Details of the Organization

Freshworks makes it fast and easy for businesses to delight their customers and employees.

Details of the Job/Internship

Freshworks is hiring a Employment Counsel with the experience 5 to 7 years to join their office in Hyderabad.

Role and Responsibilities

• Provide advice to the HR team on pre-hiring compliance matters such as registration and licenses, employment type, immigration or background verifications.
• Provide legal guidelines and support regarding the company's contract workforce and agency workers.
• Manage personnel-related investigations and disputes, including providing oversight and advice to HR teams.
• Help ensure compliance with anti-harassment & no retaliation policies.
• Collaborate with the relevant internal teams on the development and implementation of scalable personnel-related policies, processes and training to ensure best practices and compliance with applicable laws and regulations and consistency among all regional HR teams.
• Monitor labour law developments in India, locations where Freshworks has personnel, and liaise with local in-country counsel for advice and consistency. Advise the business on these developments with practical solutions.

Eligibility

• Bachelor's degree in law with demonstrated excellent academic performance.
• Candidates should have in-depth knowledge of employment laws within India.
• 5-7 years of prior combined law firm and in-house experience supporting workforce on employment law related matters.
• Experience at a global company and collaboration with other employment counsels across the globe is a plus.
• Candidates must be comfortable working with local counsel, willing to learn various employment law parameters of such locations and be able to incorporate such knowledge into in-house practice.
• Flexibility and willingness to approach legal challenges with a business-partner mentality to provide solution-oriented results that balance risk with business goals.

Salary/Stipend

It will be discussed with the candidate itself

Type of Opportunity

Fulltime

Country

India

Address

Hyderabad, Telangana, India