Korea Employee & Labour Relations Business Partner
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The Employee & Labor Relations Business Partner (ERBP) provides consulting and direction regarding employee and labor relations matters to managers and employees throughout the organization. The ERBP helps ensure legal compliance, and adherence to and consistent application of Apple policies and practices across all lines of business.
- Applying Apple values to support leaders and People team colleagues to resolve people challenges, including performance management, policy interpretation, business conduct issues, and terminations.
- Conducting independent and timely investigations into alleged workplace misconduct and policy breaches, including interviewing employees, creating concise investigation reports, making recommendations to leadership and tracking cases in the Apple management system.
- Experience dealing with Korea Labor market, Labor relations internally and externally.
- Developing training and local policies, when applicable, and communicating and implementing company-wide programs, policies, and procedures.
- Coordinating and leading responses to government audits, information requests and inspections.
- Identifying and supporting development of strategy to mitigate labor relations risks including monitoring the external environment.
- Using metrics with key stakeholders to highlight trends and developing strategies to cultivate positive employee relations in the business and to mitigate risk.
- Maintaining accurate case entry practices in ER case management systems.
- Supporting development and the execution of any ELR projects/programs including ER capability development as needed.
- 5+ years HR experience related to employee relations and Labor relations
- Demonstrable ability to handle multiple priorities, partners and work streams across market
- Demonstrable ability to work independently with extraordinary decision quality and independent judgement
- Demonstrable ability to demonstrate command skills and influence others
- Ability to cultivate effective partnership and collaboration with business leadership and Talent Team peers in the organization
- Extraordinary communication skills including effective listening, writing and presentation
- Knowledge of Korean labour laws and practices
- Experience working with the Korea Labour Office
- Conversational and written proficiency in Korean and English
- Good work ethic with a high degree of flexibility
- Ability to maintain a positive attitude in a dynamic and fast paced work environment
- Self starter with innovation, integrity and attention to details
- Very strong partnership skills. Can connect with, and is open to connecting with, people at all levels of the organization. Can cut through hierarchy, brings a very egalitarian and democratic perspective to the work. Treats everyone respectfully.
- Approaches work with a partnership and problem solving mindset.
- Experience in a global firm, ideally with headquarters in the US.
- Travel may be required upon need
- University qualification in law, business, or some other related field is preferred
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