Our Employment + Workplace Relations team work with employers across a spectrum of industries and needs covering the employee lifecycle, acting as an employer advocate from hiring and managing employees, through to exit.

Given Australia’s strong employment protection regimes, our team has extensive experience in providing sound and commercial advice to ensuring our clients make rational and informed decisions.

Working with large corporates, listed entities, not-for-profits and high growth businesses entering the Australian market, our employment + workplace relations team has a breadth of experience from enterprise bargaining agreements, unfair dismissal claims, general protections claims, workplace investigations, executive and board recruitment, policy development and workplace training, including specialised knowledge in Child Safety.

Our capabilities

• Employment + Independent
• Contractor Agreements
• Onboarding procedures
• Independent Medical Examinations
• Employee warning
• Workplace policies
• Performance management plans
• Identify and managing Zombie Agreements
• Whistleblowing
• Deed of Release + Settlements
• Without prejudice letters
• Redundancy + termination advice/resources
• Drafting
• Strategic advice
• Negotiation + bargaining
• Lodgement with Fair Work
• General protection claims
• Discrimination, bullying + harassment
• Unfair dismissal
• Training
• Development of policies + procedures