Senior Counsel, Labor Relations, Paramount Pictures

This is a Full Time Job

This position is responsible for providing legal services relating to the Company’s union-affiliated population.

Responsibilities
include, but are not limited to:

• Providing advice and counsel to Motion Picture, Finance, Studio Groups, and productions concerning union and guild collective bargaining agreements

• Providing labor and employment advice and counsel to Motion Picture and Studio Groups concerning production and Backlot employees

• Helping develop and maintain industry relationships

• Helping prepare for negotiation of industrywide collective bargaining agreements, including gathering information from various Studio Groups, analyzing payroll data and production reports, and preparing responses to requests for information

• Attending negotiations of industrywide collective bargaining agreements, and helping represent Paramount’s position in the negotiation

• Helping negotiate production-specific collective bargaining agreements

• Handling labor grievances, including factual investigation, evaluating contractual positions and financial impact, negotiating settlement, and drafting settlement agreements

• Managing outside counsel handling arbitration not resolved in the grievance process

• Conducting investigations concerning claims of harassment, bullying, and retaliation, and recommend disciplinary action for Backlot employees

• Helping investigate and resolve audit claims from various pension & health plans

• Helping defend NLRB, EEO and wage and hour cases

• When requested, serving on various industry committees and/or as a trustee on guild and union pension and health plans

Basic Qualifications:

• JD degree from an accredited law school

• Bar admission required

• Excellent academic credentials

• Minimum 3 years’ experience with bargaining agreements and union/management relations

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in labor and employment field

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience in entertainment industry labor and employment field strongly preferred

• Knowledge of federal, state, and local labor and employment laws (EEO, FLSA, etc.)

• Excellent written, verbal, and analytical skills

• Excel proficiency, including the use of formulas, functions, tables, ranges, and pivot tables to analyze mass payroll data

• Thrives working in a team environment

• Ease with open communication and difficult conversations

• Experience interacting with all levels of staff and personnel, including senior management, executives, and industry colleagues

• Self-motivated, proactive, and inquisitive

• Excellent organization, time management, and project management skills

• Comfortable multi-tasking and prioritizing competing deadlines

• Negotiation experience

• Litigation experience

PPC operations also include Paramount Home Entertainment, Pa