Senior Specialist, Employee Relations – EMEA

Posted 18hrs ago

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Employee Relations Specialist managing compliant employee exits and workplace concerns for Remote’s global employment platform. Advising clients across international jurisdictions while improving lifecycle processes and automation.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage and resolve end-to-end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions.
  • Advise clients on termination, resignation, transfer, employment contract, and redundancy procedures.
  • Lead workforce reduction consultations, administrative hearings, separation and settlement negotiations, and termination outcome meetings.
  • Negotiate positive outcomes in complex terminations while balancing competing stakeholder interests.
  • Coordinate with payroll, legal counsel, government bodies, trade unions, and other stakeholders.
  • Draft, tailor, and administer termination and supplementary documents while maintaining confidential employee records.
  • Process offboarding in Remote’s internal HRIS platform with Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, and Time and Attendance teams.
  • Serve as a subject-matter expert for offboarding inquiries.
  • Guide clients through Employee Relations resources, policies, and processes.
  • Conduct preliminary assessments of workplace concerns and applicable local regulations.
  • Coordinate handling of employee relations matters.
  • Support progressive disciplinary approaches and documentation.
  • Monitor employee relations cases and follow up with stakeholders.
  • Contribute to process improvements, automation, product development, and customer and employee experience initiatives.
  • Report to the Manager Employee Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions.

Requirements:

  • Experience as a HR Advisor or HR Business Partner, with generalist HR competencies and exposure across the employee lifecycle.
  • Proven experience managing voluntary and involuntary exits (terminations) with care, sensitivity and legal compliance.
  • Comprehensive HR support and guidance on employment laws and regulations across various jurisdictions.
  • Ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments, analyze complex HR issues, undertake research, and provide practical solutions.
  • Basic understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline approaches, and workplace investigation fundamentals.
  • Excellent communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills.
  • Business-level (advanced) proficiency in written and spoken English.
  • Aptitude for process automation and optimization.
  • Thorough record-keeping and data integrity awareness.
  • Tech-savvy and able to collaborate asynchronously using evolving systems.
  • Ability to work autonomously and cohesively in an international, fast-paced, asynchronous remote environment.
  • Willingness to work flexible hours as needed.
  • Strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.

Benefits:

  • work from anywhere
  • flexible paid time off
  • flexible working hours (we are async)
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • budget towards co-working spaces, learning and wellness (including gym memberships)
  • mental health support services
  • stock options
  • home office budget & IT equipment
  • life-work balance
  • employee resource groups (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech)
  • interview accommodations upon request