Workplace Relations & Safety
Our work in this area is often highly sensitive but some of the high profile transactions we have recently been involved in include:
- Assisting employers with successfully defeating scope order applications in Fair Work Australia;
- Providing advice on the application of new executive termination payment laws;
- Successfully defending a number of employers in relation to claims brought under the new 'adverse action' provisions;
- Advising on the IR and OSH strategy for the construction and operations of a new copper mine in the Mid-West;
- Conducting numerous sensitive workplace investigations;
- Helping to resolve a number of long-running and complex ill or injured employee cases;
- Successfully applying to vary a modern award;
- Advising in relation to Australia's first 'low paid bargaining' application; and
- Advising construction companies on issues related to IR strategy and unlawful industrial action.