Job Description

Description About this role  Job Purpose/Background:The role will involve the provision of legal support in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) region on the full range of employment law issues which impact on BlackRock’s business in EMEA. There are approximately 5,000 employees in the EMEA region. While the main focus will be on the UK, there are staff across 20 different jurisdictions in the EMEA region including Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy and Switzerland.The Employment Lawyer role involves working closely with Human Resources across a wide range of contentious and non-contentious work including employee relations items (grievances, performance management, disciplinaries, flexible working applications, redundancies, mutual separation agreements, TUPE transfers, Tribunal claims, ACAS early conciliation, etc.) and advice to the Recruitment, Mobility, Reward and HR Operations teams.The successful candidate will join a Litigation & Employment team in London of 7 lawyers (within an EMEA Legal & Compliance department of 68 qualified lawyers, 125 compliance professionals and 7 staff in the Chief Operating Office and Administration teams) who are responsible for advising on employment law as well as litigation/dispute resolution, regulatory enforcement actions, regulatory investigations, operating events and other contentious items. There are currently two other employment lawyers as well as three litigators/regulatory enforcement lawyers in the team, in addition to the team lead.