Labor Relations Business Partner

Majestic Care is looking for a Labor Relations Business Partner to join our teams’ mission and believe in our core values supporting our communities in Northern Indiana & Michigan.

Our mission:
Through the hearts of our Care Team Members, we provide excellent healthcare to those we serve.

• L - Listening
• E - Empathy
• A - Accountability
• D - Decisiveness

This is how we create a culture to LEAD with Love.

As a strategic partner, the Labor Relations Business Partner aligns business objectives with care team members and management in designated regions with minimum supervision. The Labor Relations Business Partner serves as a consultant to management and care team members on Human Resource and Labor Relations issues, as well as an integrator to the Majestic HR division to ensure connections for seamless, effective HR services.

This consultation and integration will include complex/sensitive care team member relations support, job definition, performance management, change management, strong project planning skills, and labor relations management. Communicating needs proactively with HR and operations leaders, the labor relations business partner seeks to partner in the development of integrated solutions. The Labor Relations Business Partner must effectively communicate and present to high-level leadership.

The Labor Relations Business Partner maintains an effective level of business literacy about financial position, mid-range plans, culture, and its competition.

• Manage and resolve complex care team member relations and labor relations issues.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal and contractual requirements related to day-to-day management of care team members, reducing legal risks, and ensuring regulatory compliance; partnering with legal and other departments when required.
• Provide guidance to leaders and care team members to improve work relationships, build morale, increase productivity, and retention.
• Consult with leadership providing HR and labor relations guidance and interpretation on policies and procedures.
• Provide day-to-day performance management guidance to facility leaders and facility HR members (coaching, counseling, corrective actions, career development).
• Provide guidance and input on business unit restructures and workforce planning.
• Partner with the leadership team to assure cultural alignment.
• Advise management team in defining and identifying key measures and performance targets.
• Develop solutions to critical business issues and present alternatives to management.
• Identify workforce training needs within the region by partnering with key stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain job descriptions.
• Support succession planning initiatives across the region.
• Oversee labor relations activities, including contract negotiations, grievance resolution, and maintaining positive union relationships.

• Partner with key stakeholders to develop solutions, programs, and policies.
• Partner with home office key stakeholders to deliver aligned HR practices that drive specific business unit-focused solutions.
• Partner with facility HR and leadership to ensure new hire orientation and onboarding needs are being met.
• Collaborate with labor relations specialists to ensure consistent and effective labor relations practices across the organization.

• Responsible for facilitating process innovation, strategic planning, competitive analysis, and other HR initiatives.
• Act as the HR Project Lead to ensure successful implementation of new business or HR solutions within their region.
• Responsible for completion of required project deliverables.
• Lead multiple, cross-functional and/or cross-departmental projects and initiatives.
• Communicate project status to sponsors and stakeholders.

Oversee projects related to labor relations, including contract negotiations and implementation of labor agreements

• Ensure efficient workflow within the HR team by coordinating tasks, setting priorities, and managing resources.
• Develop and implement processes to improve HR service delivery and operational efficiency.
• Monitor and evaluate the…