Senior Specialist, Employee Relations
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Senior Employee Relations Specialist guiding compliant employee exits and workplace support. Helping Remote’s global HR platform serve international teams across 80+ countries.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and resolve end-to-end employee exits across multiple international jurisdictions.
- Advise clients on termination, resignation, transfer, employment contract, and redundancy procedures, ensuring legal compliance and best practices.
- Lead workforce reduction consultations, administrative hearings, separation and settlement negotiations, termination guidance, and delivery of termination outcomes.
- Influence and negotiate positive outcomes in complex terminations while balancing competing stakeholder interests.
- Coordinate with payroll, legal counsel, government bodies, trade unions, Customer Success, Legal, Payroll, Benefits, and Time and Attendance stakeholders.
- Draft, tailor, and administer termination and supplementary documents while maintaining confidential employee records.
- Process offboarding through Remote’s internal HRIS platform.
- 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 disciplinary 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, as part of the Lifecycle, Employee Relations & Transitions team.
Requirements:
- Experience as a HR Advisor or HR Business Partner, with generalist HR competencies and exposure across the employee lifecycle.
- Proven experience with a strong background in managing voluntary and involuntary exits (terminations) with care, sensitivity and legal compliance; and providing comprehensive HR support and guidance on employment laws and regulations, spanning various jurisdictions.
- Ability to interpret and apply industrial instruments, analyze complex HR issues, undertake research, provide practical solutions and effectively communicate recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders when operating in ambiguous and unfamiliar environments.
- Basic understanding of employee relations principles, progressive discipline approaches, and workplace investigation fundamentals.
- Excellent communication, influencing, conflict management, and negotiation skills, with the ability to confidently lead difficult conversations to a positive outcome, often where parties have conflicting interests, maintaining professionalism and strict confidentiality.
- Business-level (advanced) proficiency in written and spoken English, with additional languages considered a plus.
- Aptitude and appetite to innovate and optimize processes, continuously identifying and implementing opportunities for automation and championing best practices.
- Efficiency in operations, with an awareness of the importance of thorough record-keeping and data integrity.
- Tech-savvy, with the ability to successfully collaborate asynchronously on various tools, and adapt to new and evolving systems.
- Ability to work autonomously and cohesively in an international team in a fast-paced, asynchronous, remote environment with multiple priorities; willingness to work flexible hours as needed.
- Proactive and self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.
- Submit application and CV in English.
- Successful completion of prior employment verification check.
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 and flexibility to plan your schedule around your life
- employee resource groups (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech)
- accommodation support during interviews and beyond
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