Director, Employment Law
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Employment law director leading California and multi-state compliance for LaserAway, the nation’s leader in aesthetic dermatology. Managing litigation, accommodations, wage-and-hour strategy, and HR compliance.
Responsibilities:
- Lead strategy for employment litigation, including wage-and-hour class actions, PAGA matters, single-plaintiff claims, and arbitrations
- Manage outside counsel, legal budgets, billing guidelines, and case outcomes
- Oversee responses to EEOC and state agency charges, investigations, and information requests
- Provide oversight for workplace investigations and workers’ compensation litigation
- Identify litigation trends and develop practical risk-reduction strategies
- Serve as the primary subject-matter expert on California employment law while supporting compliance across additional states
- Advise HR and Operations on terminations, performance management, severance, restrictive covenants, employee relations, and workplace safety
- Track federal, state, and local legal developments and guide policy and process changes
- Support labor relations strategy as needed
- Lead proactive wage-and-hour audits and responses to government inquiries
- Advise on California overtime, double time, meal and rest periods, premium pay, commissions, bonuses, and multiple rates of pay
- Maintain legally sound worker classifications
- Partner with HR, Payroll, Finance, and IT to improve timekeeping, pay statements, payroll calculations, and incentive-plan design
- Counsel Benefits and Leave Administration teams on FMLA, state and local leave, and workers’ compensation matters
- Establish legal standards for ADA and California FEHA interactive-process and accommodation requirements
- Advise on return-to-work plans, light-duty assignments, fitness-for-duty evaluations, and leave exhaustion
- Standardize leave documentation, medical certification processes, and employee communications
- Manage and develop the Senior Manager of HR Compliance
- Oversee employment policies, handbooks, state addenda, compliance procedures, and the employee hotline
- Partner with senior leaders to resolve high-risk employment matters efficiently and consistently
Requirements:
- Juris Doctor from an accredited law school
- Active bar membership in good standing
- 8–12+ years of labor and employment law experience, including law firm training and in-house leadership
- Deep, current, and practical knowledge of California employment law
- Experience supporting a multi-state, multi-location workforce
- Expertise in wage-and-hour compliance, PAGA, leave administration, ADA/FEHA accommodations, worker classification, and technical pay calculations
- Experience managing employment litigation, outside counsel, and legal spend
- Ability to advise senior leaders and translate legal requirements into workable business solutions
- People-management experience
- Familiarity with HRIS, payroll, and leave-management systems
Benefits:
- Annual bonus
- Medical coverage
- 401(k)
- Paid time off
- Employee discounts
- Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities
- Limited travel for investigations, hearings, agency proceedings, or company meetings
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