Employment
Our services range from resolving industrial disputes and negotiating collective agreements through to defending unfair dismissal, discrimination and sexual harassment claims and drafting individual contracts. They are delivered by a highly specialised and experienced team with an excellent record of successfully representing employers in courts and industrial tribunals.
With strong practices in all key states, we have the detailed local knowledge required to provide expert advice and legal services wherever our clients need us. At the same time, our national perspective enables clients to benefit from a unified national approach to their employment strategies and activities.
Our partners are regularly sought to work on cross-border disputes; utilising their knowledge across local government and international issues and negotiating with international based union bodies and employer associations. This is of particular value to clients whose employment issues go beyond Australia's borders and those whose businesses may be impacted by unions collaborating internationally.
Our services
- strategic industrial relations advice – aligning employment plans with business strategy
- industrial dispute resolution
- collective agreements
- award and agreement preparation and interpretation
- individual contracts - common law and Australian workplace agreements
- policy formulation
- employment advice - general workplace relations law advice to public and private sector
- defence of unfair dismissal and unfair contract claims
- anti-discrimination issues management - from implementing equal opportunity policy to defending complaints of disability discrimination
- OHS education and defending prosecutions
- alternative contracts and agreements - non-traditional solutions including contractors and other flexible work arrangements
- advocacy - representing employers before courts and industrial tribunals at state and federal level
- performance management and restructuring and redundancy processes
- tailored management and employee training programs
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