The service provided to clients by the Workplace Relations team at Colin Biggers & Paisley ranges from cost-effective risk management advice to dispute resolution between stakeholders. We advise on all aspects of industrial law and assist human resources professionals and executive management of business. The team understands the traditional legal context of employment relationships as well as the brave new world of the Federal Government’s Work Choices reforms.

Our Workplace Relations team offers services and advice in the following areas:

• Contract drafting
• Representation in all courts and tribunals, both in employment and contractor matters
• Employment contracts, the interpretation of awards and related instruments, the wording of restraints of employment clauses
• Large and small scale industrial restructures
• Termination of employees – unfair contract, unfair dismissal and breach of contract
• Discrimination and harassment issues and claims
• Notification of disputes to various industrial tribunals, particularly with respect to secondary boycott issues and of the freedom of association provisions of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth)
• Legal issues involving the bargaining of collective agreements
• Industrial due diligence and transmission of employment issues relating to the merger and acquisition of entities
• Advice to liquidators and other insolvency practitioners on the termination of employees and the allocation of priorities
• Strategic workplace relations
• Employee entitlements and employment conditions
• The compliance of corporate policy documents, safety manuals and employee communication and training arrangements with relevant laws
• Occupational health and safety breaches and coronial inquests, advice on content and the redrafting of occcupational health and safety policy documents and manuals
• Employment issues arising from changing workplace arrangements, such as outsourcing
• Defending construction entities from prosecutions by the Australian Building and Construction Commission (formerly BIT) for alleged breaches of the Freedom of Association provisions of the Workplace Relations Act

Our team regularly advises HR professionals, employees and senior executives on legal issues arising in the workplace. In particular, numerous complex industrial law issues often involving different and competing areas of law.

Our clients come from industries including construction, publishing, pharmaceuticals, retirement villages, manufacturing and the wine industry.
 
Contact the Colin Biggers & Paisley Workplace Relations team by telephone on +612 8281 4555 or by email at workplace@cbp.com.au.