Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience in an Employee Relations, HR generalist or similar role.
- Experience in applying ER/Employment Legal advice in Ireland or across multiple EMEA countries.
- Experience conducting and advising on local disciplinary and investigation processes, reorganizations and consultation exercises, performance management cases.
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 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
In this role, you will rely on your expertise in applicable employment laws and best practices to interpret and apply Google policies, addressing all workplace concerns across EMEA. This includes handling matters that may violate Google’s HR policies and ensuring that Googlers are treated fairly and consistently in areas such as reorganizations, promotions, performance management, pay, and leveling.
You will also be investigating and resolving workplace concerns, advising on and supporting the appropriate investigation or disciplinary processes, and implementing appropriate action. Additionally, you will be an individual contributor.
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 that the investigation/complaint process and disciplinary proceedings are handled in a fair, thorough and timely manner consistent with local requirements.
- Advise Partner teams (e.g., Regulatory Affairs, Security Investigations ) on local investigation processes and advise on and support local disciplinary processes for non-HR policy violations.
- Advise and help to resolve other workplace concerns to determine the appropriate approach in line with local processes and to ensure fair treatment of all Googlers (e.g., concerns about the performance ratings, promotion, pay and level and any other behaviors that may breach our Standards of Conduct.
- Review and advice on decision-making and local processes for Reorganizations (reorgs).
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