Human Resources Manager

Bull & Bush Meat Merchants is looking for an experienced HR Manager or an HR Officer with sufficient experience.

Requirements:

• 3-5 years of Human Resources experience. (Degree or Qualification advantageous, however not required).

• Must have familiarity & knowledge of all relevant legislation. BCEA, LRA, OHS, EEA, COIDA. SDL Acts. Must have a good understanding of the limitations and sections of each act applicable in certain scenarios.

• Must have experience attending to disputes referred to the CCMA and representing the company as required for Conciliation & Arbitration processes at the CCMA. As far as possible avoiding disputes being referred to the CCMA by instituting progressive discipline at all levels.

• Must understand how to issue warnings in alignment with the disciplinary code of conduct and draft warnings accordingly based upon the levels of misconduct specified in the disciplinary code of conduct. Must support management in this function at all times. Must closely track the warnings issued to staff and ensure that all warnings are issued in accordance with previous warnings issued.

• Must ensure that the company maintains progressive discipline at all times in all instances of disciplinary action. Progressive discipline is imperative in order to ensure compliance with all legislation, in particular the LRA.

• Must be able to work under pressure and execute instructions as required timeously. Must be able to work autonomously without intervention from management as far as possible.

• Must be able to check, monitor and control staff attendance and timekeeping. The HR manager will be expected at regular 30 minute intervals to check the movement of staff for lunch and ensure all staff are complying with their required lunch times. The HR manager will also be expected to track the toilet and smoking breaks of all staff and ensure adherence to the required time limits. The close tracking and monitoring of staff and their timekeeping will be important in this role. Any deviation from the required standard experienced by management will need disciplinary action to ensure compliance.

• Experience in chairing disciplinary hearings will be advantageous.

• Experience with workman's compensation and submitting claims & progress reports on easy comp will be required. This will be a requirement for the job and ensuring all claims are submitted and processed until completion on easy comp. Administering all workman's compensation claims will be a requirement of this role and all necessary documentation to be completed in this process.

• Experience in Health & Safety would be advantageous as a component of incident investigation and completing Health & Safety inspections would be required. The Health & Safety role will be integrated into the role at a point.

• Drafting of Policies and Procedures as required and requested. Ensuring that all policies and procedures are drafted according to the required legislation and standard. Ensuring that all staff complete any documentation required in terms of policies, procedures and letters.

• Drafting of documentation relevant to operational requirements and ensuring all staff have signed the respective documentation.

• Must ensure all staff have completed an induction prior to commencing employment. Must ensure all staff have completed a criminal check. Must ensure all staff have been forwarded on to the payroll outsourcing company and accountant to be loaded for payment.

• Tracking and managing all leave applied for by staff. Ensuring that all leave applied for has been approved by management and that all leave has been approved based upon a suitable amount of days available and accrued. Consistently compiling the leave schedule for the year and the planning the leave appropriately for the year in order to distribute leave proportionally so the team is not affected operationally. Ensuring that the leave schedule and daily attendance is distributed to all management members daily.

• Validating and confirming all sick notes submitted by staff to ensure that all sick leave administered is being provided based upon valid sick notes supplied by registered medical practitioners.

• Management and filing of all employee documentation. Ensuring that all employee documentation has been completed including employee contracts, inductions, employee information, payroll information. Ensure that all contracts are kept up to date and all new contracts are completed in accordance with the required time frame.

• Must be open to being involved operationally where required and if required.

• Experience with time and attendance software as well as payroll software beneficial.

• Must be reliable and trustworthy. Own transport advantageous.

• Must ideally stay in a location close to Sandton.