Employment and Workplace Law
Whether an employer or employee, you need up-to-date advice on workplace legislation and the laws covering employment, to make sure your operations are fair, safe and lawful.
Our highly experienced lawyers can advise you on all aspects of workplace legislation, from the Fair Work Act and compliance with regulations to resolving disputes.
Hansons Lawyers employment and workplace legal services include:
- Advice on employment and executive contracts
- Advice on obligations, rights and responsibilities under the Fair Work Act
- Development of human resource manuals and workplace policies
- Employee benefits and other employment arrangements.
- Employee share schemes
- Employment issues arising from transmission of businesses
- Occupational superannuation
- Protecting confidentiality and IP in employment arrangements
We also guide clients through disciplinary and performance management issues with employees from a legal perspective, and frequently act as a back-up for human resource departments.
On the contentious side, Hansons advise employers, and individual employee clients, on a range of issues, including disputes involving:
- Contract claims
- Enforcement of restrictive covenants
- Discrimination, harassment and other statutory claims
- Wrongful and unfair dismissals
- OH&S claims and the defence of these
- Confidentiality and intellectual property
- Restraint of trade
- Termination of employment
If you are an employer, or employee looking for confidential legal support and advice on workplace or employment law issue, please get in touch and ask to speak to Tom Sherley, Ann Woods, Jeff David or Ben Pike
