Purpose of Job

• Be accountable to provide necessary support to the management of Employee Relations services and processes in various portfolios (small, big, less or more complex), in compliance with group and regional minimum standards, leveraging HR expert services and transactional services in the region, in order to drive the business agenda, service the business requirements into integrated people solutions, value generation and reduce business risks.

Key Accountabilities

Overseeing the Employee Relations’ landscape across the assigned OME/s of responsibility i.e., –

• Ensure sound labour relations as well as labour peace and stability (promote democratic workplace; eliminate culture of unjustified preferential treatment and selective discipline; promote culture of consistent application of rules; encourage adherence to agreements and policy framework – each side keeping their end of the stick etc.)
• Promote joint problem-solving culture and values driven relations;
• Guide the processes such as disciplinary; grievances; redundancies; work incapacity; transfer of businesses as going concern; industrial actions etc;
• Ensure effective and functional Partnership Forums;
• Drive relationship and engagement management with key stakeholders (trade unions, management and employees) to actively manage these relationships and ensure all stakeholders are aligned.
• Ascertain and communicate the impact of decisions and actions on wider Employee Relations, precedent setting, morale and reputational risk.
• Ensure that line management and HR are duly equipped with relevant ER capabilities as per defined minimum standards. 

Technical oversight i.e., – providing –

• an integrated ER technical support (across OMEs)
• Legally sound groupwide advisory framework; policy framework; ER capacity building; ER stakeholder management standards and approach; Anti-Harassment Office etc.

Formal Education

• University Bachelors Degree in Law (LLB)

Work Experience

• Be an admitted Attorney / Advocate
• Must have practised labour / employment law for 6 to 10 years
• Must have deep understanding of South African Labour Law.
• Must have a good understanding of Labour Dispute Resolution processes in South Africa
• Must have the ability to apply and interpret all labour and employment related legislation
• Must have the ability to provide both written and verbal advise/opinion on labour/employment related matters at all levels pertaining to both Individual & collective labour issues
• Must have the ability to develop, review, interpret labour/employment related policies; agreements and pleadings
• Must have proven knowledge and understanding of the relevant landmark labour / employment case law.