Senior Legal Counsel, Employment

The role

This person will advise on the full spectrum of employment law issues across the French business and support global employment law initiatives across EMEA. They will handle Labor Code compliance, works council consultations, litigation, and strategic projects.

What you will do

• Advise on French employment law issues
• Support global employment law initiatives across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas
• Handle Labor Code compliance matters
• Manage works council (CSE) consultations
• Handle litigation and employee relations
• Support strategic projects across France
• Advise on individual and collective dismissals, restructurings, and settlement negotiations
• Manage performance management and misconduct investigations
• Conduct HR audits
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments across EMEA

Required qualifications

• French qualified lawyer (Avocat admitted to the French Bar or Master 2 in French Employment Law / Droit du Travail)
• 7+ years experience specializing in French employment law, either in a reputable law firm or in-house
• Fluency in French and English (both written and spoken)
• Within a commutable distance from our Paris office

Nice to have

• Experience as in-house employment counsel, ideally in a large global business headquartered outside of France
• Extensive experience managing CSE consultations, collective negotiations, restructurings, and pre-litigation/settlement strategy in France
• Work with a high-growth technology or another fast-paced company
• Exceptional analytical and writing skills, with a business-centric focus on risk
• Excellent time management skills and experience managing a diverse workload and competing stakeholder demands
• Enthusiasm for new challenges and working with a range of different stakeholders
• Be a systemic thinker with proven abilities for process improvement and simplification, including AI
• Comfortable with ambiguity, constant change, and a fast-paced culture

Benefits

• Hybrid working model with three days per week in the office

About the company

Checkout.com is a fintech company that enables over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. They have 20 offices across six continents with London as their HQ.