Employee Relations Manager

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Manage industrial relations with trade unions, ensuring smooth wage negotiations and settlements.
• Oversee labour contracts, including LTS (Long Term Service) agreements, to maintain a positive workforce environment.
• This includes overseeing and negotiating labour contracts, resolving labour disputes, creating, and implementing L&ER policies, and providing guidance and training to managers and supervisors.
• Coordinate union management activities, handling grievances and resolving conflicts in accordance with company policies.
• Liaising with various Government Authorities like Revenue, Police, Judicial, EB, Labour, PF and ESI Department for filing returns, obtaining approvals / clearances.
• Attending Labour Court, Industrial Tribunals, Case hearings in PF & ESI, & Conciliation meetings; following up the court cases.
• Handling issuance of warning letters, show cause notice, for absenteeism, leave overstay, negligence as well as charge sheet for the misconduct.
• Develop and maintain an expertise on various working conditions in similar organizations, trends, jurisprudence, etc. by keeping up to date on labour relations literature, developing a network and participating in various interdepartmental/agency committees.
• Ensure compliance with IR regulations, implementing effective strategies for employee engagement and retention.

Job Requirements :

• 14-20 years of experience in industrial relations, preferably in the manufacturing industry.
• Strong knowledge of labor laws, Union, LTS, IR regulations, and collective bargaining practices.
• Proven track record in managing complex wage negotiations and settlements.