Employee Relations Specialist (m/f)

Duties

• Provides an integrated employee relations consulting service to the assigned portfolio to ensure sound employee relations, labor peace and stability and that staff related issues are dealt with constructively and appropriately, as well as within the regulations and legislation
• Responsible for ensuring labor relations process compliance (e.g. disciplinary hearings, grievances, redundancies, industrial action, unfair labor practice, transfer of a going concern and legal matters) for the assigned client portfolio
• Understands the ER climate and challenges within the assigned area and the potential impact on the business and proactively addresses these
• Drives relationship and engagement management with key stakeholders (trade unions, management, employees and external communities) to actively manage these relationships and ensure all stakeholders are aligned
• Ascertains and communicates the impact of decisions and actions on wider employee relations, precedent setting, morale and reputational risk
• Proactively educates line management on legislation and policy application to ensure these are applied appropriately in the client portfolio
• Attends appeal hearings, senior level grievances and other employee relations meetings as advisor and to ensure procedural and substantive fairness
• Ensures that disciplinary and incapacity procedures are adhered to
• Ensures employee relations are conducted in accordance with legislation, codes of conduct and company policy
• Ensure compliance with HR guidelines and regulations
• Protection of the interests of both company and the employee and ensures values driven employee relations is fostered
• Drives the employee relations partnership forums for the business and engages with key internal and external stakeholders
• Ensures that rules are applied consistently, there is no selective discipline and unjustified preferential treatment in a workplace
• Always ensures managers are equipped to effectively deal with sensitive employee matters appropriately

Requisites

• University Bachelor's Degree
• 6 years of experience

Notes

• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted