Employee Relations Lead - McLean, United States - Freddie Mac

Freddie Mac

Verified Company

McLean, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

At Freddie Mac, you will do important work to build a better housing finance system and you'll be part of a team helping to make homeownership and rental housing more accessible and affordable across the nation.

Position Overview:

Our Impact:

The Employment Law Team works closely with the HR Division, and is responsible for managing a broad range of employment law matters, including the resolution of employment disputes and complaints to ensure fairness, consistency and legal compliance.

Your Impact:

In this role, you will be expected to:

Counsel HR professionals, executives, and people managers on a broad range of employment issues, including hiring, compensation, promotion, performance management, disability and religious accommodations, leave, corrective action, reductions-in-force, and terminations.
Use your employment law & employee relations expertise, good judgment and common sense to develop creative, effective solutions to often complex employment problems, issues and challenges, in collaboration with employment lawyers and HR.
Manage employment law workstreams on a daytoday basis.
Investigate employee complaints of violations of Freddie Mac policy or applicable law. Activities will include interviewing witnesses, gathering and reviewing relevant documents, analyzing and synthesizing the information gathered to determine the facts, assessing witness credibility, preparing a concise investigation report, making recommendations to management for remedial action, updating the case tracking system and assisting with reporting and analytics.
Develop and facilitate interactive, scenariobased employment law training and other briefings and communications for people managers and other employees.
Proactively identify improvements to HR processes and practices

Qualifications:

College degree or equivalent experience (law degree a plus but not required)
Minimum 8 to 10 years of relevant employment law or employee relations experience
Detailed understanding of federal, state & local employment laws
Advanced workplace investigations skills
Flawless objectivity and integrity
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Demonstrated ability to influence
Experience advising, counseling and making recommendations to management on a broad range of employmentrelated matters
Ability to work onsite (McLean, VA) three days per week

Keys to Success in this Role:

Strong work ethic
Good judgment
Creative problem solving
Ability to manage multiple matters on a timely basis
Collaborative & collegial in working with others; calm demeanor
Proactive identification of employment issues and risks
High emotional intelligence

Today, Freddie Mac makes home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing.

Join our smart, creative and dedicated team and you'll do important work for the housing finance system and make a difference in the lives of others.

Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:
Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $111,000 - $167,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program.

The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.