Labour Relations Specialist

What does it take to help an HR Partnership team navigate complex labour relations and negotiation rounds with confidence? It starts with proactively having the right information at the right time, developing compliant and efficient HR processes, and implementing newly bargained processes and items.

As a Labour Relations Specialist, you'll be an important part of the team behind TMU's labour relations work, providing the research, analysis, expertise, and organizational support that helps HR partners and university leaders make informed decisions and build effective relationships with union and academic leadership.

Working alongside the HR Partnership team, you'll research and analyze labour relations matters, interpret relevant collective agreement provisions, and help develop consistent approaches to their administration. You'll bring curiosity and sound judgment to complex questions, researching case law, identifying relevant precedents, and turning information into practical insights that colleagues can use to support their work.

You'll also help build and maintain the knowledge base that allows the Partnership team to work effectively. By maintaining the centralized case tracking system and organizing important labour relations information, you'll ensure that critical history, documentation, and case information can be accessed when it is needed most.

Your work will extend into one of the most important areas of labour relations: collective bargaining. You'll actively support and participate in bargaining for the OPSEU and CUPE 233 bargaining units, helping prepare information, identify emerging issues, and bring forward trends across bargaining units that can inform management planning and decision-making.

You'll wear many hats in this role. One day you may be researching a complex labour relations question or reviewing case law; the next, you may be supporting bargaining preparation, analyzing trends, organizing case information, or helping a colleague navigate a collective agreement. You'll work collaboratively with HR colleagues, academic leaders, and union representatives, developing relationships and deepening your understanding of the University's diverse and evolving labour relations environment.

This is an opportunity to learn, contribute, and become a trusted source of knowledge behind the University's labour relations work. Your research and analysis may happen behind the scenes, but you work closely with key colleagues within larger HR to help equip the Partnership team with the information and insight they need to navigate complexity, support constructive relationships, and make thoughtful precedent setting decisions.

If you're curious, analytical, organized, and energized by learning something new every day, this is an opportunity to build your labour relations expertise while making a meaningful contribution to the team that supports TMU's leaders and employees.

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This is a current vacancy

An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Applicants who do not meet all of the posted qualifications may, upon the University’s sole discretion, be considered to fill a vacancy on an underfill basis.

Candidates must have a demonstrated record of dependability/reliability and a commitment to maintain confidentiality.

We encourage all First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples or Indigenous peoples of North America, to self-identify in their applications.

As part of the selection process, candidates may be required to complete an occupational assessment.

Toronto Metropolitan University is committed to the principles of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), and aims to ensure that independence, dignity, integration and equality of opportunity are embedded in all aspects of the university culture.

We will provide an accessible experience for applicants, students, employees, and members of the Toronto Metropolitan University community. We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the recruitment process. If you have restrictions that need to be accommodated to fully participate in any phase of the recruitment process, please submit your request through the AskHR webform . All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.