Legal and Compliance Manager

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Key Responsibilities

Legal & Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure compliance with applicable labor laws, employment regulations, social security provisions, wage and taxation requirements, and statutory obligations.
• Monitor emerging legislation and regulatory developments impacting IT associates, contract employees, vendors, and gig workers.
• Provide legal interpretation and compliance guidance to business leaders, HR teams, and operations stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Corporate Legal and external counsels on legal matters and litigation management.

Gig Workforce Governance

• Design and implement governance frameworks for gig and platform workforce engagement.
• Oversee worker classification, contract governance, onboarding compliance, KYC verification, and audit readiness.
• Ensure compliance with the Code on Social Security, 2020 and other applicable regulations governing gig workers.
• Manage risks relating to workforce misclassification, statutory liabilities, wage disputes, and contractor compliance.
• Establish periodic compliance reviews of gig workforce partners and vendors.

Compliance Investigations & Grievance Management

• Lead investigations relating to employee misconduct, code of conduct violations, fraud, ethics concerns, POSH complaints, and workplace grievances.
• Conduct fact-finding exercises, evidence reviews, interviews, and disciplinary proceedings.
• Draft and review warning notices, charge sheets, show cause notices, disciplinary communications, and investigation reports.
• Recommend appropriate corrective and disciplinary actions while ensuring procedural fairness and legal defensibility.

Audit & Risk Management

• Drive internal and external compliance audits across workforce operations.
• Develop compliance dashboards, risk registers, audit trackers, and governance reports.
• Identify compliance gaps and implement corrective and preventive action plans.
• Ensure documentation, evidence management, and audit trails are maintained for regulatory reviews.

Vendor & Contractor Compliance

• Perform due diligence and compliance assessments of service providers, staffing partners, aggregators, and gig workforce vendors.
• Review contractual obligations, SLAs, indemnity clauses, and compliance commitments.
• Monitor adherence to workforce deployment, payment practices, insurance requirements, and statutory obligations.

Policy & Governance

• Develop and strengthen compliance policies, governance frameworks, SOPs, and operating controls.
• Conduct awareness programs on labor law compliance, data privacy, ethics, POSH, and workforce governance.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance organizational compliance maturity.

Stakeholder Management

• Partner with HR, Operations, Legal, Finance, Procurement, Corporate Compliance, Internal Audit, and Business Leaders.
• Engage with government authorities, labor offices, regulatory agencies, and legal consultants when required.
• Present compliance status, regulatory updates, and risk insights to leadership forums.

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Desired Expertise

Legal & Compliance

• Employment and labor laws
• Industrial Relations
• Social Security & Gig Worker Regulations
• Contract Labor Compliance
• POSH and Workplace Investigations
• Ethics & Code of Conduct
• Litigation Management
• Data Privacy & Information Security Compliance

Functional

• Compliance Audits
• Risk Assessment
• Vendor Governance
• Workforce Compliance
• Policy Development
• Investigation Management
• Governance Reporting & Analytics

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Educational Qualifications

• LL.B / LL.M preferred
• Master's in Labour Law / Labour Welfare / Social Work / Human Resources preferred
• Compliance, Ethics, Risk Management or Audit certifications are advantageous.