Associate/ Senior Associate - Labour and Employment

Chadha & Co. is a leading full service corporate and commercial law firm, having a specialised practice in advising foreign companies on their Indian legal and regulatory issues.  We act for clients from over 40 countries, and advise them across industries and areas of law. From our offices in New Delhi, we serve client needs across the country. Our clients include many of the world's leading companies doing business in India.  The firm has an excellent, collegial work environment, and provides the team ample opportunities to learn and make impactful contributions. Lawyers work in a multi-cultural office. The firm has several foreign staff, and encourages diversity. Lawyers routinely interact with clients and law firms from across the world. The firm has a highly reputed and ranked labour and employment practice.  We are presently looking for high quality Associates/ Senior Associates for our Labour and Employment practice. Experience and qualifications:

• Experience: 3-7 years in a reputed corporate law firm and/or as an in-house counsel; 
• Qualifications: LLB/ LLM from a reputed university.

• In-depth knowledge and experience of labour and employment laws; drafting appointment/ termination/ severance letters, employment policies/ codes/ handbooks, contracts with third parties, settlement agreements; wage structuring, redundancies, social security benefits, etc.; day-to-day advisory and rendering of legal opinions; conducting workplace investigations; undertaking compliance and filing returns under the various laws; appearing before the labour authorities/ tribunals/ courts; 

• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, proactive, energetic, with an ability to manage competing priorities and deliver under tight timelines; 

• Comfortable interacting with senior management and working across multiple time zones and cultures; 

• Strong interpersonal skills, with a low tolerance for politics at the workplace;

• Excellent written and spoken English. 

• New Delhi