Employment relationships increasingly involve complex legal, regulatory and commercial considerations. Businesses require advice that not only addresses immediate employment issues, but also considers workforce strategy, regulatory compliance, employee relations and the potential for disputes.
Our practice advises employers, senior executives and employees across the full spectrum of employment-related matters. We provide practical and commercially focused advice on workplace issues, employment documentation, workforce management and industrial relations, while also representing clients in contentious employment and industrial disputes.
Advising on employment contracts, senior executive arrangements, employment policies, employee handbooks, confidentiality and restrictive covenants, remuneration structures and other workplace documentation.
Advising employers on the development and implementation of workplace policies and procedures, disciplinary frameworks, workplace conduct and compliance with applicable employment and industrial relations requirements.
Advising employers on investigations, misconduct allegations, performance management, domestic inquiries, disciplinary action and termination processes, with a focus on procedural and substantive risk management.
Advising on termination of employment, resignation, negotiated exits, severance arrangements, retrenchment and redundancy exercises, including the management of potential claims and disputes – including the drafting of the necessary documentation.
Advising employers and employees on industrial relations matters, including trade union issues, collective bargaining, recognition disputes, industrial action and proceedings before the relevant industrial relations authorities and courts.
Representing employers, senior executives and employees in claims arising from wrongful or unfair dismissal, breach of employment contracts, unpaid remuneration and benefits, restrictive covenants, confidentiality obligations and other employment-related disputes.
Advising businesses on workforce restructuring, redundancy and retrenchment exercises, business reorganisations, changes in employment arrangements and other workforce transition matters.
Advising directors, senior executives and businesses on high-value and sensitive employment arrangements, including executive appointments, departures, post-termination restrictions, confidentiality, remuneration and disputes.
