Employment Lawyers Brisbane & Safety Law

The specialist employment lawyers and workplace relations and safety experts at Cooper Grace Ward have provided strategic advice to clients for 40 years combined. They specialise in all aspects of employment and safety law, including industrial relations, anti-discrimination, and workplace health and safety law.

With experience across a broad range of industries, our Brisbane lawyers help organisations of all types and sizes achieve their desired commercial outcomes.

The industries our lawyers advise include construction, energy and resources, transport, labour hire/recruitment, manufacturing, retail, security, education and training, motor vehicle dealerships, community care and health.

The employment lawyers in your corner

Our workplace relations and safety team advises employers about various matters, including restructures, enforcing restraints of trade, managing long term ill and injured employees, employee misconduct, poor performance and effecting termination of employment.

The team also provides assistance to clients managing industrial issues such as enterprise bargaining, right of entry and industrial action.

Cooper Grace Ward successfully represents a diverse range of clients in courts, commissions and tribunals.

Types of matters include workplace health and safety prosecutions, unfair dismissal proceedings, discrimination, sexual harassment and adverse action.

The team are experienced in conducting complex workplace investigations in response to safety related incidents or allegations of misconduct, as well as providing advice to clients about safety compliance matters.

Our legal services for employers include:

advice on all aspects of employment contracts, including restraint of trade, remuneration, bonuses, confidentiality and intellectual property
enterprise agreement negotiations
strategic business restructuring advice (including redundancy)
strategic issues relating to outsourcing and transfer of business
underpayment of wages and Fair Work Ombudsman prosecutions
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 work health and safety system reviews and audits and providing advice on workplace health and safety compliance
accident and incident investigations
defence of workplace health and safety prosecutions
undertaking a variety of workplace investigations concerning harassment, bullying and other employee misconduct
managing ill and injured employees.

For legal advice on workplace relations and safety, contact one of our Brisbane employment lawyers directly or contact Cooper Grace Ward on (07) 3231 2444.

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Workplace relations and safety training

Cooper Grace Ward’s workplace relations and safety team provides practical, customisable training services for employers, in-house lawyers, managers, and HR professionals. Our training programs cover a range of complex workplace issues and legal risks and responsibilities, such as employment basics for SMEs, performance management, workplace investigations, equal employment opportunity, managing ill and injured employees, and occupational health and safety.

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