Sr Employment Counsel

Tailored Brands is seeking an experienced Sr Employment Counsel to join its Legal team. This role serves as a strategic legal advisor on employment, labor, litigation, and pre-litigation matters across the enterprise. The Employment Counsel will partner closely with Human Resources, Employee Relations, Finance, Internal Audit, and business leaders to provide practical, risk-based legal guidance on areas of employment and labor law compliance, including equal opportunity laws, leave and accommodation laws, wage and hour laws, pay equity, labor law, benefits law, and internal policy development and training. This position will also assist with threatened litigation; agency administrative charges of discrimination; and supervision of litigation and arbitrations.

Advise the Company on a broad range of employment law matters, including employee relations, workplace investigations, wage and hour compliance, leave and accommodation issues, reductions in force, restrictive covenants, separations, and policy interpretation.

Manage and help develop strategy for employment-related litigation and pre-litigation matters, including claims, demand letters, agency charges, subpoenas, and other disputes from early assessment through resolution.

Provide clear legal risk assessments and practical recommendations to business partners on sensitive and high-impact workplace matters.

Partner with Human Resources, Employee Relations, Internal Audit, and other leaders to assess legal risk, support investigations, and guide decision-making.

Support the development and maintenance of employment-related policies, templates, trainings, and playbooks to strengthen compliance and consistency across the organization.

Assist with transactions, reorganizations, and other business initiatives by identifying employment and litigation risks.

Advise on onboarding and offboarding practices and policies to include background checks, separation agreements, termination letters, hiring notices and related templates.

Partner with Human Resources on policy rollouts, handbook updates, required trainings, and manager guidance for sensitive employee matters including employment investigations.

Manage outside counsel effectively, including staffing, budgeting, and billing discipline to ensure high-quality legal work and efficient spend management.

Monitor legal developments and emerging risk areas and provide proactive guidance to help shape compliant and effective people practices.

Strong preference for California-based lawyer.

Ability to advise on labor and union-related issues, including collective activity, organizing responses, unfair labor practice risk, and matters involving represented and non-represented workforces.

In-house counsel experience.

Litigation experience preferred.

Please note that you do not need to qualify for all requirements to be considered. We encourage you to apply if you can meet most of the requirements and are comfortable opening a dialog to be considered.

Hybrid office location near the California Corporate Office or remote location, as business needs require.

Regularly scheduled for 40 hours per week, with additional time as work dictates.

Ability to sit and work at a computer for extended periods.

Ability to stoop, kneel, bend at the waist, and reach daily.

Ability to lift and move up to 25 pounds occasionally.

Must have the visual acuity, speech, hearing, hand-eye coordination, and manual dexterity necessary to operate a computer and office equipment.

We understand the demands of work, school, family, and personal responsibilities. Through our work-life resources and programs we offer services for every stage of life to help you manage the day-to-day needs. We offer programs such as:

· Meeting-Free Fridays (encouraged) | so you can catch up on work and self-development

· Summer Fridays | from Memorial Day to Labor Day so you can enjoy a head-start to the weekend

· Holiday Early Departure | close out early the business day before a company observed holiday

Note: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or qualifications associated with this job.

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