FM Staff Relations
FMHR Staff Relations provides advice, guidance, and assistance to both supervisors and staff on various employee relations/labor relations issues. Primary areas of service include:
- General HR questions and resource information
- Conflict resolution (team, coworker, supervisor/report conflicts)
- Medical leave approval, workplace injuries, and sick leave process
- Workplace medical or religious accommodation
- Military, jury duty, domestic violence, and other leave approval.
- Employee appreciation events and support
- Performance management and review
- Administration and interpretation of University Policy, FM practice or rule, and discipline consultation
- Fair treatment, workplace concerns, informal resolution
- Administration and interpretation of collective bargaining provisions under the Memoranda of Understanding (MOU), as they relate to Facilities Management operations
- Formal grievance process Information and facilitation
- Staff onboarding and offboarding
- Unemployment, workers' compensation, and other agency response and representation
Representatives in FM-HR/Staff Relations work closely with other departments on campus such as University Human Resources/Staff Relations, FSAP representatives, Campus Ombudsperson, Legal Services, and other appropriate representatives.
Contact Information
7401 Baltimore Ave., 4th Floor
301-405-3432 (main phone)
301-314-1999 (main fax)
301-226-9339 (medical fax)
fmstaffrelations@umd.edu