Employment, Workplace & Safety

Our employment team has considerable experience in all matters concerning Employment Law, Industrial Relations and Workplace Health & Safety

We look not only at the legal issues of a particular transaction or dispute, but moreover, achieving the best holistic outcome for our client in all of the circumstances. Our lawyers are able to achieve this through a combination of specialist legal expertise and experience, strong industry knowledge and a deep interest and investigation of our clients and their businesses.

Our expertise and experience

Our workplace team advises and represents both employers and employees on a wide range of employment related issues including:

• Drafting employment contracts
• Unfair dismissal matters
• General protections claims
• Industrial relations
• All aspects of WHS

Representative matters

• Drafting employment contract for Chief Executive Officer and other senior staff of major corporates
• Drafting workplace policies and advising on suitability and implementation
• Assisting an employer with the performance management of staff
• Advising an employer in respect of workplace changes including restructuring and redundancies
• Representing a senior employee in a complex dispute before the Fair Work Commission
• Federal Court proceedings
• Drafting an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement for a major Australian company
• Conducting complex negotiations for an employer in respect to an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement
• Defending an employer threatened with industrial action
• Conducting a workplace health & safety investigation involving workplace fatalities
• Running various discrimination, harassment and bullying claims