{"id":23954,"date":"2025-05-20T14:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T18:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/?page_id=23954"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:38:25","slug":"employee-labor-relations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/employee-labor-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee &#038; Labor Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hr\/files\/2024\/07\/22-1623-AERIAL-953-1-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/files\/2024\/07\/22-1623-AERIAL-953-1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/files\/2024\/07\/22-1623-AERIAL-953-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/files\/2024\/07\/22-1623-AERIAL-953-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/files\/2024\/07\/22-1623-AERIAL-953-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/files\/2024\/07\/22-1623-AERIAL-953-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Employee &amp; Labor Relations (ELR)<\/strong> team serves as a strategic partner across Boston University, providing support in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Problem-solving and mediation<\/li>\n<li>Navigating labor contracts and employee handbooks and guidelines<\/li>\n<li>Labor negotiations<\/li>\n<li>Policy interpretation and consistent application<\/li>\n<li>Employee engagement and retention strategies<\/li>\n<li>Risk management<\/li>\n<li>Exit and stay interviews<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The goal of the ELR team is to cultivate a harmonious work environment in which all employees can thrive, perform, and excel. The ELR team consults with employees across the organization, as well as with University leaders and managers of represented and non-represented faculty and staff. The ELR team supports Human Resources in its consultative role to academic and business leaders and partners, while upholding BU HR\u2019s Strategic Priorities, and the University&#8217;s overarching mission and standards of excellence.<\/p>\n<p>For support with these or any other Employee &amp; Labor Relations&#8217; matters, please contact:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><strong>Employee Relations:<\/strong> <a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW198339070 BCX0\" href=\"mailto:erhr@bu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW198339070 BCX0\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW198339070 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">erhr<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW198339070 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">@bu.edu<\/span><\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" lang=\"EN-US\" class=\"TextRun SCXW198339070 BCX0\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW198339070 BCX0\"> or your <\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/home\/contacts\/elr-contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Human Resources Business Partner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Labor Relations:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:bulabor@bu.edu\">bulabor@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Employee &amp; Labor Relations (ELR) team serves as a strategic partner across Boston University, providing support in: Problem-solving and mediation Navigating labor contracts and employee handbooks and guidelines Labor negotiations Policy interpretation and consistent application Employee engagement and retention strategies Risk management Exit and stay interviews The goal of the ELR team is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23233,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23954"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25516,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23954\/revisions\/25516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}