Industrial/Labor Relations Personnel

Individuals who are responsible for formulating and/or implementing labor policy within their organizations. An organization's director of industrial relations forms labor policy, oversees industrial labor relations, negotiates collective bargaining agreements and coordinates grievance procedures to handle complaints resulting from management disputes with unionized employees. Labor relations managers and their staffs implement industrial labor relations programs and provide support for management when a collective bargaining agreement is up for negotiation. They also interpret and administer the contract with respect to grievances, wages and salaries, employee welfare, health care, pensions, union and management practices and other contractual stipulations.