Employee Relations Specialist  – DOERSPEC

Our client in the retail industry based in Cape Town are currently seeking the skills of an Employee Relations Specialist. This role requires an individual who has previous employee and labour relations experience and skills that enables the individual to work on a broad spectrum of employee relations and labour law matters

 Main job function 

Investigate all ER matters, composing investigation reports and proposing remedial action based on investigation findings.

• To assist and support Line Management in dealing with poor performance and misconduct issues by giving advice on how best to deal with employment related issues, preparing and approving charges.
• Assisting with preparation of disciplinary hearing and supporting Chairpersons with letters of sanction and findings.
• Assisting Line Managers with preparation for CCMA cases
• Providing guidance and advice on Department of Employment and Labour inspections, relating to BCEA, OHSA etc.
• Contributing to the development of IR related guidelines, policies and procedures.
• Assist and collaborate on various ER projects.
• Managing the anonymous whistleblower process in accordance with the relevant legislations.
• Weekly/quarterly and annual reporting on statistics and trends.

 Qualifications 

Law/HR/IR Qualification

 Criteria 

Experience in labour law and employee and labour relations

Law qualification and Admitted Attorney a bonus

CCMA experience

Law firm experience overseeing labour law aspects for clients a bonus

Management experience

Qualification in HR/IR a bonus

 A Consultant will be in touch if you are shortlisted for the position. Please consider your application unsuccessful should you not have been contacted within 2 weeks. We will keep your CV on our database and contact you should you match the criteria of any other vacancies.