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Description:

Job Purpose

The HR Manager - Industrial Relations will play a vital role in maintaining harmonious relationships between employees and management, ensuring a productive and positive work environment. The primary will focus on fostering constructive labor-management relationships, resolving disputes, and ensuring compliance with labor laws and regulations. This position requires exceptional interpersonal skills, a deep understanding of labor laws, and the ability to negotiate and mediate to maintain a stable and conducive working environment. This role also requires a deep understanding of human resources, conflict resolution, and effective communication strategies.

Summary of Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop and implement industrial relations policies and procedures
• Mediate disputes between employees and management
• Coordinate the grievance redressal committee and works committee meetings, and follow every grievance to closure.
• Apply the standing orders consistently in matters of discipline, leave, shifts and conduct.
• Issue charge sheets, arrange domestic inquiries, brief presenting officers and draft final orders based on the inquiry findings.
• Ensure compliance with labor laws and regulations
• Facilitate communication between employees and management
• Conduct negotiations for collective bargaining agreements
• Provide guidance and support on employee relations issues
• Develop and deliver training programs on labor relations topics
• Monitor and address labor relations trends and issues
• Investigate and resolve employee grievances
• Maintain records of labor relations activities
• Advise management on best practices for maintaining positive employee relations
• Collaborate with Head HR to align industrial relations strategies with organizational goals
• Advising management on labor relations and employment law compliance
• Mediating disputes and fostering open communication channels between staff
• Designing and delivering training programs on employee relations topics
• Overseeing disciplinary actions and ensuring consistent application of company policies

Required Skills and Competencies 

• Excellent communication skills
• Experience working in a unionized environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential issues with discretion
• Demonstrated ability to mediate and resolve conflicts
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Highly organized and able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Excellent negotiation skills

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