Current environment Heavy layoffs commenced in 2015 and more are expected in 2017. Wage freezes and wage rollbacks remain a water cooler topic. Capital spending reviews and cuts are in the headlines. There are many signals that 2017 will continue to be about managing costs and running current operations as lean as possible. But there is still major project work and maintenance for existing operations underway, and bids to submit to secure future work. In 2017 companies are properly wary about adding staff or making long-term spending. Essential services and activities will go on but with a sharp eye on costs. There is less organizational slack in most organization charts which may increase the need for temporary or ad hoc assistance for either technical expertise or to have access to increased variable capacity.
Services you may need: You may need the plan to source labour and scale up rapidly for maintenance purposes or due to changes in schedule. And you will need to ensure costs to get workers to the site are tightly controlled. Flying tradespeople across the country every shift may be justifiable in a tight labour market but makes little sense when local or regional options exist.
Labour relations or employee investigations may arise that require staff dedication of time or expertise that no longer exists within your organization. These are examples of areas of short-term services where Workforce Delivery can help.
Our knowledge and experience can allow us to build a labour supply strategy that takes the current market into account. We can provide plans and execute them as needed.
Another area of concern in active projects and worksites is managing spikes in labour relations activity such as misconduct, substance abuse or increase in complaints. Tension and animosity among workers can build due to the job market outlook or knowing that layoffs may be coming soon. You need cost-effective options to deal with increased labour relations activity. Or you may be facing what you consider to be regular workload levels resulting from managing your labour force, but the team you manage has been drastically reduced.
Your internal capacity and expertise are not what it was two years ago, but the demands remain. Workforce Delivery can pick up challenging labour relations issues for you such as collective bargaining, grievance handling and complex investigations.
Where With Peopel Inc. can help – Effective and cost-conscious solutions. With People Inc. can offer ad hoc labour relations and labour supply services for places where project work is still underway and existing operations in all sectors continue.
Cost pressures may create an opportunity (or pressure) to review labour supply costs from top to bottom.
Approaches or sources that were never up for serious consideration in the past may now make sense.
With People Inc. can be the source for unbiased analysis of the value provided by various labour-sourcing strategies together with transition plans.
The final call remains yours, but demands have never been greater for your decision to be based on critical screening of all the options on the table since 2015. Our services for labour relations or labour supply can be provided on an ad hoc basis at an hourly rate. Some common service types we offer:
- Single grievance or investigation file completion.
- Interim backfill of an unexpected vacancy of a labour relations manager or site role.
- Develop a labour supply strategy, with the option to execute that strategy, reporting back progress.
- Provide collective bargaining services for a full round of bargaining with one or more trades or unions.
- Fulfill labour supply shortfall needs including sourcing, screening, onboarding and booking of travel and accommodations.
With People Inc. supplies its own phones, common business software and computers and workspace. So none of the items represent an added cost to our clients. For full rates and terms please contact us. Our principal labour relations Practitioner, Sam Kemble have a combined 18+ years of experience in all aspects of labour relations.
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