Areas of Expertise

We provide high quality, practical and timely advice, support and other client-focussed services to our employer clients on the full range of employment law and industrial relations issues. We help our clients navigate through the often complex employment and industrial relations landscape enabling them to confidently implement practical solutions.

Our areas of expertise include:

• Award interpretation and compliance issues
• Bullying complaints
• Confidential information, restrictive covenants and other post-employment issues including search orders and injunctions
• Construction industry matters including compliance issues relating to the Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Act 2016 (Cth), the Building Code, investigations and examinations etc.
• Disciplinary issues, employee grievances and performance management
• Discrimination and sexual harassment matters
• Employment contracts and executive service agreements
• Enterprise agreements (including assistance with negotiations, drafting, agreement making, Fair Work Commission approval and disputes)
• Expatriate employee issues
• Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) and Fair Work Commission matters (we deal with all matters of this type)
• HR policies
• Independent contractor agreements and disputes
• Industrial disputes
• Labour hire agreements and labour hire licensing
• Management of injured workers
• Privacy, record keeping and data protection
• Redundancy
• Right of entry
• Stand down
• Strategic industrial relations and employment advice
• Termination of employment
• Transfer of business issues and employee due diligence – arising on business sales and purchases, outsourcing, insourcing, and other restructuring
• Union eligibility issues
• Unfair dismissal and general protections (“adverse action”) claims
• Work health and safety including road transport safety
• Workplace investigations (including equal opportunity, bullying and harassment, misconduct and employee fraud investigations).