Law EMEA and APAC is responsible for**:

- Provide advice on the full range of employment law and HR practice areas across multiple legal entities in EMEA and APAC regions.
- Contribute to global projects based on general knowledge of labour laws.
- Contribute legal expertise to a wide range of HR activities such as employment benefits and HR programs, organisational changes, disciplinary actions, employment contracts, investigations, termination and settlement agreements, works councils and D&I initiatives.
- Align business strategy and corporate activities (including transactions) with local employment law requirements.
- Actively take part and advise in working groups for various business projects.
- Provide trainings to HR on some key topics in EMEA and APAC regions
- Provide pragmatic and effective legal support to manage employment law and HR-related opportunities and risks.
- Co-develop and review employment policies and procedures.
- Draft and update legal templates and HR-related documents.
- Advise on and assist with employee representation/works council consultation.

**The Legal Counsel - Employment Law EMEA and APAC is skilled in**:

- ** Holding an academic degree in a European jurisdiction is mandatory**:

- ** 3-4 years of relevant experience in a top tier Law firm and/or major international corporation**:

- Experience in providing counsel and advice in a fast-paced, fast-changing working environment
- Experience with works council/employee representatives processes
- Ability to explain complex legal topics in a clear and concise manner
- Ability to work proactively
- Capable of adapting and responding to both changing and sensitive situations
- Strong work ethic; self-directed, eager to learn and resourceful
- Solution oriented and result driven
- Proactive, flexible and a teamplayer
- ** Good communication skills - fluent in English is a must-have**:

- Ability to multi-task with a flexible attitude
- Keen to develop skills to advise on multi-jurisdiction employment law topics.

**Further skills we are looking for**:

- Being curious, flexible, and a creative & pragmatic problem solver
- Confident yet collaborative
- Ability to influence stakeholders across all levels within the organization
- Being proactive, resilient and having the drive to get things done
- Having sound judgment and the ability to see the big picture and simultaneously appreciate the details necessary to operationalize the strategy
- Having the courage to take positions and make tough judgment calls
- Being a team player, self aware and a good listener - a diverse group will always find the best solution
- Ability to move with agility, prioritize workloads and meet deadlines
- Forward thinking with an interest in emerging issues in legal and policy.

**Why join the Legal & Public Affairs Team now?**

**Who we are**:
To match our global footprint and the array of challenges we face, we are proud to highlight the diversity that exists across this group. We are a team of approximately 130 professionals - representing more than 34 nationalities - with lawyers qualified in many different countries, as well as non-lawyers with public policy, economics, compliance and risk backgrounds. Our team’s previous experience spans across a multitude of industries with team members having worked for major global companies (including Uber, American Express, Airbnb, Amazon, Goog