WHAT IS A HR EMPLOYEE RELATIONS ASSISTANT ?
The HR Employee Relations Assistant is adept at handling multiple responsibilities and thrives in direct interactions with employees. Key areas of expertise include employee relations, performance management, policy enforcement, recruitment, and reporting. This position is with a client that offers attractive benefits, career advancement opportunities, and a supportive team within a positive workplace environment.
Need-to-Know Overview of a HR Employee Relations Assistant
1. HR Employee Relations Assistant Duties
- Travel to various locations within the state and surrounding metropolitan cities to perform onboarding, handle employee relation issues, new hire orientation, and first day safety training.
- Responsible for onboarding all new employees by ensuring that all new hire paperwork is complete and sending all new hire paperwork to Shared Services for processing.
- Responsible for ad-hoc reports requested as necessary from management.
- Responsible for assisting with employee changes such as contact info, transfers, dependent changes etc. and sending to Shared Services for processing.
- Provide technical assistance to employees with their various HRIS systems
- Assist with unemployment claims that arise, if necessary.
- Assist Manager with all Leave Administration, in conjunction with Shared Services to include: processing FML, STD and LTD requests; handling all paperwork.
- Assist with facilitating all Workers' Compensation claims processing in absence of Manager.
- Responsible for assisting with the roll-out of annual HR projects such as: annual performance and merit increase review process, as well as benefit open enrollment roll-out.
- Assist in creating and updating job descriptions for all positions.
- Aid in organization, set up of and participation in all social events.
2. HR Employee Relations Assistant Experience and Knowledge
- Associates Degree and 3 years of HR experience
- Prior experience in a retail setting
- Knowledge of HRIS systems
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills.
- Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills are essential.
- Confidentiality & discretion - this role requires 100% confidentiality for all data information and a sense of maturity to be able to handle payroll information & knowledge of employee relation issues without judgment of circumstances.
- Strong PC computer skills with everyday experience working with Microsoft products, especially Outlook and Excel.
- Multi-tasking is absolutely essential for this position. A high energy level in performing projects in conjunction with day-to-day activities.
- Must have a good attitude, excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with diverse personalities while being tactful, mature, and flexible.
- Must have good reasoning abilities and sound judgment
- Must be resourceful, well organized, dependable, efficient, detail oriented, and be adaptable to change
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