People Relations Specialist - 1 Year Project

About the role

Your focus will be to guide and enhance the relationship between the leaders and employees within the US Sales Market. Your role is crucial in fostering a positive work environment, resolving conflicts, and ensuring that employment policies and practices align with legal requirements.

Responsibilities

• Focus on day-to-day people relations activities, supporting the HR Business Line in handling issues of conflict resolution, investigations, and policy interpretation
• Handle escalated investigations and matters where a conflict exists for the HR Business Partner
• Implement plan of new and/or updated H&M Group social policies, guidelines or framework
• Deliver on local people relations plans and priorities aligned with global strategy and priorities
• Act on local legally needed adaptations of policies and standards
• Provide strategic and operational advice to local management and HR Business Line
• Keep up to date on employment law to ensure compliance
• Govern and follow up on compliance for entire Sales Market
• Ensure local grievance process that is in line with the Global grievance policy and handle grievance investigations
• Create a trustful relationship with employee representatives
• Secure that Managers are fully aware of their responsibilities and have a proactive internal dialogue
• Drive risk assessments as a tool to identify hazards in the physical and psychosocial work environment
• Participate in risk assessments to analyze and understand events which might lead to crisis and uncertainty in the organization, e.g., internal controls or geopolitics context
• Secure that crisis is handled in accordance with Our General People Principles
• Expectation to contribute to People Relations Network

Qualifications

• At least two years Employee/People Relations experience (may consider equivalent HR education + ER experience)
• Some knowledge of federal, state, local US employment laws and regulations
• Proven track record in developing, revising, and implementing HR policies and procedures to ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations
• Demonstrated commitment to human rights advocacy within the workplace. Proven experience in designing, implementing, and managing comprehensive occupational health and safety programs

Skills

Proven experience in designing, implementing, and managing comprehensive occupational health and safety programs

Benefits

Compensation: salary range is $ 97,840-122,300 annually

Pay

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Schedule

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Additional Information

Why You’ll Love Working at H&M
We value diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, and disability
We pride ourselves on being a values-driven organization, guided by our 7 unique values that have been part of our success story for over 75 years
You’ll have access to our Colleague Resource Groups (CRGs) to find community and networking opportunities among colleagues
We are an inclusive company where you’re encouraged to be yourself at work
You will have access to a large global talent community, where career growth and aspirations have no limits
We believe in supporting your overall wellbeing and offer comprehensive benefits inclusive of health insurance, wellness and family support programs, company match 401k, paid leave programs, and paid time off, including a community day to serve your local community
You’ll be able to express your personal style with our employee discount at H&M, & Other Stories, and COS