Employee Relations Coordinator at Tharisa

Role Context

Employee Relations Management

• Drafting legal correspondence to the CCMA, Bargaining Council, Trade Unions and employees.
• Putting together bundles for matters pending arbitration.
• Liasing with external legal counsel on various matters pending before the Labour Court.
• Drafting legal opinions on various ER issues.
• Preparing high-level ER reports for the Operations, Group and Executives.
• Performing ad hoc administrative functions.
• Ensure proper record keeping on various ER engagements including meetings with stakeholders.
• Conduct labour law compliance audits amongst sub-contractors (business partners) to reduce litigation risk on the business.
• Develop and maintain ER case precedent file.
• Update the business on developments around labour law.
• Present ER training workshops.
• Manage legal costs to ensure that they remain within budget.
• Update ER policies and procedures.
• Support the Group on ER matters.

Compliance Management

• Stay up-to-date with South African labour laws, regulations, and industry standards to ensure the company's policies and practices are compliant with relevant legislation.
• Provide guidance and support to employees and management in understanding company policies, procedures and practices, to address queries and concerns related to ER policies and guidelines.
• Review, monitor and maintain all ER and HR systems and procedures, by implementing all elements that are unique to each Business Unit, to ensure that they meet stakeholder expectations, are understood by TM employees, and are compliant with legislation, regulatory requirements and the relevant TM policies.
• Monitor the implementation of legislative, regulatory and business requirements (policies and standards) in all TM projects, to ensure that they comply with the established requirements and provide guidance where shortcoming have been identified.

Resource Management

• Provide input into required changes in resources (financial or non-financial) to enable the achievement of team and/or own objectives.
• Monitor the use of assets and resources within the team and own area of responsibility, by implementing systems and controls, to ensure assets and resources are consistently and appropriately utilised and managed.

Stakeholder Relations

• Communicate with all relevant Departments on issues of the area of speciality. Liaise across the relevant Departments by engaging with the appropriate stakeholders to ensure all stakeholders remain abreast of Departmental objectives, any potential derailers are appropriately managed and duplication of work is avoided.
• Communicate with internal and/or external stakeholders, where required, to achieve work objectives and to maintain relationships.
• Keep all key stakeholders informed of the latest developments and trend relating to ER functions, to ensure their continuous understanding of the principles, labour laws, and regulations within the South African Mining Industry.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade 12/ Matric (NQF4)
• LLB Degree (preferably an admitted attorney).

Job specific experience:

• 2- 5 years working experience in ER or legal practice specialising in employment law.
• Preference will be given to candidates with Mining Industry background.
• Experience representing a company at the CCMA.
• Ability to draft ER related reports and presentations using the full Microsoft suite (i.e., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Experience/Exposure on MS Dynamics F&O, Reporting tools: MS Power BI