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The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is an arm’s-length federal agency responsible for the shared stewardship of the lands and waters that make up the Port of Vancouver, Canada’s largest port. Our mandate, as outlined in the Canada Marine Act, is to enable Canada’s trade objectives on behalf of all Canadians, ensuring the safe movement of goods through the Port of Vancouver while protecting the environment and considering local communities.
As an organization with a significant impact on communities and businesses across Canada, the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is dedicated to diversity, inclusion, and sustainability. We strive to create a workplace that mirrors the richness of our community, empowering all employees to achieve their full potential.
The employee and labour relations advisor (term for a period up to 3 years) is responsible for providing technical, effective and proactive advice including employee and labour relations, disability management, employee programs and HR processes. The advisor works closely with the senior employee and labour relations advisor on resolution matters and provides support to the manager in implementing diverse employee and labour relations initiatives and projects. This position works collaboratively to ensure consistency and appropriate application of employer best practices, the collective agreement, port authority policies and statutory requirements.

• Provide advice and information to HRBP, people leaders, and employees on the interpretation and application of the collective agreement and on workplace directives, processes and policies
• In collaboration with HRBP, provide advice to people leaders on employee issues relating to labour relations, performance management, human resources policies and procedures, discipline, grievances, case law and government legislation and regulations
• Negotiate with union representatives to resolve routine, straight forward disputes prior to a formal grievance whenever possible
• Investigate, research, and analyze labour relations issues, conduct grievance hearings, and prepare cases for arbitration hearings
• Apply strategies, gather evidence, prepare and/or conduct investigative interviews as applicable, and write documentation
• Participate in collective bargaining as a resource
• Provide support to the LR team in coordinating workforce changes and other employee or labour relations initiatives and projects
• Act as a technical resource on corporate projects by providing a labour relations perspective of the impacts on planned activities, programs and initiatives
• Provide guidance on the appropriateness of disciplinary and non-disciplinary actions.
• Provide confidential advice to employees and management regarding effective conflict resolution
• Facilitate and support the grievance process and other workplace issues, and provide guidance to people leaders on employee relations and labour relations matters
• Develop, implement, and monitor safe stay-at-work and/or return-to-work plans for employees with injury or illness
• Provide guidance in the management of accommodation issues
• Coordinate disability case management of ill and injured employees, including early intervention and provision of services and referrals, to implement cost-effective strategies to decrease absence
• Provide advice and manage disability management processes for employees, including topics such as policy and procedures, enrolment, acceptance/denial of disability claims, reinstatements, individual/group transfers, disability management practices, and other related matters
• Collaborate with Occupational Health and Safety, providing services to employees that require injury, medical, and/or rehabilitation support
• Assess and facilitate return-to-work plans for all employees
• Assess employees’ fitness for work based on bona fide medical and functional information
• Develop, in collaboration with the employee and their care providers, individualized plans that facilitate an injured or ill employee’s return to work or stay at work that meets the employee’s functional ability
• Promote best practices in disability management through communication, provision of expert advice, and training of employees, people leaders, union representatives, HR, and others
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of all employees in the disability management program