The Employee & Labor Relations staff serves as advisors on labor and employee relations issues including:

• Negotiate collective bargaining agreements.

• Interpret and administer personnel policies and collective bargaining agreements.

• Provide disciplinary process consultation.

• Provide crisis & threat management.

• Manage complaints, disciplinary issues & resolutions.

• Conduct fact-finding investigations.

• Coordinate criminal investigations.

• Assist in investigating harassment/discriminatory complaints.

• Manage employee grievance process.

• Attend termination & suspension meetings.

• Attend unemployment claims/compensation hearings.

• Manage performance improvement plans.

• Coordinate, review & train in FMLA compliance

• Serve as subject matter expert for training.

• Provide supervisory training on policies, employee management and performance management process.

• Notify employees of training opportunities and conduct training on various compliance issues.

• Coordinate reduction in force planning.

• Coordinate seniority and bumping rights.

• Coordinate layoffs.

• Administration of Union release time & monitoring of union business.

• Manage employment and personnel issues for employees.

• Assist in candidate interview selection process.

• Respond and advise on subpoena requests.

• Notify OU Card Services IT, etc., of last day of employment.

• Collect university property (including ID cards from employee & family members).

• Contact appropriate offices for cancellation of building & network access

• Develop/update policies and procedures documents/manuals and ensure appropriate placement for accessibility.

• Conduct and document exit interviews.

• Coordinate required and ad-hoc commujnications for UHR

• Responds/coordinates responses to audit requests.

• Manage HR-related files (both hard copies and OnBase)