Our employment and industrial relations lawyers work with clients to achieve commercial outcomes, without being driven by one-dimensional, dogmatic approaches. We provide strategic advice on workplace, employee relations and associated issues such as dispute resolution, superannuation, taxation and risk management.
We provide client focused practical advice on a range of labour law issues including:
- industrial relations: proactive and strategic guidance on managing workplace change and industrial disputes
- dispute resolution: advising on the resolution of disputes with unions or with individual employees on issues such as discrimination and occupational health and safety
- enterprise bargaining: giving strategic and tactical advice in establishing workplace arrangements with employees and/or unions
- employment law: advising about appropriate contractual arrangements, performance management and termination of employment
- corporate services: devising practical solutions to employment issues associated with transactions including employee share and option plans as well as executive contracts
- workplace culture: advice and assistance with the development and implementation of workplace policies and procedures
- occupational health and safety: advising on investigations of workplace accidents resulting in fatalities and/or serious injuries and defence of prosecutions for major corporate clients
- privacy: acting for major corporations with policies and procedures for employment and other related aspects of privacy legislation.
“The firm now concentrates on advising a stellar collection of loyal blue-chip clients on a range of employment and industrial relations issues. Clients value greatly the ability of its practitioners to ‘neatly tailor their advice to our business requirements’.”
Chambers Global Guide 2006-2007