Jobs / Management and business operations / 13-1075.00
Labor Relations Specialists
Resolve disputes between workers and managers, negotiate collective bargaining agreements, or coordinate grievance procedures to handle employee complaints.
- US jobs
- 64,810
- Median wage
- $95,420 a year
- Job family
- Management and business operations
Can agents do the work of labor relations specialists?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Management and business operations:
- Task levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. On TheAgentCompany, which gives agents workplace tasks inside a simulated software company, the best agent resolves 42.9% of tasks (a November 2025 result). No task-level benchmark in our collection maps directly to management or business operations.
- Project levelPartialMixed. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's GDPval deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons, and the best agent passes 73.5% of APEX-Agents tasks on the first try. Running a business is weaker: on Vending-Bench 2 the best model ends a simulated year with $15,515, about a quarter of Andon Labs' estimate for a good strategy.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in management and business operations, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
- 42.9%TTE-MatrixAgent + DeepSeek-V3.2 · 10 Nov 2025Emerging
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Negotiate collective bargaining agreements.
- Investigate and evaluate union complaints or arguments to determine viability.
- Propose resolutions for collective bargaining or other labor or contract negotiations.
- Draft contract proposals or counter-proposals for collective bargaining or other labor negotiations.
- Interpret contractual agreements for employers and employees engaged in collective bargaining or other labor relations processes.
- Prepare evidence for disciplinary hearings, including preparing witnesses to testify.
- Mediate discussions between employer and employee representatives in attempt to reconcile differences.
- Review employer practices or employee data to ensure compliance with contracts on matters such as wages, hours, or conditions of employment.
- Recommend collective bargaining strategies, goals, or objectives.
- Monitor company or workforce adherence to labor agreements.
- Call or meet with union, company, government, or other interested parties to discuss labor relations matters, such as contract negotiations or grievances.
- Assess risk levels associated with collective bargaining strategies.
Other job titles for this occupation (48)
Business Agent · Business Representative · Grievance Manager · Labor Relations Specialist · Labor Specialist · Appeals and Grievances Specialist · Arbitration Specialist · Collective Bargaining Specialist · Conciliator · Contract Negotiator · Employee and Labor Relations Specialist · Employee Engagement Specialist · Employee Experience Specialist · Employee Relations Business Partner (ERBP) · Employee Relations Consultant · Employee Relations Coordinator · Employee Relations Generalist · Employee Relations Investigator · Employee Relations Partner · Employee Relations Representative (Employee Relations Rep) · Employee Relations Specialist · Employee Representative (Employee Rep) · Employer Relations Representative (Employer Relations Rep) · Employer Relations Specialist · Grievance and Appeals Specialist · HR Specialist (Human Resources Specialist) · Industrial Relations Analyst · Industrial Relations Counselor · Industrial Relations Manager · Industrial Relations Representative (Industrial Relations Rep) · Industrial Relations Specialist · Industrial Relations Worker · Labor Conciliator · Labor Contract Analyst · Labor Mediator · Labor Organizer · Labor Relations Analyst · Labor Relations Consultant · Labor Relations Negotiator · Labor Relations Representative (Labor Relations Rep) · Labor Relations Worker · Labor Representative (Labor Rep) · Personnel Arbitrator · Personnel Negotiator · Relations Specialist · Union Organizer · Union Representative (Union Rep) · Union Steward