Rakshith NK

Talent Partnering:

•Talent Partner for a fast paced start-up, handling employee relations at factory and supporting onboarding of new hires.

• Ongoing projects are - Employee Engagement framework and drafting standing orders for factory

• Managing manpower during COVID 19 by ensuring 100% safe working atmosphere.

• Mobilizing 97% associates from whitefield factory to Hosur factory.

• Setting up a new plant in Hosur.

• Worked on the closure on Whitefield Plant.

• Scaled up head count from 108 to 1500.

Employee Relations

• Guiding and supporting managers and employees in HR/IR issues, HR policies and practices.

• Steering the disciplinary action process.

• Liaison with the workmen for a healthy IR climate and maintain good rapport with shop-floor associates representatives for IR intelligence.

• Keeping pulse of employees through informal discussions with EC members and opinion leaders; build rapport with employees and ensure timely redress of grievances.

• Facilitate and participate in employee counseling along with section managers/HODs.

• Supported the management during employee strike and resistance to work.

Talent acquisition

• Managing full-cycle recruitment, from initial sourcing and screening through offer negotiation, placement and on-boarding of all shopfloor associates.

• Handling ad-hoc requirements, exits and replacements while adhering to tight deadlines.

• Hired close to 2000 associates in the FY 2022 -23.

• Achieved gender diversity hiring and ensured 60% women workforce in the factory..

Employee Engagement

• Steering company-wide celebrations and recognition programs.

• Steering employee engagement initiatives for team building.

• Collaborating with HR Central Services and steering R&R Programs, address central services issues, ensuring prompt resolutions.

• Support to conduct annual surveys to measure employee engagement.

• Co-Editor of quarterly In-House magazine - THE CHAMPIONS, which publishes articles of employees and employees' family members.

• Steered seamless events from planning to execution while proactively managing risks and potential problems.

Time office Management:

• Operational in charge of ERP tool
• Monitoring Absenteeism on regular basis to ensure 100% productivity
• Tracking habitual absenteeism cases periodically & bring to the management notice for taking appropriate action
• Contract employees Management:
• Recruiting and deployment as per the production requirement
• Engaging the new contractors, complying with CLRA act
• Ensuring timely renewal of licences
• Payroll Processing / Billing and ensuring timely wage payment
• Auditing compliances of Contractor as per CLRA act
• Handling Grievances
• Employee Welfare
• Responsible for Contract Agreement renewal
• Responsible for compliances as per CLRA Act

ER&IR

• Employee counseling
• Representing as MR for domestic enquiries
• Preparing necessary documents as per the requirement of advocates for court cases as well as domestic enquiries
• Responsible for preparing advisory memo, Show cause-cum-charge sheet, warning letter etc
• Connecting shop floor employees on daily basis & monitoring issues like non adherence of PPE’s and usage of mobile phone while on duty etc
• Conducting work samithi, canteen samithi, transport samithi and cultural samithi meetings
• Anticipating or gathering information about union tactics/activities on destabilizing work environment and preparing strategies along with management to encounter such issues
• Conducting wage survey to provide competitive wages and benefits to the employees and also to align with the COD of blue collar employees
• Regular monitoring of disciplinary matters like absenteeism, loitering, punctuality, etc and Ensuring immediate disciplinary actions against such issues
• Conducting employee communication meeting for giving business updates
• Creating awareness among shop floor officers/ workers about personnel & welfare policy, Grievance redressal procedure, work place management, team spirit and positive attitude
• Implement and supervise the changes in labour laws, as applicable from time to time
• Handling local bodies like gramapanchayath, local organizations and government institutions like police, pollution control board, Labor officers, factory inspectors etc
• Employee Welfare and Engagements Activities:
• Coordinating for the events like get-togethers, family day, sports events, employee recognition, General
• Health check-ups, and Blood Donation camps etc
• Co coordinating for Annual Medical Examination
• Responsible for conducting Coffee with HR (Grievance redressal initiative

Statutory compliance

• Responsible for Factory’s statutory compliance - quarterly, half yearly & yearly returns like factories,
• CLRA, Bonus, overtime ESIC and PF
• Supported employees in performing their PF activities like withdrawal, Transfer and Advance as per PF Act
• Responsible for PF and ESIC enrolment of new joiners
• Liaising with various statutory authorities Like Factories dept, Apprentice dept, PF dept, and Labour dept
• HR – MIS reports
• Department wise monthly manpower utilization report
• Monthly manpower cost vs sales report
• Board Meeting Reports ( Attrition report, man-hour loss, Admin Expenses and all other HR activities)
• MIS reports like year ago report of overtime report, leave balance report, Attrition report for HR Status visualization.

Capability Building

• Enhance people capabilities to meet the Long-Term Strategy of the company (LTS 2025).

• Project: Technical Competency Dictionary

Training & Development

• Plan training calendar for the FY based on the TNI; rollout training programs; document training records.

• Project: Skill Matrix for manufacturing teams.

Employee Engagement, R&R

• Support corporate to drive employee engagement initiatives for the factory.

• Steer R&R programs for the entire strategic business unit.