Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in an Employee Relations, or a similar role.
- Experience in applying ER/Employment Legal advice across multiple APAC countries.
- Experience conducting and advising on local disciplinary and investigation processes, reorganizations and consultation exercises, and performance management cases.
- Ability to communicate in English and Korean fluently, to support stakeholder relationship management.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working with works councils or unions.
- Ability to operate with empathy, and diffuse/de-escalate difficult conversations/situations, or implementing mediation strategies.
- Ability to manage a wide set of stakeholders and influence the outcomes in a global organization.
- Ability to collaborate across teams, regions, and time zones.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Ability to work across different identities.
About the job
As a Regional APAC Employee Relations Partner, you will rely on your expertise of employment laws and best practices to interpret and apply Google policies to address all workplace concerns across APAC. This will include matters that may violate Google’s HR policies as well as ensuring Googlers are being treated and consistently in areas such as reorganizations, promotion, performance management, pay and level.In this role, your responsibilities include investigating and resolving workplace concerns, advising on and supporting the appropriate investigation or disciplinary processes and implementing appropriate action. This is an individual contributor role.Great just isn't good enough for our People Operations team (known elsewhere as "Human Resources"). We bring the world's most innovative people to Google and provide the programs that help them thrive. Whether recruiting the next Googler, refining our core programs, developing talent, or simply looking for ways to inject some more fun into the lives of our Googlers, we bring a data-driven approach that is reinventing the human resources field.
Responsibilities
- Conduct fair, thorough and timely investigations into allegations of violations of Google’s HR policies or local law and policies to ensure fair treatment of all Googlers.
- Ensure investigation and disciplinary processes are carried out fairly, thoroughly and in compliance with local requirements.
- Advise Partner teams on local investigation processes and support disciplinary procedures for non-HR policy violations.
- Resolve workplace concerns by determining appropriate approaches aligned with local processes to ensure fair treatment of all Googlers (e.g., performance ratings, promotion, pay and conduct).
- Review decision making and advice on local processes for reorganizations.