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:

• advice on all aspects of employment contracts including restraint of trade, remuneration and confidentiality;
• assist in enterprise agreement negotiations;
• strategic business restructuring advice (including redundancy);
• strategic issues relating to outsourcing and transmission of business;
• representing a diverse range of clients on contentious employment and industrial relations matters in courts, commissions and tribunals, including occupational health and safety prosecutions, unfair dismissal proceedings, discrimination and sexual harassment, adverse action and underpayment of wages claims;
• under payment of wages and fair work ombudsman prosecutions;
• providing strategic industrial relations advice on a range of workplace matters, including unions in the workplace, good faith bargaining and right of entry;
• conducting and implementing occupational health and safety system reviews;
• providing front end occupational health and safety advice concerning workplace health and safety obligations and requirements for employers and others;
• providing workplace relations compliance training;
• accident investigations;
• developing and implementing risk management plans;
• undertaking variety of workplace investigations concerning harassment, bullying and other employee misconduct and;
• assisting employers managing ill and injured employees. 

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Finalist  - ALB Australasian Law Awards 2010 (Employment Specialist Law Firm of the Year)