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Senior Specialist Labour Relations Arbitration-CA
- Concord, ON, Canada
Full-time
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- Job type
- Full-time
- Closing date
- Experience
- Bachelor's or Associates Degree in Labour, Industrial Relations, or equivalent, or minimum 5 years of experience working in a rail or industrial environment
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
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Job Summary
The incumbent is responsible for collaborating with leaders to identify and prepare arguments to defend the company's position on Labour Relations (LR) issues. The role establishes, maintains, and develops a solid working relationship with union representatives, colleagues, and clients to promote a co-operative and effective LR climate.
Main Responsibilities
The role has standard working conditions in an office environment with a regular workweek from Monday to Friday and is eligible to participate in CN's hybrid work model. The role involves managing priorities and delivering work within established timelines, with support from the team to ensure sustainable and effective workload management. The role requires minimal travel (10%) within Canada and the United States (U.S.).
Experience
Labour Relations
The incumbent is responsible for collaborating with leaders to identify and prepare arguments to defend the company's position on Labour Relations (LR) issues. The role establishes, maintains, and develops a solid working relationship with union representatives, colleagues, and clients to promote a co-operative and effective LR climate.
Main Responsibilities
- Support the maintenance of good working relationships with union representatives to promote a co-operative and effective labour relations climate
- Attend union and management meetings, record decisions and conduct follow ups to ensure appropriate actions are taken
- Input and update grievance records in a grievance management system
- Utilize the grievance management system to pull trend reports and analyze data
- Identify grievance trends and work with leaders on action plans to reduce grievances
- Coach Front Line Supervisors (FLS) and middle Managers on key collective agreement issues, responding to grievances, and other LR concerns
- Support FLS on employee issues, including collective agreement interpretation, discipline, attendance management, application of the Canada Labour Code and other employer obligations, such as the duty to accommodate
- Assist the LR Manager with preparing for joint conference or labour-management meetings
- Hold meetings with union representatives to resolve grievances before proceeding to arbitration
- Prepare and present grievances at arbitration
The role has standard working conditions in an office environment with a regular workweek from Monday to Friday and is eligible to participate in CN's hybrid work model. The role involves managing priorities and delivering work within established timelines, with support from the team to ensure sustainable and effective workload management. The role requires minimal travel (10%) within Canada and the United States (U.S.).
Experience
Labour Relations
- Minimum 2 years of labour relations experience in a unionized environment, or equivalent
- Experience interpreting and applying collective agreements and relevant federal employment legislation
- Experience building strong and positive relationships with stakeholders
- Candidates with an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience will be considered
- Bachelor's or Associates Degree in Labour, Industrial Relations, or equivalent, or minimum 5 years of experience working in a rail or industrial environment
- Candidates with equivalent practical experience, education, or training will be considered
- We Care About Each Other
- We Strive for Excellence
- We Succeed Together
- We Lead Responsibly
- Influence
- Stakeholder management
- Build trust
- Listening
- Interpersonal flexibility
- Ability to prepare consolidated material to be presented to a third party
- Ability to assess and analyze business issues and make recommendations
- Ability to understand and apply key concepts and best practices in LR
- Strong computer skills
- Excellent organizational and analytical skills
- Fluently bilingual, both written and verbal (English, French)
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Responsibilities
Build effective working relationships with union representatives and company leaders, manage grievance records and trends, and coach supervisors and managers on collective agreements and labour relations matters. Prepare and present grievances at arbitration, support labour-management meetings, and help develop actions to reduce grievances.
Requirements
Requires at least two years of labour relations experience in a unionized environment or equivalent, experience applying collective agreements and relevant federal employment legislation, and strong stakeholder relationships. Requires a bachelor's or associate degree in labour or industrial relations, or at least five years of experience in a rail or industrial environment; equivalent practical experience may be considered, and fluency in written and spoken English and French is required.
Skills
- Labour Relations
- Arbitration
- Collective Agreement Interpretation
- Grievance Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Relationship Building
- Conflict Resolution
- Coaching
- Data Analysis
- Trend Analysis
- Business Analysis
- Recommendation Development
- Meeting Facilitation
- Organizational Skills
- Analytical Skills
- English-French Bilingual Communication
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- Human Resources
- Legal
- Transportation
- Management & Leadership
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Labour Relations
- Arbitration
- Unionized Environment
- Collective Agreements
- Grievance Management System
- Grievance Records
- Grievance Trend Reports
- Grievance Resolution
- Labour-Management Meetings
- Union Representatives
- Canada Labour Code
- Duty to Accommodate
- Discipline
- Attendance Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Business Analysis
- Data Analysis
- Action Plans
- English
- French
- Rail Transportation
- Hybrid Work Model