Industrial Relations Program

Key elements of an industrial relations program include the following:

1. The project industrial relations program (if applicable) as developed by corporate industrial relations before mobilization.

2. The project contingency plan as developed by corporate industrial relations before mobilization.

3. Provisions for proper gate assignment and integrity in accordance with the industrial relations plan.

4. Sound, on-site employee relations policies as referenced in Procedure, Preventive Labor Relations.

5. Programs for developing and maintaining rapport with local civic and governmental agencies, local law enforcement, and organizations concerned with project activities. 

6. Industrial Relations Training Programs for supervisors. 

7. Formal employee orientation that stresses the open shop philosophy and the open door policy to new hires. 

8. Provisions for developing and maintaining a Client management interface for executing the industrial relations program. 

9. Requirements for communicating with corporate industrial relations, including immediately notifying corporate industrial relations of employee relations problems such as discrimination charges, employee complaints, union organizing, picketing, and posting of handbills.

10. Provisions for assessing project and community labor trends and reporting these trends to project management and corporate industrial relations.

11. Requirements for a direct liaison between SI Human Resources, Safety, and Security to provide guidance on all aspects of the industrial relations program

12. Requirements for mandatory federal and state postings and controlled-access project bulletin boards, which should be located at the point of hiring and at the employee entrance. 

13. Provisions the establishment and promotion of positive community relations