HopgoodGanim's Industrial and Employment Law practitioners have a wide range of experience across all the areas of industrial and employment law that affect the modern Australian workplace. We offer a highly motivated, understanding team who are committed to creating opportunities from every situation.
Our Industrial and Employment Law team are passionate advocates and work closely with clients to deliver the optimum result based on your needs. We avoid applying a broad-brush approach or dealing in abstract theories, instead understanding that every workplace and every legal issue is as unique as people themselves.
Our specialists never lose sight of the fact that workplace law is only one part of the much larger legal and commercial environment in which clients operate. As an established commercial law firm, we adopt a holistic approach that draws on the expertise of our trade practices, insurance, corporate, business services and litigation and dispute resolution teams.
Our depth of expertise and range of experience includes the transport, leisure, construction, mining, energy, resource, manufacturing, health, not-for-profit and education sectors.
Areas of Expertise
- Negotiating and developing workplace agreements, common law agreements and collective agreements under State and Federal workplace relations law
- Negotiating and developing alternative workplace contracts and agreements including independent contracting, consultancy and 'site-for-hire' license arrangements
- Protecting your intellectual property and confidential information, including restraint of trade issues
- Resolving industrial and employment disputes
- Workplace incident investigation, internal complaint handling and dispute mediation
- Managing occupational health and safety legislation issues including incident containment and management, and defending prosecutions
- Representation in the conduct of coronial inquests and related proceedings arising out of workplace deaths
- Developing and implementing workplace policies, including those required by law
- Advising on individual performance management and termination of employment
- Managing personal issues arising out of operational change and business restructuring
- Reviewing statutory workers' compensation insurance claims
- Managing third party cases, catastrophic injuries and suspected fraud
- Complying with anti-discrimination laws and managing complaints
- Complying with workplace bullying and sexual harassment laws
- Complying with privacy laws
- Training and education for management and staff
