Workplace Relations and Safety

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Our experienced Workplace Relations and Safety Group is one of the strongest in Queensland and has a genuine national focus.

We advise clients throughout Australia on a range of employment and industrial relations issues. Our specialty is getting to know our clients’ businesses and providing practical, strategic and fast-track solutions. We recognise that the majority of cases involving employment and industrial relations issues require an immediate, tailored response. We provide pro-active advice on both tactical and broader strategic issues.

Our group plays an important role in advising major local government and major private and public sector organisations in industries including education, mining, all levels of government, manufacturing, financial services and insurance, electricity/resources, professional services, construction, health, aged care and technology.

With extensive experience across a wide range of industries and sectors, we provide tailored advice on the full range of workplace relations issues.

Our lawyers can assist you with:

Industrial relations

advising on compliance with federal and state industrial relations legislation
strategic industrial relations advice
negotiating, facilitating and drafting workplace agreements
advising and representing clients in all industrial commissions, tribunals and courts, including on unfair dismissal claims
formal and informal dispute resolution
assisting employers to effectively manage workplace change and restructuring
change management.

Employment law

interpreting, drafting and negotiating employment and contractor agreements
drafting and assisting employers with implementation of company policies and procedures
drafting and enforcing confidentiality agreements and restraints of trade
advising on preservation of confidential information and intellectual property
advising on performance management, disciplinary and termination processes
management of ill and injured workers
reviews and appeals from workers’ compensation decisions.

Discrimination

developing and implementing workplace policies and procedures
conducting workplace training
advice and representation in defence of discrimination claims
undertaking workplace investigations into alleged discrimination and harassment
Tribunal applications seeking exemptions from the operation of discrimination law.

Workplace health and safety

advising on compliance and risk management
developing and implementing workplace health and safety policies and procedures
delivering training programs on compliance issues and risk management
advising on investigations of workplace accidents resulting in fatalities and/or serious injury
defence of prosecutions
coronial inquiries.