Counsel, Labor and Employment
City of Hope
Irwindale, CA
Job posting number: #7306093 (Ref:10030109)
Posted: April 12, 2025
Salary / Pay Rate: $88.56 - $147.90 / hour
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, andtreatment facilitiesin Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
The Counsel-Labor and Employment serves as a key member of the City of Hope legal team. Reporting to the Deputy General Counsel, they will provide a broad range of legal services to support City of Hope, including responsibility for providing legal advice and support regarding a variety labor and employment matters, including, without limitation, legal advice and analysis of labor and employment laws; drafting and reviewing vendor agreements and contracts; drafting and reviewing policies; drafting employment agreements and other human resources documents; performing legal research and drafting legal opinions; traditional labor support; assisting with organization projects and initiatives, as needed.
As a successful candidate, you will:
- Act as a legal counselor/advisor for City of Hope’s human resources, compliance, and internal audit teams, as well as other stakeholders as needed.
- Demonstrated multi-jurisdictional knowledge of applicable labor and employment laws; provide legal support for a broad range of day-to-day labor and employment matters, including but not limited to, wage and hour, independent contractors, OSHA, workers compensation, workplace accommodations, investigations, employee benefits, traditional labor/grievances, and other workforce-related issues.
- Develop, draft, review, and revise organizational workforce policies, guidelines, and procedures; develop and revise employment-related Human Resources templates and agreements; draft, review, and revise Human Resources-related vendor agreements and contracts; assist Deputy General Counsel with review and revision of benefits agreements.
- Conduct legal research and analyze federal and multi-state employment laws; monitor and analyze legislation and other legal developments and report on same; draft, edit, and finalize legal opinions, memoranda, correspondence, and presentations about labor and employment law issues.
- Assist Deputy General Counsel and other members of the City of Hope legal team on a variety of matters, including matters assigned to outside counsel. Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.
- Effectively communicate with internal stakeholders and provide legal advice in a practical and easy to understand manner to allow the business team to appropriately evaluate risk.
- Provide training and education as appropriate regarding new developments, legal updates, workforce-related issues and/or new policies.
Your qualifications should include:
- Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school.
- 5-7 years of demonstrated California and U.S. multi-jurisdictional employment law experience in a law firm or in-house legal department.
- 3+ years of traditional labor law experience.
- Experience with ERISA/employee benefits preferred.
- Experience in healthcare, non-profits and/or academic medical centers preferred.
- Must be a member in good standing of one State Bar, preferably California, Arizona, Illinois or Georgia.
City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.
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Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $88.56 - $147.90 / hour
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.