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Employee Relations Specialist of the Year Award
Resolving the hardest workplace issues with fairness.
About this category
This award recognises an employee relations specialist whose handling of casework, consultation, trade union relations or workplace disputes has been fair, effective and constructive. Judges look for outcomes, fairness and improvements to the way issues are handled.
Eligibility
Open to employee relations and industrial relations specialists in any sector.
Judging criteria
- Outcomes of casework and consultation
- Fairness
- Relationships with employee representatives
- Prevention
- Improvements introduced
Qualitative criteria
- Firm
- Fair and trusted by both sides
Metrics
- Case volumes and resolution times
- Grievance and tribunal trends
- Consultation outcomes and feedback
Additional criteria
Entries should include a concise case study of the HR work, supporting figures such as engagement, retention, absence, capability or cost, and, where possible, comments from leaders, managers or employees. Never include names or any detail that could identify an individual employee, especially in employee relations, wellbeing or casework examples: describe cases in anonymised terms and give results as percentages or ranges. Nothing in an entry is shared beyond the judging panel. Judges consider the size of the organisation and the HR team, so a one person HR function competes on equal terms with a large people directorate.
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