Sr Employment Counsel

Job Description

Job Description

Tailored Brands is a leading specialty retailer of menswear, including suits, formalwear, sportswear, and a broad selection of business casual offerings. Our brands include Men's Wearhouse, Jos. A. Bank, Moores and K&G Fashion Superstore , which offers merchandise for the entire family. We help people love the way they look and feel for their most important moments by delivering personalized products and services through our convenient network of stores and e-commerce sites.

About the Job

Tailored Brands is seeking an experienced Sr Employment Counsel to join its Legal team. This role serves as a strategic legal advisor on employment, labor, litigation, and pre-litigation matters across the enterprise. The Employment Counsel will partner closely with Human Resources, Employee Relations, Finance, Internal Audit, and business leaders to provide practical, risk-based legal guidance on areas of employment and labor law compliance, including equal opportunity laws, leave and accommodation laws, wage and hour laws, pay equity, labor law, benefits law, and internal policy development and training. This position will also assist with threatened litigation; agency administrative charges of discrimination; and supervision of litigation and arbitrations.

What You’ll Do | Key Accountabilities

• Advise the Company on a broad range of employment law matters, including employee relations, workplace investigations, wage and hour compliance, leave and accommodation issues, reductions in force, restrictive covenants, separations, and policy interpretation.
• Manage and help develop strategy for employment-related litigation and pre-litigation matters, including claims, demand letters, agency charges, subpoenas, and other disputes from early assessment through resolution.
• Provide clear legal risk assessments and practical recommendations to business partners on sensitive and high-impact workplace matters.
• Partner with Human Resources, Employee Relations, Internal Audit, and other leaders to assess legal risk, support investigations, and guide decision-making.
• Support the development and maintenance of employment-related policies, templates, trainings, and playbooks to strengthen compliance and consistency across the organization.
• Assist with transactions, reorganizations, and other business initiatives by identifying employment and litigation risks.
• Advise on onboarding and offboarding practices and policies to include background checks, separation agreements, termination letters, hiring notices and related templates.
• Partner with Human Resources on policy rollouts, handbook updates, required trainings, and manager guidance for sensitive employee matters including employment investigations.
• Manage outside counsel effectively, including staffing, budgeting, and billing discipline to ensure high-quality legal work and efficient spend management.
• Monitor legal developments and emerging risk areas and provide proactive guidance to help shape compliant and effective people practices.

What You’ll Bring | Skills & Experience

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school.
• Active membership in at least one state bar in good standing.
• At least 8+ years of employment law and employment litigation experience.
• Significant experience advising multi-state employers in-house, at a law firm, or both.
• Deep knowledge of federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, including wage and hour, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, leave, disability accommodation, reductions in force, and workplace policy compliance.
• Demonstrated experience advising Human Resources and business leaders on complex employee relations matters and high-judgment workplace decisions.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across functions.
• Ability to balance legal risk with business realities and deliver practical, solution-oriented advice in a fast-paced environment.
• Sound judgment, and discretion in handling sensitive and confidential matters.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Attributes

• Strong preference for California-based lawyer.
• Ability to advise on labor and union-related issues, including collective activity, organizing responses, unfair labor practice risk, and matters involving represented and non-represented workforces.
• In-house counsel experience.
• Litigation experience preferred.

Please note that you do not need to qualify for all requirements to be considered. We encourage you to apply if you can meet most of the requirements and are comfortable opening a dialog to be considered.

Work Environment, Physical & Mental Demands

• Hybrid office location near the California Corporate Office or remote location, as business needs require.
• Regularly scheduled for 40 hours per week, with additional time as work dictates.
• Ability to sit and work at a computer for extended periods.
• Ability to stoop, kneel, bend at the waist, and reach daily.
• Ability to lift and move up to 25 pounds occasionally.
• Must have the visual acuity, speech, hearing, hand-eye coordination, and manual dexterity necessary to operate a computer and office equipment.

Benefits and Compensation

This role is eligible for healthcare including medical, dental and vision, retirement savings (401k with a company match), income protection programs such as life, accident and disability insurance, paid time off for sick leave, vacation, bereavement, jury duty, and holidays, wellbeing program, commuter, adoption assistance, education assistance, legal services, and employee merchandise discounts.

The salary for this position is $125,000 to $165,000. We take into consideration an individual’s skills, background, experience, and location in determining final salary. Other compensation may include a 10% Annual Incentive Plan (AIP) bonus paid out according to policy. Base pay information is based on market location and may be subject to prevailing wage laws, if applicable.

Work-Life Programs

We understand the demands of work, school, family, and personal responsibilities. Through our work-life resources and programs we offer services for every stage of life to help you manage the day-to-day needs. We offer programs such as:

· Meeting-Free Fridays (encouraged) | so you can catch up on work and self-development

· Summer Fridays | from Memorial Day to Labor Day so you can enjoy a head-start to the weekend

· Holiday Early Departure | close out early the business day before a company observed holiday

Note: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or qualifications associated with this job.

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