Areas of Service | Workplace Relations & Safety
Workplace Relations & Safety
In this Area of Service:
Middletons has a highly skilled Workplace Relations & Safety team that delivers expert legal advice in a timely and commercial manner. We act for employers, government bodies, small business and insurers on a wide range of industrial relations and employment issues.
We are acknowledged for our commercial approach and are committed to helping our clients to find practical solutions to legal issues, with full consideration of the business implications involved.
We are committed to building relationships with our clients. We develop and implement strategies that allow our clients to improve operational management and stabilise and improve workplace relations.
The team offers a comprehensive service and has considerable experience in all areas of employment and industrial relations including:
- pre-employment procedures
- recruitment
- letters of engagement
- employment contracts
- consultancy agreements and independent contractor relationships
- unfair, unlawful and wrongful termination of employment
- occupational health and safety including training, compliance, auditing and legal risk management
- negotiation, interpretation and drafting of awards, and workplace agreements
- equal opportunity employment
- discrimination and harassment
- superannuation
- outsourcing and transmission of business
- best work practice and policies and procedures manuals
- workcover and associated workplace relations issues
- privacy advice
- employment liability policies
- confidential information and restraint of trade
- compliance seminars and other internal training
- protection of intellectual property
- industrial action and union disputes
- preparation of compliance manuals.
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