Description
This is the top legal position with responsibility for determining legal posture and interests of the organization. As General Counsel, ensures that business practices, policies, and dealings of the organization meet regulatory requirements to protect the organization from legal action, manages the organization's defense, the interpretation and preparation of legal documents and provides counsel to corporate management on legal matters. Generally serves as or supervises Corporate Secretary (Legal). Responsible for the supervision of the legal staff. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, incumbents in this position meet the criteria for exempt status.