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Role Description The Human Resources Generalist is responsible for the daily functions of the Human Resources (HR) Department, including: - Employee relations - Leave administration - Compliance - Benefits support This role partners closely with program leaders across multiple states to ensure consistent, fair, and compliant HR practices while fostering a positive, inclusive, and high-performance work environment. Responsibilities and Duties: - Responsible for Human Resources functions across the employee life-cycle. - Provides cross-functional leadership support on employee relations matters including conducting investigations, disciplinary actions, conflict resolution, and training. - Partners with program leadership and employees to ensure fair, equitable, and consistent workforce practices. - Collaborates on development and delivery of training. - Reviews, tracks, and documents compliance with mandatory and non-mandatory training. - Supports benefits administration as needed. - Works closely with Senior HR Director to evaluate employee data, company trends, departmental goals, and translates findings into actionable recommendations and outputs. - Collaborates with Human Resources colleagues across disciplines and programs in multiple states. - Participates in developing department goals, objectives, and HR systems. - Assists with administering FMLA and other leave programs across multiple states. - Supports the administration of workers’ compensation claims, including coordinating with carriers and internal stakeholders. - Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and recommends best practices. - Conducts OSHA, EEO, BLS reporting and assists with other required state and federal reporting. - Responds to unemployment claims and participates in hearings when required. - Partners with HR and management in developing and enhancing safety initiatives as needed. - Travels up to 5% as needed. - Performs other duties as assigned. Qualifications - 3-5 years of Human Resources experience. - Knowledge of State and Federal employment laws and regulations. - Familiarity with leave and workers compensation programs. - Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite. - Ability to analyze data and develop solutions. - Ability to pass a background investigation and drug screen. Requirements - Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related field (preferred). - Experience with multi-state employers (preferred). - Experience with benefits administration (preferred). - Knowledge of HRIS systems (preferred). Benefits - Compensation: $75,000-85,000 per year. - Schedule: Monday-Friday approx. 8a-5p. - Location: Remote or Hybrid/local to East Granby, CT.

Role Description An integral part of the Human Resources team, the Human Resources Specialist is responsible for day-to-day administration and compliance activities related to employee leave programs, workers' compensation, Unemployment claims processing, OSHA and EEO reporting, required employment law postings, as well as maintaining HRIS data and Employee Files. - Partners with vendors to administer Federal and State leave programs across multiple states, including eligibility review, notifications, tracking time and ensuring timely follow-up with employees. - Partners with vendors to lead the administration of workers’ compensation claims, including coordinating with carriers and internal stakeholders. - Maintains OSHA injury and illness records; prepares and posts the annual OSHA. - Prepares and submits annual EEO-1 and other required federal, state, or local HR-related reports, ensuring accuracy and appropriate record. - Maintains complete and compliant personnel files and related electronic records. - Runs, schedules, and validates HRIS reports to support compliance, audits, and reporting on leaves of absence, workers' compensation, headcount, demographics. Creates dashboards for HR. - Monitors federal, state, and local employment law posting requirements; ensures all required postings are current, visible, and available to on-site and remote employees. - Partners with HR Generalists on internal and external audits related to HR compliance (e.g., leaves, workers' compensation, I-9s, personnel files, EEO/affirmative action data). - Conducts OSHA, EEO, BLS reporting and assists with other required state and federal reporting. - Responds to unemployment claims and participates in hearings when necessary. - Responds to manager and employee questions related to leaves of absence, workers' compensation, OSHA/incident reporting, EEO data, and personnel files, escalating complex issues as needed. - Collaborates with Human Resources colleagues across disciplines and programs in multiple locations. - Performs other duties as assigned. Qualifications - 1-3 years of Human Resources experience - Familiarity with leave and workers compensation programs - Knowledge of HRIS systems - Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite - Comfortable learning new systems and tools - Ability to exercise a high degree of independent judgment in problem solving and decision-making related to professional human resource duties Requirements - Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related field - Familiarity with unemployment claims processing - Experience with multi-state employers