WGL - Labor Relations Business Partner

About the role

The Labor Relations Business Partner is responsible for managing and executing labor relations strategy across multiple jurisdictions and union environments. This role owns the company’s labor risk posture and serves as the escalation point for complex, high-risk labor matters with material regulatory, financial, and reputational impact.

Responsibilities

• Support and initiate the labor relations strategy across multiple operating companies, jurisdictions, and union environments.
• Advises senior leaders on labor relations matters, ensuring compliance with labor laws, collective bargaining agreements (CBAs), and resolving complex workplace issues.
• Bridge HR strategy with operational leadership, often serving as an advisor to cross-functional teams.
• Anticipates internal and external labor and regulatory developments and translates them into strategic direction to mitigate enterprise risk.
• Manage, interpret and administer the terms of various collective bargaining agreements and employment policies, providing guidance to managers, HR staff, and employees and ensuring consistent, fair, and compliant application across the organization.
• Represent the organization in grievance meetings, mediations, and arbitrations.
• Manage and oversee the grievance tracking, scheduling, investigating employee concerns, mediating disputes.
• Conduct investigations, create effective investigative reports and resolve high-risk allegations, including interviewing complainants and witnesses.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex, high-risk, or precedent-setting labor matters; collaborating with legal counsel when necessary, reducing legal risk and ensuring compliance.
• Provide support at the bargaining table during labor contract negotiations with unions, including developing negotiation strategies and preparing proposals and counter-proposals aligned with enterprise objectives and risk considerations.
• Maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with discretion while navigating labor relation/ human resource matters.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree Human Resources, Business Administration, Labor Relations, or related field preferred, or 5 years’ experience managing and/or overseeing unionized environment.
• Understanding of labor related laws and regulations and collective bargaining agreements including but not limited to the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), Title VII, ADA, FMLA & state/local laws and ordinances.
• 3-5 years of experience in Labor Relations, Human Resources, Employee Relations and/or Labor Union Executive Board environment.
• Experience working with unions or in a unionized environment.
• Collaborative but also initiative-taking, ability to work autonomously with focus of effectively building collaborative and trusting partnerships and excellent customer service to internal counterparts.
• Ability to integrate labor relations and business operations practices a way that supports and enhances overall business operations.
• Ability to articulate perspective and influence via effective verbal and written communication skills to peers and leaders.
• Strong documentation and case management abilities.
• Facilitate training courses and lead meetings.
• Proficient in technology and use of data management systems. For example: WorkDay, Salesforce, LYTX, Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Zoom, Microsoft Teams.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary range of $95,400 to $138,075 per year, commensurate with experience, education, and skills. In addition, we provide a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Pay

$95,400 to $138,075 per year, commensurate with experience, education, and skills.

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AltaGas

AltaGas is a North American energy infrastructure company with a focus on owning and operating assets that provide affordable energy to our customers. AltaGas assets include Washington Gas/WGL, SEMCO, and Petrogas. Our talented team, nearly 3,000 strong, leverages the strength of our assets and expertise along the energy value chain to connect customers with premier energy solutions – from the well sites of upstream producers to the doorsteps of homes and businesses to new markets around the world. We deliver clean and affordable natural gas to approximately 1.7 million customers’ homes and businesses through regulated natural gas distribution utilities across four jurisdictions in the United States and two regulated natural gas storage utilities in the United States.

To learn more about our mission: https://youtu.be/k1mrKDdsYW8?si=y1k3NOyHxgf4emdL

For Canadian hires: AltaGas hires personnel on the basis of job-related qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to a person's ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, matriculation, physical or mental disabilities, political affiliation, genetic information, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

For U.S. hires: WGL/SEMCO/AltaGas offers a total rewards package that includes competitive pay, incentive bonus plans, holiday pay, 401K matching and a wide array of benefits. These benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage are designed to help you and your family stay healthy. We also have paid time off (PTO) to balance the demands of your work and personal life. Available benefits vary depending upon the specifics of the role.

U.S. affiliates of AltaGas are committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, matriculation, physical or mental disabilities, political affiliation, genetic information, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.