Employee Relations (Litigation & Compliance) Manager (North West) at Tharisa

Operational Management

• Implement the Group ER strategy.
• Update ER policies and procedures.
• ER capacity building.
• Supporting the Senior Manager Human Resources with operational on day-to-day ER issues.
• Strikes and lockouts management.
• Litigation / Represent the Company at the CCMA.
• Drafting formal communique on behalf of the ER Department.
• Weekly and monthly reports.
• Sub-Contractor (Business Partners) management on ER issues.
• Serve in various stakeholder engagement forums (Employment Equity, Skills Development Forum, Health & Safety, Future Forum).
• Chair the incapacity consultative committee.
• Chair the Union-Management meeting.

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 and reduce ER risk.
• Check relevant case law/studies are communicated in advance to management to enable the team to take a pro-active stance when addressing ER matters.

Financial Management

• Analyse all relevant Department data and report on Departmental trends and operating requirements so as to determine funding requirements for the financial year.
• Monitor short-term Departmental budgets by scrutinising and aligning spend within the Department, to support and drive effective and efficient functioning within budgetary constraints.
• Monitor Departmental expenditure against budget allocations, requesting appropriate reallocation as required, to manage the prevention of unnecessary spend.
• Comply with all financial, Supply Chain Management (SCM) and other TM regulations and policies by facilitating the right actions, to reduce financial risk in the Department.
• Manage incapacity settlements, including those due to ill-health/injury as well as poor performance, by following the LRA’s recommended steps for an incapacity counselling process, ensuring this is a participative and interactive process. When necessary, manage incapacity exit hearings.

People Management

• Create and maintain a conducive work environment by appropriately applying Human Resources policies and procedures to ensure optimum performance is realised for the benefit of the Department and, by extension, the organisation.
• Lead the team according to TM’s leadership principles and values throughout the entire employee life cycle (performance management, reward etc) to ensure, inter alia, a high-performance culture.
• Collaborate with Human Resources (HR) and management teams to implement performance management processes, ensuring fairness and consistency in performance evaluations.
• Identify training needs related to ER and collaborate with the Learning and Development (L&D) team to develop and deliver relevant workshops or sessions, so as the address the required training needs of the Tharisa Workforce.
• Promote a positive workplace culture that values diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities for all employees, so as to ensure that all employees feel valued and accommodated with TM.
• Upskill the ER team, ensuring they are equipped both with the knowledge and skill to make representations at the CCMA.

Stakeholder Relations

• Stakeholder relations management with NUM, AMCU or other recognized trade unions.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure information, advice or opinions on relevant matters is made available and/or communicated with all relevant stakeholders, to manage expectations and timelines.
• Utilise opportunities presented to enhance the relationship between management, unions and employees, and implement processes to maximise a collaborative working relationship.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade 12 (NQF4)
• LLB Degree or bachelor’s degree (NQF7) or equivalent in Employee Relations and Labour Law

Job-specific experience:

• Minimum of 8-10 years Human Resources or Employee Relations experience, of which at least five (5) years should be within the Mining Industry at management level
• Ability to work with the full Microsoft suite (i.e., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Experience/Exposure on MS Dynamics F&O, Reporting tools: MS Power BI