Labor & Employment Counsel - EMEA

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Reporting to the VP Chief Counsel Labor & Employment, the Labor & Employment Counsel will be a trusted advisor to Veralto's Corporate functions and Operating Companies (OpCos), delivering practical legal solutions and scalable best practices across a diverse and dynamic region.

• Advising on EU, national, and local employment laws including discrimination, harassment, wage and hour, restrictive covenants, leaves, accommodations, hiring, contracting, labor relations, and whistleblower protections.
• Assist operating companies with complex HR-related investigations/audits including overseeing third party investigators, supporting internal Operating Company investigators and sometimes personally conducting such investigations
• Leading employment-related litigation and adversarial matters, including strategy development, agency responses, and settlement negotiations.
• Acting as EMEA legal subject matter expert on cross-functional initiatives, M&A activity, and compliance reviews.
• Designing and implementing turnkey legal solutions that embed compliance and efficiency across OpCos of varying sizes and complexities.
• Provide pragmatic L&E legal advice to HR and business leaders on entire range of labor and employment matters and drive sustained compliance through development and implementation of scalable and process-based solutions.
• Monitor new laws, regulations and decisions affecting the substantive legal areas above and provide strategic advice to company leadership.

• Legal certification from an accredited law school and eligibility to practice in relevant jurisdictions.
• 5+ years of experience in labor and employment law, ideally with exposure to Germany, France, and Benelux countries.
• Proven ability to manage complex investigations and employment disputes.
• Strong process orientation with a track record of scaling legal solutions across matrixed organizations.
• Experience working independently across geographies and an established track-record of constructively partnering across functions.
• Agility and a business-first mindset, with the ability to align legal advice to operational and strategic goals.
• Business-fluent English; German or French are a plus.

With annual sales of $5 billion, Veralto is a global leader in essential technology solutions with a proven track record of solving some of the most complex challenges we face as a society. Our industry-leading companies with globally recognized brands are building on a long-established legacy of innovation and customer trust to create a safer, cleaner, more vibrant future.

Veralto's Water Quality companies—Aquatic Informatics, ChemTreat, Hach, McCrometer, OTT HydroMet, Sea-Bird Scientific, Trojan Technologies, and XOS—manage, treat, purify, and protect the global water supply, from municipal and wastewater treatment facilities to lakes, rivers, watersheds, and oceans. And our Product Quality & Innovation companies—Esko, Linx, Pantone, Videojet, and X-Rite—protect the world's food, medicine, and essentials by tracking and authenticating the billions of goods that travel the global supply chain every day. Veralto is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with 300+ locations worldwide.

At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

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