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NYC Health + Hospitals · 18 hours ago

Labor Relations Specialist

Bronx, NY

Contract

Onsite

Mid Level

$100K/yr - $111K/yr

3+ years exp

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the United States, providing essential services to over one million New Yorkers annually. The Labor Relations Specialist will participate in the administration of Labor Relations programs, including contract negotiations, grievance processing, and maintaining relationships with union representatives.

Health CareHome Health CareHospitalMedicalNursing and Residential Care

Responsibilities

Participates in collective bargaining discussions through direct negotiations with unions on noneconomic demands and, in cooperation with New York City Office of Labor Relations, on matters of an economic nature

Prepares progress reports, develops summaries and reports status of negotiations, including trends, likeliness of impasses and resolution of collective bargaining matters

Assists in preparation of Corporation’s position before fact-finding impasse panels

Prepares analysis of impact of union demands on hospital operations and prepares rebuttals and strategies to deal with such, including recommendations for management’s counter demands prior to and during negotiations

Interprets contracts and agreements and Labor Relations Orders dealing with wages, hours, working conditions and all other matters within the purview of the agreement affecting labor relations, employee relations and personnel management activities

Investigates and processes employees’ grievances to be handled at the Corporate level, prepares reports and provides recommendations for their resolution

Serves as Hearing Officer for grievances handled at the Corporate level and represents the Corporation when appealed to City Office of Labor Relations and at arbitration hearings

Meets with Union representatives in Labor-Management meetings to discuss and seek resolution of Corporation system-wide or local issues

Maintains ongoing liaison with Union and Union Representatives

Discusses local hospital issues and their resolution with personnel-labor relations management staff

Maintains routine contact with hospital representatives

Maintains liaison with Office of Labor Relations, Office of Collective Bargaining and other City, State or Federal agencies relating to various labor relations matters

Performs labor relations research for development of labor-management programs, and for preparation of negotiations, and prepares studies and reports in support of programmatic recommendations and conduct of activities of the Office of Labor Relations

Performs related work

Qualification

Labor RelationsContract InterpretationGrievance ProcessingNegotiationBachelor's DegreePublic AdministrationBusiness AdministrationEconomicsLawResearch SkillsCommunicationProblem SolvingTeam Collaboration

Required

Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university in Personnel, Public or Business Administration, Economics, Management, Law or a related discipline

Three (3) years of progressively responsible experience in area of labor relations, including negotiation and administration of agreements of labor relations matters

A combination of training and experience, which is equivalent to the above. Higher-level of education may be substituted for one (1) year of experience, however only education above a Bachelor's level can be counted towards substitution for experience