Employee and Labor Relations Specialist

FYI – For Your Information, Inc. is one of the fastest growing and most successful woman-owned Federal contractors in the country. We have won awards for being a Great Place to Work and continue to make ground-breaking advancements. We focus on career development and promotion – people are the core of everything we do. If you are looking for a career and not just a job, you're in the right place!

FYI – For Your Information, Inc., is a Woman-Owned Small Business GSA schedule vendor that is a premier provider of Human Capital, Training, and Information Technology services.

FYI attributes this capacity to deliver quality services to many factors, including FYI's in-house recruiters, senior HR professionals, corporate administrative staff, and agile, committed management resources. FYI's focus on the national, regional and local requirements of its customers, and a corporate organizational structure with sufficient depth of skills and authority to deploy and manage scalable teams, allows FYI to be responsive to the real-time needs of our Federal clients.

FYI's Benefits/Incentives: What is in it for you?

• Opportunity to work remotely (per contract requirements).
• A knowledgeable, high-achieving, experienced, and fun team.
• A diverse work atmosphere.
• The chance to be part of a rapidly growing company and the next success story.
• Team building and innovation.
• A competitive base salary with a loaded benefits package plus 401K.
• Tuition/Education Assistance
• Personal computer device allowance.
• Pet Insurance.

Responsibilities: 

• Provide Employee Relations (ER) services, advisory and technical, to non-bargaining and bargaining unit employees in the area of Labor Relations (LR) and ER.
• Ensure that proposed adverse or disciplinary actions are technically sound, based on merit, comply with law, regulation, and applicable negotiated procedures.
• Formulate and prepare responses to inquiries from unions, members of Congress, Office of Personnel Management (PM), Agency officials, employees, and other interested parties.
• Review regulations and administrative instructions pertaining to all phases of grievances, appeals, and adverse personnel actions.
• Provide expert advice and guidance concerning Federal laws, executive orders, directives and decisions of OPM and other agencies to management.
• Negotiate and administer labor agreements, providing guidance and consultation to management on a variety of LR matters.
• Respond to inquiries from management and anticipate management needs regarding union rights, employee rights, implications of recent arbitration decision, Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), and Federal LR Authority regulations.
• Prepare final reports and summary analysis of the status of the program.
• Provide advice and guidance to all levels of management concerning leave management matter, sick leave restriction, performance management, medical issues, and mediation to resolve outstanding issues.
• Provide advisory services and advice and guidance to all levels of management concerning ER and labor management and corrective actions, including counseling, disciplinary actions, and adverse actions.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve problems which require the interpretation and adapting of guides which are only partially applicable and where few precedents exist.
• Develop and propose courses of action to resolve problems and issues based on knowledge and interpretation of the Labor-Management Relations Statue, administrative case law, regulations, policies, judgment, and experience.
• Conducts training on discipline, to include employee rights, management rights, employee representative rights, and consideration of substance abuse and dependency.
• Responsible for assignments which require the evaluation of controversial and complex projects or cases, reviewing new or interpreting existing LR policy, providing formal and informal assistance and advice to the LR and ER program.

Requirements:

• Ten (10) years of Federal HR experience, at least four (4) of which must be specialized experience in the area of ELR performing the above tasks.
• College degree preferred
• Require proven administrative skills and experience with HR automated systems.
• Must be capable of completing high-quality work expeditiously under minimal supervision.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.