Senior Specialist, Employee Relations, EMEA
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Job Description
Employee Relations Specialist managing compliant employee exits and workplace concerns for Remote’s global employment platform. Advising clients across international jurisdictions and improving lifecycle operations.
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, termination guidance and 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 to ensure compliant offboarding and audits.
- 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 subject-matter expert for internal and external offboarding queries.
- Guide clients through Employee Relations resources, policies and processes.
- Conduct preliminary assessments of workplace concerns and identify applicable local regulations.
- Coordinate handling of employee relations matters and support progressive discipline documentation.
- Monitor employee relations cases and ensure timely follow-up.
- 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.
- Experience providing comprehensive HR support and guidance on employment laws and regulations across various jurisdictions.
- Ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments, analyze complex HR issues, conduct research, provide practical solutions and communicate recommendations.
- 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; additional languages are a plus.
- Aptitude for process innovation, optimization, automation and best practices.
- Operational efficiency, thorough record-keeping and data integrity.
- Tech-savvy and able to collaborate asynchronously using evolving systems.
- Ability to work autonomously and cohesively in an international, fast-paced, asynchronous remote environment with multiple priorities.
- Willingness to work flexible hours as needed.
- Proactive and self-motivated with ownership and accountability.
- 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
- Equal employment opportunity and employee resource groups (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech)
- Accommodation support during interviews and beyond












