Our Workplace Relations and Employment team is a specialist group of highly experienced lawyers who have worked with major corporations providing strategic advice and representation in a myriad of industrial relations matters.

We are experienced in a broad range of industries including construction, mining and resources, transport, labour hire / recruitment, manufacturing, retail, security, education and training, motor vehicle dealerships, disabled and community care and medical.

Our services in this area include:

• Negotiating and settling collective bargaining and workplace agreements
• Strategic business restructuring advice (including redundancy)
• Strategic issues pertaining to outsourcing and transmission of business
• Defences to Workplace Health & Safety Act prosecutions
• Defending unfair dismissal proceedings
• Wrongful termination at common law
• Advising and appearing in industrial disputes
• Professional mediating of disputes
• Discrimination proceedings
• Bullying and Workplace Harassment
• Preparing and advising in relation to employment contracts.

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