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The New York Times HR Policy & Employee Relations (HRPER) group works with HR Business Partners, company leadership, the Legal team, and additional partners across the organization to create positive employee experiences, develop people-focused and legally compliant policies, and employ fair and objective processes for investigating and addressing employee relations issues.
You will report to the Director of HR Policy & Employee Relations as an essential partner focused on the development, interpretation, and governance of HR/ER procedures, and supporting team operations.
If you’re passionate about enhancing the employee experience and supporting the New York Times mission, we want to hear from you. You will be in a hybrid position where you will work out of our NYC headquarters 3 days per week.
Responsibilities:
- Partner on the end-to-end creation, implementation, and interpretation of HR procedures, using in-depth expertise in relevant legislative and industry trends, legal updates, and best practices.
- Own our HR policy governance process and act as a liaison with HR policy owners.
- Develop tools to help standardize processes and scale the HR Policy function.
- Support employee relations advisory and investigations (e.g, conducting intake interviews).
- Partner with internal experts, including HR Business Partners, Legal, Labor Relations and others in providing Employee Relations solutions.
- Partner with HR subject matter experts to help implement and communicate policy changes to the organization, and act as a liaison with Corporate Communications.
- Provide project management support on HR policy projects.
- Represent our team on projects as a subject matter expert.
- Coordinate people and resources as part of a team to complete projects.
- Conduct policy benchmarking, data collection and best practices analysis.
- Track policy development trends and make suggestions.
- Help collect relevant data to operationalize internal HR/ER processes.
- Experience in GSuite apps - Slides, Sheets and Documents.
- Demonstrated experience rolling out new policies through project management and process improvement.
Basic Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience in a human resources, HR Policy or related position.
- 2+ years of experience with U.S. labor/employment laws and compliance requirements.
- 1+ years of experience working with an HRIS, like Workday.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1+ years of experience with labor relations.
- 1+ years of experience in GSuite apps - Slides, Sheets and Documents.
- Bachelor's Degree, Master's degree or HR professional certification.
The annual base pay range for this role is between $110,000.00 and $130,000.00
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