Labour and Employee Relations Specialist

2 weeks ago

Old Toronto, Canada Torstar Corporation Full time

Torstar Corporation is a progressive media organisation with a rich history in newspapers and a strong commitment to digital innovation. Our vision for success is driven by a customer-centric approach, journalistic excellence, and a culture that is selfless, focused, agile, collaborative, and results-driven.

We strive to be a leader in building and cultivating an employee community framed around fairness, support, and opportunity. We believe that what makes us different, makes a difference. As a team, the diversity of our backgrounds, interests, and experiences enriches our work and our workplaces. We welcome all and strive for an inclusive culture that allows individual growth and shared success.

Job Description

Reporting to Vice President, People and Culture, the Labour and Employee Relations Manager is responsible for developing a labour management environment that fosters a trust-based and collaborative relationship with the unions. This relationship enhances Torstar's ability to drive innovation and improvement in organisational performance. The incumbent will facilitate and support the implementation of labour and employee relations' strategies by providing expertise to assigned leadership teams to translate their business objectives into strategic talent plans to resolve complex HR challenges. The initial client assignment will be Editorial teams across the Torstar publications. This role is a hybrid with the corporate office located at 8 Spadina Ave, Toronto, ON.

Key Responsibility Areas

  • Provide proactive and strategic advice and counsel to leadership teams on various employee issues, including managing performance and productivity issues, high absenteeism, and disability management.
  • Conduct strategic analysis of absenteeism trends, recommend education or mitigation strategies, facilitate and manage disability claims process including supporting employee return to work plans and accommodation arrangements.
  • Provide expertise on issues related to the interpretation and management of collective agreements, grievances, arbitrations, and general labour relations.
  • Manage and coordinate Labour Management Committee meetings, and ensure timely follow up of agreed to action items.
  • Lead assigned employee investigations as required.
  • Educate client groups to ensure they have a good understanding of the collective agreement through informal discussions and formal seminars.
  • Prepare mandate, draft provisions and be the advisor and/or first chair in the collective bargaining agreement negotiations.
  • Coach senior leaders and managers to improve/enhance their leadership effectiveness and provide counsel and continuous feedback to drive a high performing culture.
  • Partner with HR colleagues to implement proactive employee engagement strategies, programs, and plans to drive business results and employee value proposition.
  • Manage the talent review process and partner with leaders to create measurable action plans to develop and grow talent.
  • Strengthen the organisational capabilities by challenging the status quo to achieve a high performing HR function.
  • Represent Torstar both internally and externally, role model organisational values, and foster collaborative and accountable relationships.
  • Identify cross-functional challenges and opportunities and ensure effective and successful value-added solutions that maximise outcomes.

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