HR Legal & Labor Relations Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Philippines.

📋 Description

• Evaluate employee relations cases that pertain to performance, attendance, misconduct, policy breaches, and other disciplinary issues.

• Assist the HR department with company-initiated offboarding processes, which include performance-related terminations, layoffs/redundancies, and other justified or authorized reasons.

• Review and aid in the preparation of Notices to Explain (NTEs), disciplinary notices, termination letters, administrative hearing documents, and associated correspondence.

• Ensure that all necessary documentation and due process requirements are adhered to prior to executing employment actions.

• Support labor-related matters and collaborate with external legal counsel as needed.

• Help in compiling case summaries, chronologies, evidence, and supporting materials for SEnA, DOLE, NLRC, and other labor-related proceedings.

• Monitor ongoing cases, deadlines, necessary submissions, and pending documentation.

• Review employee handbooks, employment contracts, HR policies, acknowledgment forms, waivers, templates, and other employment-related paperwork.

• Identify compliance deficiencies and suggest revisions to policies, documents, and HR processes.

• Maintain well-organized case files and standardized HR/legal templates.

• Keep abreast of pertinent Philippine labor regulations and inform HR leadership of any changes that may impact company policies or practices.

• Assess existing HR policies, employment documents, agreements, and templates, and recommend updates as required.

⛳️ Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of Philippine labor law, due process standards, disciplinary protocols, and termination procedures.

• Experience in supporting SEnA, DOLE, or NLRC cases is strongly preferred.

• Background in reviewing employment contracts, employee handbooks, HR policies, disciplinary documents, and termination paperwork.

• Excellent analytical, documentation, and business writing abilities.

• Experience in a BPO, outsourcing, staffing, or offshore organization is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Above-market salary

• HMO coverage starting on Day 1 for the principal and two dependents

• Government-mandated benefits

• Performance-based incentives

• Quarterly company events

• 1,000 PHP De Minimis

• Provision of equipment and software