🕒 7 days ago
Oversee employee relations and HR programs, including labor compliance, grievance processes, performance initiatives, and employee lifecycle support, while advising employees and collaborating with legal teams.
Labor Relations Specialist
🕒 4 days ago
Labor RelationsCollective BargainingLabor Agreement InterpretationPublic-sector Labor Research
📜 Description
- Review labor agreements, HR policies, and management priorities to identify issues requiring attention.
- Research comparable public-sector labor practices and compensation provisions for negotiation planning.
- Help develop bargaining priorities, issue summaries, and practical options.
- Assess the operational and financial implications of proposed changes to wages, benefits, and working conditions.
- Prepare communication materials for management discussions with employee representatives.
- Document recommendations and follow-up actions, protect sensitive personnel information, and coordinate with HR leadership and legal counsel.
🛠️ Requirements
- Experience advising public-sector employers on labor relations or collective bargaining matters.
- Ability to interpret labor agreements and assess the implications of proposed changes.
- Experience researching comparable labor provisions and preparing management briefing materials.
- Ability to communicate clearly, exercise sound judgment and handle sensitive employee information.
- Experience supporting municipal collective bargaining in California.
- Experience costing wage-and-benefit proposals and coordinating with HR, finance and legal teams.
Full job description
AlphaGov delivers public-sector consulting for cities, counties, school systems, special districts, utilities, and related agencies. Our work spans classification and compensation, organizational and operational studies, research and program evaluation, economic and workforce analysis, surveys and community research, and applied data and infrastructure research.
AlphaGov is hiring a Labor Relations Specialist to support municipal HR and management teams in collective bargaining and employee relations. You will analyze labor provisions, prepare decision materials and help leaders assess the operational and financial implications of bargaining options.
What you’ll do
- Review labor agreements, HR policies and management priorities to organize the issues requiring attention.
- Research comparable public-sector labor practices and compensation provisions to inform negotiation planning.
- Help management develop bargaining priorities, issue summaries and practical options.
- Analyze proposed changes to wages, benefits and working conditions and explain their operational and financial implications.
- Support clear communication and preparation materials for management discussions with employee representatives.
- Document recommendations, discussion outcomes and follow-up actions while protecting sensitive personnel information.
- Coordinate with HR leadership and designated legal counsel so labor-relations advice stays aligned with policy and applicable requirements.
Apply to be considered.
Requirements
Required
- Experience advising public-sector employers on labor relations or collective bargaining matters.
- Ability to interpret labor agreements and assess the implications of proposed changes.
- Experience researching comparable labor provisions and preparing management briefing materials.
- Ability to communicate clearly, exercise sound judgment and handle sensitive employee information.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting municipal collective bargaining in California.
- Experience costing wage-and-benefit proposals and coordinating with HR, finance and legal teams.
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