Advisor Labour Relations - 12-month contract

Requisition ID: 190364

Career Group: Corporate Office Careers

Job Category: HR Labour Relations

Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%

Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)

Province: Alberta

City: Calgary

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Ready to Make an impact?

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for passionate new talent to join our team! We are currently looking for Advisor Labour Relations for a 12-month contract. This is a hybrid role and there is an in-office requirement of 3 days a week. The office location is Calgary.

Here’s Where You’ll Be Focusing

Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs)

• Support for collective bargaining as needed. Provides expertise on contract interpretation and coaching for store managers.
• Partner with store business leaders and HR Business Partners to educate and provide guidance through collaborative labour decisions and interpretations of collective agreements.
• Coach, educate and communicate labour relations strategies to Human Resources and Operations teams.
• Facilitate preparation of bargaining tools including researching settlements and preparing wage comparisons.
• Researches, develops, analyzes data and makes recommendations for collective bargaining agreements including, but not limited to, competitive analytics, language review, recommendations to strategy, economics and compliance.
  
  

Dispute Resolution

• Manage grievance, arbitrations, human rights complaints and other labour board matters involving unionized employees
• Conduct grievance meeting and interact with Union Reps from various Locals in multiple provinces. Administration of CBAs.
• Provide CBA analysis for upcoming negotiations.
• Ensure proper administration of CBAs.
• Follow processes on maintaining files on all original labour contracts and notes taken during negotiations.
• Provide prompt, firm and accurate counsel to other Leaders who contact the LR department for guidance or assistance, including advice on progressive discipline, performance management and interactions with unionized employees and union representatives.
• Master and support the Company’s positive employee relations strategy.
  
  

Labour Database

• Maintain wage and other comparisons for all direct competitors for each collective agreement.
• Maintain detailed clause by clause comparison of collective agreements.
  
  

What You Have To Offer

• Undergraduate degree in business, HR or Labour Relations
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• Excellent computer and Internet skills
• Excellent knowledge of applicable legislation
• Strong communication and organization skills
• Ability to effectively manage time and completing priorities
  
  

At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.

We offer a competitive compensation package, which varies by role. Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by our organization nor monitored for accuracy.

We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.