Legal Assistant
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Industry Consulting Founded 2003 Type Private Website http://cdl.co.ke/ Address Highway mall, 3rd Floor, Uhuru Highway. P.O. Box 19348-00202, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Role Specification
- Holder is responsible for managing the company's Industrial Relations Matters
- Identify and advise the company on how to mitigate statutory and compliance risks
Key Result Areas:
- Statutory and legal compliance
- Industrial Relations -Minimize or ensure zero labor disputes
Specific duties & responsibilities:
- Keep and maintain regional Statutory and legal compliance schedule and ensure 100% compliance
- Establish regional expansion legal requirement per market as guided by the management and ensure compliance
- Review regional legislation and advise Management on how the Company’s operations may be affected
- Implement regular staff training to keep staff up to date with changes in the legislation and regulations and to raise awareness of legal risks and issues within business.
- Management of disciplinary matters in compliance with the law and guidance on emerging legal matters relating to Employer/Employee relations.
- Close all disciplinary cases within 7 working days
- Share monthly summary report of the disciplinary cases and industrial relations matters
- Conduct background checks for clients as per the specific client timelines (Share summary report monthly)
- Review and understand companies’ internal Policies and Procedures and ensure consistency with the organizations’ strategic goals and with the legal and regulatory requirements.
- Participating in any other duties that shall be reasonably assigned by Management from time to time.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Law (LL.B).
- Minimum of two (2) years' relevant work experience, with demonstrated exposure to employment and labour law, contract law, and general legal advisory services.
- Sound knowledge of the Employment Act, Labour Relations Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), and other relevant employment legislation.
- Strong drafting, negotiation, and legal research skills.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Currently undertaking the Advocates Training Programme (ATP) at the Kenya School of Law.
- Admission as an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya will be an added advantage/preferred.