Summary

The Employee & Labour Relations Business Partner (ELR BP) provides consulting and direction regarding employee and labour relations matters to managers and employees throughout the organisation. The ELR BP helps ensure legal compliance, and adherence to and consistent application of Apple policies and practices across all lines of business.

Description

Description

Providing support to a diverse range of businesses across China.

Applying Apple values to support leaders and People team colleagues to resolve people challenges, including performance management, policy interpretation, business conduct issues, and terminations.

Conducting independent and timely investigations into alleged workplace misconduct and policy breaches, including interviewing employees, creating concise investigation reports, making recommendations to leadership and tracking cases in the Apple management system.

Supporting ERC employee organizations.

Coordinating and leading responses to government audits, information requests and inspections.

Using metrics with key stakeholders to highlight trends and developing strategies to cultivate positive employee relations in the business and to mitigate risk.

Maintaining accurate case entry practices in ER case management systems.

Supporting development and the execution of any ELR projects/programs including ELR capability development as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of and experience with China’s labour relations system.
• Strong Mandarin and English communication skills including effective listening, writing and presentation.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Project management experience.
• Significant hands on experience related to employee relations.
• Demonstrable ability to handle multiple priorities, partners and work streams.
• Demonstrable ability to work independently with Apple values aligned decision quality and independent judgement.
• Strong work ethic with a high degree of flexibility.
• Ability to operate in a fast paced environment, requiring ability to quickly summarise issues at stake and practical recommendations to address them.
• Self starter with innovation, integrity and attention to details.
• Very strong partnership skills. Can connect with, and is open to connecting with, people at all levels of the organisation. Can cut through hierarchy, brings a very egalitarian and democratic perspective to the work. Treats everyone respectfully.
• Approaches work with a partnership and problem solving mindset.
• University qualifications in law, business, Human Resources or some other related discipline.
• Travel may be required upon needs.
  
  

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity, and thus we treat all applicants fairly and equally. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.