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TCS Mumbai hiring for Legal & Compliance Lead – IT & Gig Workforce !!!!!

Role: Legal & Compliance Lead – IT & Gig Workforce

Experience required: 3 to 5 years

Location:- Thane, Mumbai

Must Have Skills:-

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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