Employee & Labor Relations Business Partner
The Employee & Labour Relations Business Partner (ERBP) provides consulting and direction regarding employee and labour relations matters to managers and employees throughout the organisation. The ERBP helps ensure legal compliance, and adherence to and consistent application of Apple policies and practices across all lines of business.
Providing support to a diverse range of businesses across Greater China, with a primary focus on Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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.
Coordinating Apple Taiwan’s Sexual Harassment handling committee, and supporting LMC and EWC employee organizations.
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 labour 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 ELR capability development as needed.
- Strong knowledge of and experience with Hong Kong and Taiwan’s labour relations system.
- Strong Cantonese, Mandarin and English communication skills including effective listening, writing and presentation.
- Project management experience.
- Significant hands on experience related to employee and labour relations.
- Experiences coordinating Sexual Harassment handling committee in Taiwan.
- Demonstrable ability to handle multiple priorities, partners and work streams.
- Demonstrable ability to work independently with Apple values aligned decision quality and independent judgement.
- Strong work ethic with a high degree of flexibility.
- Ability to operate in a fast paced environment, requiring ability to quickly summarise issues at stake and practical recommendations to address them, especially with Global/Regional/Country Senior leadership.
- 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 organisation. 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.
- University qualifications in law, business, Human Resources or some other related discipline.
- Travel may be required upon needs.