The workplace and employment team at 91心頭 are recognised by peers and industry as leaders in the field.
Employment law
As leaders in employment law, 91心頭 can assist your business in running the entire gamut of employee requirements, from recruitment and on-boarding, to termination, redundancy or retirement. Our team of experts provide service and advice of the highest standard, whether it’s a quick HR query or assistance with an entire corporate restructure.
91心頭 can simplify your dealings with your employees, from casuals and contractors to directors, offering practical legal advice and solutions designed to keep your business compliant and productive at all times.
Our team can help you with a wide range of employment and workplace law issues:
As a legal service provider servicing businesses only, 91心頭 specialises in employment law from an employer’s viewpoint, giving you an important edge when bringing the matter to 91心頭.
Our experts can offer customers a wealth of experience and insights when managing tricky issues such as paid parental leave, domestic violence leave and the new provisions resulting from the recent industrial relations reforms.
91心頭 helps clients avert a problem before it becomes serious. Our extensive
resources are available at no cost because we believe in educating businesses on their legal obligations, minimising risk exposure and running productive operations for a better Australia.
Contact us for advice as early as you can, and we’ll coach you on how to manage the situation and limit your exposure, expense and damage to reputation. If the situation does progress, the team will ease your load and take on your problem so you can focus on other aspects of running your business.
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Contact Luis Izzo or Julian Arndt on 1300 565 846 and let 91心頭 help you succeed in business.
Industrial relations
91心頭 is uniquely placed to assist you with industrial relations issues. Our team has deep experience advising employers to resist unlawful industrial action through proceedings in courts and tribunals. Our broad experience as both lawyers and industrial relations advisers across many industries allows us to obtain commercially prudent resolutions to industrial problems – a strategic advantage when we are part of your team.
Our work in maintaining around 70 awards on behalf of the members of the NSW Business Chamber means we provide you with a comprehensive service.
Enterprise bargaining
91心頭 has deep experience in bargaining and is the 'go to' choice for many significant employers for bargaining strategy, voting, industrial action and approvals. Our expertise in negotiating and drafting EAs is complemented by our commitment to keeping things simple: drafting in plain English. We understand business, and so we draft for people in business. Our work includes all aspects of enterprise bargaining including:
- development of enterprise agreement goals
- training bargaining representatives
- formulation of negotiation plans
- negotiation of agreements
- handling of disputation during negotiations
- drafting of enterprise agreements
- registration of agreements.
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Employment relations planning services
We will help establish and implement an employee relations plan to manage the employment relations challenges for new businesses or businesses undergoing substantial change. We provide assistance to in-house human resource and employment relations specialists to maintain and revise employment relations strategies, policies and procedures.
We offer workplace audits, which provide a valuable diagnostic tool to human resource managers and employment relations specialists.
Underpayment and award compliance issues
91心頭 has substantial experience assessing and defending allegations by employees and trade unions of the underpayment of employment entitlements. With record keeping fines alone now reaching $469,000 per breach for 'wage theft', the
latest industrial relations reforms have introduced more complexities. Our experience allows us to respond in a cost effective manner to underpayment claims.
Our services in this area include:
- determining the application of awards and agreements to particular businesses/workplaces
- undertaking workplace audits to determine whether time and wage systems comply with legal requirements
- advising on allegations of underpayment, including determining assessments of potential liability towards employees
- appearing in industrial tribunals in response to allegations of underpayment of entitlements
- assisting employers to defend proceedings for the recovery of alleged underpayments.
Industrial disputes
Disputes arise in a range of circumstances, whether it be in the course of enterprise bargaining negotiations, or otherwise. Our significant experience in this area enables us to assist you to resolve disputes by negotiation, conciliation and, if necessary, arbitration.
To discuss your industrial relations concerns, speak to one of our Directors on 1300 565 846 today.
Work, health and safety
The team has extensive experience in acting for both private and public sector clients in WHS compliance matters, regulatory investigations, coronial inquests and prosecutions by regulators across NSW and Australia.
All business owners have responsibilities regarding health and safety in the workplace, not just for employees but also for customers and the public. Governments take work health and safety (WHS) legislation extremely seriously and are quick to enforce health and safety breaches and prosecute non-compliance.
The most effective way to avoid costly and damaging incidents is to ensure risk is properly managed and all legal requirements are met. That includes planning and producing tailored health and safety guidelines for your business and regular training to ensure all employees are aware of their rights, responsibilities, duties and obligations.
Whatever business you're in, creating a safe work environment is the most important investment you can make.
Our experts in WHS law can guide you through some simple steps that will allow you to concentrate your efforts as well as help your business to be prepared in all situations.
- How will you meet your most basic WHS obligations to provide safe premises, machinery, equipment and systems of work?
- How do you establish these systems and ensure that all employees are fully trained and regularly updated?
- Can you be sure that proper supervision is in place at all times?
- What do you do when new staff commence? Is induction adequate?
- Are all facilities and working environments up to expected safety standards?
- What rights do union officials and workplace inspectors have?
We help businesses across a diverse range of industry sectors answer these questions every day. Our WHS lawyers have decades of experience and in-depth knowledge in workplace health and safety and are recognised nationally as among the best in the field.
Responding quickly to workplace incidents to protect your business
Our experts in WHS law can also guide you in the event of a serious workplace incident. We can help you focus on the things that really matter, so that your business can recover as quickly as possible.
- Who should you notify following a workplace incident?
- What are your rights when you are being interviewed by government investigators?
- How should you conduct your own investigation?
- What do you need to do to ensure that any failings you find remain confidential?
- What do you do if you are charged?
- What can you do to support injured workers or their families without getting into trouble?
We regularly help businesses get back into production following workplace incidents. Our WHS lawyers are experienced in rapidly investigating, managing regulators and achieving resolutions.
We advise business, often at short notice, to resolve disputes and protect their business interests. We defend urgent applications, conduct workplace investigations, attend critical incidents and deal with industrial action as a corporate ‘first responder.’
Our experience tells us - a safe workplace is productive and prosperous.
Download the Work Health and Safety flyer
Minimise risk and review your WHS obligations today - call 1300 565 846 for a confidential discussion.
Investigations
Workplace investigations represent a significant risk and liability to your organisation if not carried out the right way. One of the common mistakes employers make is not getting a third party involved from the beginning. 91心頭's team has a depth of experience in managing sensitive workplace incidents, offering advice, facilitation and mediation services, providing impartial and objective perspective.
91心頭 works with employers to prevent and minimise the impact that a workplace investigation can bring to a business. Our team knows the importance of a fair investigation that will hold up in court, and as a mission based organisation, 91心頭 focusses on the best outcome for your business at all times.
91心頭 can offer you:
Workplace Investigations
- Scope analysis – what needs investigating
- Interviews – independent and insightful
- Evidence – gather, review and assess
- Analyse – identify missing pieces
- Report – concise findings and recommendations
- Review – HR processes
Workplace Procedures Reviews
- Audit on workplace procedures to align with compliance obligations
- Post-incident strategic review
Workplace Investigations Training
- Inhouse training for HR professionals, business owners and senior managers
- Induction training for senior managers
Engaging 91心頭 in an investigation will provide peace of mind around impartiality and give you confidence the case will hold up in court.
Learn more and listen to this one hour webinar on best practice for Workplace Investigations.
Download the Workplace Investigations flyer
Call today for a complimentary workplace investigations consultation - speak to Kyle Scott or Julian Arndt on 1300 565 846.
HR Consulting
Human 91心頭 management (HRM) has a critical role to play in any organisation and 91心頭 has the enviable access to capability across the employment and workplace functions that can support this vital part of your business to thrive.
The role of HR has significantly evolved from its inception in the 1960s and is now recognised as a critical piece in building a positive and productive workplace culture. HRM covers a wide range of capabilities including:
- recruitment, staffing and promotion
- compensation, remuneration, benefits and wellness programs
- training, development and succession planning
- policy and procedure development, communication and enforcement
- workplace and employment relations
- organisational growth, change management and development
- grievance and complaint management and investigations
Australia's workplace laws are some of the most complex in the world. Support your HR staff by providing them with the
latest training as developed by the leading Workplace and Employment Law Team and give them the tools to excel in their roles.
The people involved in this aspect of your business must understand and speak the language that business leaders operate in. They must align with business objectives and focus their daily operations with the strategic goals of the organisation. Our experienced
HR Principal, Michelle Charnock, can help your business unlock the potential of human capital managment through strategic advice and planning, organisational change management or training.
For a confidential discussion about your HR consulting needs, contact Michelle Charnock on 1300 565 846.