Employment, Labour & Safety
Protecting your people, your business, and your reputation.
From compliance to crisis, we help employers navigate legal risk with confidence.
From compliance to crisis, we help employers navigate legal risk with confidence.
We help employers navigate Australia’s dynamic and often high-stakes employment law environment, from day-to-day workforce compliance to complex disputes and industrial matters. Our advice is clear, commercial, and focused on managing legal, reputational, and operational risk.
Whether implementing workplace change, managing sensitive terminations, responding to claims, or engaging with regulators, we provide strategic support across the full spectrum of employment law. We work with boards, executives, and in-house teams to design legally sound, commercially aligned solutions that support long-term workforce strategy.
Our team is experienced in advising on enterprise bargaining, investigations, whistleblower issues, safety obligations, and executive exits. We support employers through critical inflection points, including restructures, litigation, class actions, and reputational risk events, helping them maintain compliance and workplace integrity while advancing commercial objectives.
How we can help
We advise employers across industries on the full spectrum of employment matters, including:
- Drafting and implementing employment, contractor, and executive agreements.
- Advising on enforceability of post-employment restraints and confidentiality obligations.
- Managing complex workforce transitions, restructures, and outsourcing.
- Designing policies, procedures, and compliance programs.
- Unfair dismissal claims, general protections applications, and contract disputes.
- Employment-related class actions, underpayment claims, and enterprise agreement disputes.
- Crisis response and litigation involving whistleblower, bullying, harassment, or discrimination claims.
- Representation before the Fair Work Commission, state and Federal courts.
- Enterprise bargaining strategy and negotiations.
- Union engagement and dispute management.
- Industrial action response and protected action ballot advice.
- Advising on WHS compliance obligations, risk controls, and incident response.
- Support in investigations by regulators and coronial inquests.
- Managing return-to-work obligations and psychological safety risk.
Protecting what matters most.
We partner with employers to manage legal risk and workplace change. Whether you are navigating a dispute, implementing change, or planning ahead, we provide legal insight grounded in strategy and experience.
