Employment & workplace relations
Overview
Our Employment & Safety team builds close relationships with its clients’ HR professionals, executives, in-house counsel and managers to gain a genuine understanding of their workplaces and employment relationship risks.
Our focus on having a multi-dimensional appreciation of how our clients operate enables us to provide proactive advice to mitigate employment risks.
By understanding our clients' commercial goals and challenges we provide advice that is both legally correct and contextually relevant.
The range of services we provide includes:
- advising on and drafting employment contracts
- advising on discipline and dismissal
- conducting workplace investigations
- conducting underpayment reviews, HR policy and compliance reviews, visa condition compliance reviews and recommending improvements
- conducting due diligence on employment-related aspects of business acquisitions, sales and outsourcing arrangements
- representing clients in unfair dismissals, adverse action complaints, breach of contract claims, workplace bullying and harassment, and post-employment restraint proceedings
- defending claims arising under employment practices liability policies and D&O policies
- providing training on employment compliance matters, and
- providing immigration services, including workforce planning and visa applications.
