Employee Relations Specialist

🔥 7 hours ago

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501 - 1000 employees

HR Tech • SaaS • Enterprise

Remote is a global HR platform that simplifies the process of hiring, onboarding, managing, and paying employees and contractors worldwide. It offers comprehensive solutions for recruitment, payroll management, contractor management, and compliance. The platform supports businesses in handling HR tasks seamlessly and efficiently, ensuring fast and compliant payouts, providing employer of record services, and facilitating employee benefits and equity offerings. Additionally, Remote integrates with various HR systems, allowing for a flexible, scalable, and reliable solution for businesses looking to expand globally.

📋 Description

• Manage and resolve end-to-end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions, prioritizing a superior offboarding experience for Remote's clients and their employees. • Provide sound guidance and manage clients' requests on various HR matters, including but not limited to termination, resignation and transfer procedures, employment contracts, and redundancy processes, ensuring legal compliance and best practices. • Lead and facilitate meetings with clients and external employees, including but not limited to workforce reduction consultation meetings, administrative hearings, negotiations in separations and settlements, providing guidance on terminations, and delivering termination outcomes. • Influence and negotiate positive outcomes in complex terminations, balancing multiple stakeholders with competing interests. • Liaise with and coordinate various internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance in offboarding activities and audits, including but not limited to payroll, legal counsel, government bodies, and trade unions. • Draft, tailor and administer all termination and supplementary documents with accuracy and attention to detail, ensuring employee records are maintained with strict adherence to and confidentiality regulations. • Process offboarding on Remote's internal HRIS platform, collaborating with various internal stakeholders, such as Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, Time and Attendance, amongst other verticals, to ensure all aspects of the employee exit are administered correctly and promptly. • Be the subject-matter expert and respond to internal and external queries on all offboarding matters in conjunction with Lifecycle's internal stakeholders. • Navigate clients through Remote's Employee Relations resources and guides, helping them understand applicable policies and processes. • Conduct preliminary assessment of workplace concerns, identifying key facts and applicable local regulations. • Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure appropriate handling of employee relations matters. • Support clients in understanding progressive disciplinary approaches and documentation requirements. • Monitor ongoing employee relations cases, ensuring timely follow-up and coordination with relevant stakeholders. • Actively identify opportunities for and contribute to process improvements, automation, product development and overall customer and employee experience through the offboarding and employee relations processes.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience as a HR Advisor or HR Business Partner, with generalist HR competencies and exposure across the employee lifecycle. • Proven experience with a strong background in managing voluntary and involuntary exits (terminations) with care, sensitivity and legal compliance; and providing comprehensive HR support and guidance on employment laws and regulations, spanning various jurisdictions. • Ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments, analyze complex HR issues, undertake research, provide practical solutions and effectively communicate recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders when operating in ambiguous and unfamiliar environments. • Basic understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline approaches, and workplace investigation fundamentals. • Excellent communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills, with the ability to confidently lead difficult conversations to a positive outcome, often where parties have conflicting interests, maintaining profe