Senior Counsel, Industrial Relations, Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Los Angeles, CAFull Time Job
Job Summary
This position is responsible for providing legal services relating to the Company's union-affiliated population.
Responsibilities
include, but are not limited to:
• Providing advice and counsel to Motion Picture, Finance, Studio Groups, and productions concerning union and guild collective bargaining agreements
• Providing labor and employment advice and counsel to Motion Picture and Studio Groups concerning production and Backlot employees
• Helping develop and maintain industry relationships
• Helping prepare for negotiation of industrywide collective bargaining agreements, including gathering information from various Studio Groups, analyzing payroll data and production reports, and preparing responses to requests for information
• Attending negotiations of industrywide collective bargaining agreements, and helping represent Paramount's position in the negotiation
• Helping negotiate production-specific collective bargaining agreements
• Handling labor grievances, including factual investigation, evaluating contractual positions and financial impact, negotiating settlement, and drafting settlement agreements
• Managing outside counsel handling arbitration not resolved in the grievance process
• Conducting investigations concerning claims of harassment, bullying, and retaliation, and recommend disciplinary action for Backlot employees
• Helping investigate and resolve audit claims from various pension & health plans
• Helping defend NLRB, EEO and wage and hour cases
• When requested, serving on various industry committees and/or as a trustee on guild and union pension and health plans
Basic Qualifications:
• JD degree from an accredited law school
• Bar admission required
• Excellent academic credentials
• Minimum 3 years' experience with bargaining agreements and union/management relations
• Minimum 3 years' experience in labor and employment field
Additional Qualifications:
• Experience in entertainment industry labor and employment field strongly preferred
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local labor and employment laws (EEO, FLSA, etc.)
• Excellent written, verbal, and analytical skills
• Excel proficiency, including the use of formulas, functions, tables, ranges, and pivot tables to analyze mass payroll data
• Thrives working in a team environment
• Ease with open communication and difficult conversations
• Experience interacting with all levels of staff and personnel, including senior management, executives, and industry colleagues
• Self-motivated, proactive, and inquisitive
• Excellent organization, time management, and project management skills
• Comfortable multi-tasking and prioritizing competing deadlines
• Negotiation experience
• Litigation experience