HR manager duties and responsibilities

1. Recruitment and onboarding

- Workforce planning and writing job descriptions
- Sourcing, screening and interviewing candidates
- Offer letters, joining formalities and induction

1. Employee records and documentation

- Maintaining personnel files, contracts and ID/bank/statutory details
- Issuing letters such as appointment, experience and warning letters

1. Attendance, leave and payroll support

- Tracking attendance, leaves, overtime and late coming
- Applying leave and policy rules (for example, how clubbed leaves are treated)
- Preparing payroll inputs and coordinating salary processing, increments and deductions

1. Policies and compliance

- Drafting and updating the employee handbook and company policies
- Complying with labour laws (PF, ESI, minimum wages, bonus, gratuity, Shops & Establishments Act)
- Maintaining statutory registers and handling audits

1. Performance management

- Setting KPIs and running appraisals and review cycles
- Handling probation confirmations and increments

- Managing performance improvement plans

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Employee relations and discipline

- Resolving grievances and conflicts
- Issuing warnings and show-cause notices, and running disciplinary inquiries
- Keeping the workplace fair and respectful

1. Training and development

- Identifying skill gaps and organising training
- Planning career paths and succession

1. Compensation and benefits

- Salary structures, benchmarking and incentive schemes
- Insurance, leave perks and recognition programmes

1. Employee engagement and retention

- Staff meetings, appreciation programmes, events and feedback surveys
- Analysing attrition and reducing turnover

1. Exit management

- Processing resignations and terminations
- Exit interviews, asset return and handover
- Full and final settlement and relieving/experience letters

1. Reporting and advice to management

- Monthly HR reports (headcount, attendance, attrition, hiring status)
- Advising management on people decisions and risks

Work Location: In person

📌 HR Manager (Kochi)
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📍 Kochi