Labor Relations Counsel

5-10 yrs required

Full-time

No

The Labor Relations Counsel is a full-time exempt position. Relocation not provided. The role of Labor Relations Counsel is located at our headquarters in Tysons (McLean), Virginia. Local, national, and international travel: 10 - 35%; sporadically 50 – 75%.







Interested applicants are requested to submit online application only at / . Please upload your cover letter and resume in one (1) document. No phone calls please.







Summary:

- Job title: Labor Relations Counsel
- Organization: Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA)
- Location: Tysons (McLean), Virginia
- Job ID: 2024-0015
- Experience: 5 years
- Category: Contract Administration & Enforcement/Representation - Labor Relations Counsel
- Salary: Competitive with generous benefits
- Travel: 10-35% (sometimes up to 75%)
- Education: Juris Doctor (JD), Master of Law (LLM), or similar advanced degree from an approved school of law
- Bar membership in good standing
- Experience in labor law and litigation, negotiations, collective bargaining, and arbitration preferred
- Knowledge of Railway Labor Act and Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) preferred
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to organize and coordinate long-term projects
- Demonstrated ability to use independent judgment under time pressure and urgent conditions
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Competitive benefits include 401k plan, health care benefits, vacation and holiday time, sick and bereavement leave, parental leave, company-paid premiums for disability and life insurance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, retiree health plan, and optional benefits such as pet insurance and legal plan
- Partial remote work opportunities available

Responsibilities:

- Provide assistance to pilot governing bodies and individual members on all employment-related issues
- Handle complex labor relations assignments and serve as a labor relations professional
- Assist in negotiating agreements and maintain communication with all interested parties
- Monitor and administer contracts, manage FAA actions against individual pilots, and prepare summaries of NTSB Accident/Incident hearings
- Actively listen, build trust, and adapt style and tactics to fit the audience
- May be called upon at any hour to respond to safety-related emergency inquiries
- Travel, sometimes up to 75%, is required

Qualifications:

- Juris Doctor (JD), Master of Law (LLM), or similar advanced degree from an approved school of law
- Member in good standing of the Bar
- Five (5) years of related experience in labor law and litigation, ten (10) or more years preferred
- Aviation experience preferred
- Negotiations experience strongly preferred
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to organize and coordinate long-term projects
- Demonstrated ability to use independent judgment under time pressure and urgent conditions
- Knowledge of Railway Labor Act and Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) preferred
- Experience using online legal research, Westlaw or equivalent, preferred
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint

Physical Demands:

- Constantly operates a computer/smartphone/tablet
- Regularly required to maintain a stationary position, move about the office and local metropolitan area, determine what others have said or written, and converse with others and exchange accurate information
- Regularly required to sit, stand, bend, reach, and move about the office and occasionally bend, stoop, squat, and/or push and pull or move, ., to pack, unpack, and/or move cases
- Occasionally required to move, raise, reach, and/or retrieve binders, books, boxes, and files up to ten (10) pounds (lbs.)
- While on travel, could be responsible to move, raise, reach, and/or retrieve luggage weighing as much as 50 lbs.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

- ALPA is committed to diversity and inclusion in a safe workplace
- Prohibits discrimination, harassment, and harmful behavior based on protected characteristics as outlined in federal or provincial laws
- Encourages all to apply, including minorities, veterans, and people with disabilities

Application Process:

- Interested applicants are requested to submit online application only at /
- Upload cover letter and resume in one (1) document
- No phone calls please

Not specified

401k Plan with Non-Elective Employer Contribution, health care benefits, 15 days paid vacation, 12 holidays per year, 2 volunteer days per year, sick and bereavement leave, competitive parental leave, company-paid premiums for disability and life insurance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, retiree health plan, education assistance program, optional benefits including pet insurance and legal plan, partial remote work opportunities

Not specified

Labor law, litigation, collective bargaining, grievance, arbitration, negotiation, legal research, Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint

Juris Doctor (JD), Master of Law (LLM), or similar advanced degree from an approved school of law

Send resume and cover letter to ALPA's Human Resources department, or apply online at

Qualification and Experience Juris Doctor (JD), Master of Law (LLM), or similar advanced degree from an approved school of law, member in good standing of the Bar

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