Description:

Purpose of the Position (Short Summary of the Role):

An Industrial Relations specialist serves as a crucial link between the workforce and the management. He has to be instrumental on fostering constructive labor-management relationships, resolving disputes, and ensuring compliance with labor laws and regulations.

- Monitor planning and execution of Team Members and flexible manpower recruitment and managing & ensuring overall manpower as per business requirement

- Attending various union management meeting like ERC and addressing the employee relation trends & issue from time to time.

- Provide guidance and support on employee relation issues.

- Disciplinary action proceedings based on complaints received from shops and also based on discipline not followed while working on shop floor.

- Recruitment of ITI Trainee or relevant category candidate as and when required.

- Be a part of productivity workshop on some specific occasion to move out surplus team members or contractual to some other shop.

- Implementation of wage settlement and agreed processes like variable pay documentation etc.

- Engaging with trade unions to define job roles, responsibilities, and avoid potential conflicts.

- Discussing job classifications and wage structures with workers' representatives.

- Investigate and resolve employee grievances.

- Apprentices recruitment and ensure availability of apprentice as per defriend number.

- Attending weekly hiring meeting and coordination and informing respective stakeholder for completing activities at their part.

- Ensuring Smooth & healthy Work environment in the organization

- Conceptualizing & Driving employee engagement activities & Rewards and Recognition initiatives

- Day to day Interacting with Unionized workforce for different issues and addressing the Queries of Team members on timely basis.

- Managing grievances and disputes involving Team Members, staff and contractual manpower and ensuring prompt and fair resolutions

- Flexible Contract manpower management across factory.

- Preparation of various Notices and informing unions on timely basis.

- Coordinate in between CSN Union and Pune union for Covid Benefit Fund meeting and closing the points in it.

Authority:

- Acting as the first point of contact for employee grievances and disciplinary actions.

- Liaising with apprentice advisors and various auditors.

- Advising the management on policy changes affecting industrial relations.

- Issuing warnings, suspensions, and termination recommendations for misconduct Ensuring fair domestic inquiry proceedings before any disciplinary action.

- Ensuring adherence to Industrial Disputes Act, Factories Act, Minimum Wages Act, and other labor laws.

Key Responsibilities &Tasks:

Skills Required:

Critical, Technical & Behavioral Skills (As required for the role)

- Negotiation & Analytical skills & Team Player

- Communication ,Interpersonal & convincing Skills

- Organizing and Planning Skills

- Stress Management and Multitasking

- People Management

- Conflict Management

- Working Knowledge of Excel

- Presentation Skills

Key Responsibilities &Tasks:

Description:

Flexible manpower Recruitment and Apprentices Engagement (30%) :-

- Recruitment of flexible workforce as per company plan while maintaining production efficiency, and adhering labor law requirements.

- Engaging Apprentices with the company and doing time to time compliance as per Apprentices Act, 1961 in India.

Industrial Relation (20%) :

- Ensuring Discipline on the shop floor and preparing and issuing letter of Indiscipline to Team Members.

- Preparing data for monthly and annual Variable Pay activities with individual Shop and implementing it.

Ensure smooth relation with Union:

- Organizing employee communication meetings & timely redressal of grievances/concerns to achieve employee satisfaction.

- Collection of Data and consolidating the same for Various Companies to understand the Current Practices introduced

Employee Engagement Initiative (10%):

- Conceptualize & Drive Various initiatives for Employee Engagement activities like Sports Tournament, Festival Celebration, Meeting with HOD Etc.

- Connecting and Counselling of Employees through dialogues & informal meet.

- Responsible to drive Rewards and recognition activities in the plant like employee of the year, Long service award.

Employee Relations Committee meeting (10%):

- Acting as a bridge between employees and management.

- Gathering employee input on workplace changes.

- Discussing company strategies and their impact on employees.

- Addressing workplace conflicts

- Managing employee complaints and finding out appropriate solutions in coordination with respective stakeholders.

Discipline in the Factory (20%):

- Maintaining cordial relationship with employees.

- Acting as a bridge between Management and employees for different types of initiatives and for timely communications.

- Dealing with indiscipline cases on shop and taking disciplinary actions as per Certified Standing Orders of the company such as, Counselling, Advisory, Warning, Suspension or Conducting Enquiry etc.

- Representing company in the Labor Court or Industrial Tribunal for various disputes and court cases.

Liaisoning and Industrial Relations Audits (10%) :

- Liaisoning involves maintaining smooth communication and coordination between the company, government authorities, labor unions, and other stakeholders.

- Preparing and attending various IR audits such as ISO, QMS and various audits of Volkswagen Group of effectiveness of workplace relations, compliance with labor laws etc.