Position Overview
The Labor Relations Specialist is responsible for the day-to-day and ongoing Labor Relations responsibilities with a focus on interdepartmental relations. The Labor Relations Specialist interacts daily with other departments and outside offices as well as the Company's clients. S/he works closely with the Contract Administrators, assisting with incoming tickets, incoming Start+ and Hours+ implementations. S/he will assist the Director, Labor Relations and VP, Labor Relations as needed.
Essential Functions
- Verify appropriate client set-up for Pension and Health plans
- Serve as back-up for Contract Administrators as needed
- Assist Labor Relations executive team with client contact and follow-up for project and contract information
- Report generation and analysis as requested by unions and clients including Canada and Residuals
- Creation and presentation of training & resource materials, through contract analysis, for use by Labor Relations and other departments
- Client Data Sheets, Contract Set-Up Reference Spreadsheets, Procedure Documentation
- Submission of Labor Relations and A/P Contribution report-related help desk programming requests
- Including working with programmers, testing, and gathering necessary acceptance approvals from all parties involved
- Point of contact with other departments (A/P, Payroll, IT, OPS, Residuals) and external parties (especially unions and fund offices) to for matters relating to establishing or improvement of interdepartmental procedures, questions and research relating to contribution rates, contract issues, and reporting
- Research inquiries from fund offices and clients and coordinating effective resolutions to any contract or billing issues, with a focus on specifying and finding solutions for ongoing problems to prevent reoccurrence
- Ensure all contractual updates are circulated to all the appropriate internal individuals
- Assist with work-load balance across department
- Develops and maintains good working relationships with customers
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- 2-3 years’ experience in Entertainment Industry or multi-union environment
- Understand collective bargaining agreement details and ability to implement
- Excellent communication skills with ability to communicate issues that are complex in nature, both verbally and in writing, through various mediums
- Experience collaborating with clients and departments to identify needs, prioritize requests, and build effective relationships uses tact and diplomacy
- General understanding of the payroll process highly preferred
Special Work Conditions
- Schedule must be flexible in order to accommodate client and business needs.
- Sedentary – Some positions may require exerting up to 30 lbs. of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, or pull. Involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time.
Benefits
- Cast & Crew provides a comprehensive package of employee benefits including: Medical, Dental, Life/AD&D; LTD, additional voluntary benefits such as STD, Vision, paid vacation, holidays, and sick pay; 401(k) and employer match, Additional Life Insurance, and other company perks and benefits!
Please note: Due to the high volume of applicants, it is likely that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
About Cast & Crew
We enable great content. Films, television, streaming, live events. We make difficult tasks easier - think payroll, human resources, accounting, financial management and workflow. Great content is difficult enough, so we’ve built solutions and software and, most importantly, linked everything together through a central hub. In English, that means Cast & Crew solutions talk to each other, making those difficult tasks we listed above a whole lot easier and simpler. We do. So you can. Learn more at www.castandcrew.com
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Cast & Crew is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals based on job-related qualifications and ability to perform a job, without regard to age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship or marital status, and to maintain a non-discriminatory environment free from intimidation, harassment or bias based upon these grounds.
