Labor & Employment Counsel - EMEA

Imagine yourself... 

• Providing strategic legal guidance that shapes workplace culture across a global organization. 

• Thriving in a collaborative, purpose-driven environment where your expertise safeguards the world’s most vital resources. 

• Contributing to a more equitable, sustainable future through meaningful work that impacts lives every day. 

At Veralto, our unifying purpose of Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™ is more than words: it’s a proven path towards positive change, improvement for our planet, and development for yourself.

Whether we’re ensuring the continued availability of clean drinking water, protecting our waterways, or enhancing the traceability, color accuracy, and packaging of everyday essentials, the work we do every day contributes to a safer world and a more sustainable future.

When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of 13 operating companies and 16,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have boundless opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career

We offer:

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. 

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• 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. 

The essential requirements of the job include:

• 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.

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