Lawyer, Employment

The Department

DLA Piper's global employment practice advises clients worldwide on employment legislation, helping them meet their workforce objectives. We partner with our clients, wherever they do business, to find solutions and manage risk in relation to their employment, incentives and pensions legal challenges and objectives. 

With lawyers across the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, our global employment team is one of the largest in the world, with one of the widest geographical footprints of any international law firm. 

We can assist with: 

• Acquisitions
• Outsourcings
• Expansions or reductions-in-force
• Local or international employee relations 
• Data privacy or data protection
• Local, cross-border or collective litigation
• Local or multi-jurisdictional compliance
• Risk management

Our clients range from startups to emerging multinationals and some of the biggest and best-known global brands in the world. We work with our clients locally, internationally and across borders. Our global reach and local knowledge mean that we can partner with clients to drive consistency, deliver cost savings and help them identify and manage their priorities and risk across multiple locations. 

With market and economic shifts, new technology, globalization and global mobility, a demand for more flexible workforces and ever-increasing scrutiny of compliance and ethics, the employment and labour challenges for multinationals are greater than ever.

Role purpose

We are currently recruiting a bright Lawyer to join our Employment team within our market leading Employment group in Rome or Milan. If you’re an ambitious Lawyer with a solid experience in employment, bring your ambition, initiative and entrepreneurial mindset to a global business that’s redefining the possible. You will be advising leading national and international companies operating in the most prominent industries on a wide range of employment matters including general advice, both ordinary and strategic; assistance on contentious matters and the management of the relationship with trade unions; social security law.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Managing and advising on a wide range of strategic employment law risks and issues;
• Drafting, advising on and negotiating, as required, a variety of agreements, including contracts of employment, settlement agreements and supporting general commercial agreements involving employment matters;
• Undertaking complex and routine legal cases involving employment matters including compliances, internal investigations and disciplinary matters.

About you

• Solid background in employment and labour law matters;
• Strong academics;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Commitment to delivering a high level of client service;
• Ability to manage competing priorities and a varied workload;

We do not set up upper or lower limits of PQE for our vacancies. However, we think that candidates having between 1 and 4 PQE in the employment law sector are likely to have the right level of expertise to undertake the role.