Employment and Workplace

Ellem Warren Napa Lawyers provides all the employment and workplace solutions that businesses need.

Our areas of expertise includes:

  • Advocacy and Dispute Resolution

  • Bullying, Discrimination and Harassment

  • Business Transfer and Insolvency issues

  • Collective Agreements / Enterprise Bargaining

  • Contractor / Labour Hire Management

  • Employment Contracts

  • HR Planning and Structuring

  • Incident investigations

  • Performance and Discipline management

  • Policy and Procedure development

  • Restraints and Confidentiality Protection

  • Unfair Dismissals

  • Workplace Health and Safety

Our experience includes:

  • Reviewing engagement arrangements for a variety of businesses, including several in the construction, resources, manufacturing and transport industries, a national medical chain, a national accounting practice and a national contract cleaning business

  • Employment contracts, including for executives with bonus, profit share and incentive schemes; independent contractor agreements; collective / enterprise agreements

  • Developing workplace and privacy policies, including dealing with internet and email, alcohol and drug testing, bullying and discrimination, discipline, termination and procedural fairness

  • Workplace health and safety advisory, including for mine sites, construction involving labour hire, and manufacturing

  • Advising in regard to preserved entitlements and transitional issues for transfers of businesses and in insolvency

  • Claims for damages and injunctive relief, for both employers and employees, in regard to restraints, confidentiality, intellectual property and “poaching” claims

  • Handling numerous unfair dismissal claims, and discrimination and bullying claims, including for and against employers, for example: pregnant woman against a marketing agency; taxi drivers against newspaper; and criminal record discrimination in the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

  • Investigations and handling of alleged criminal misconduct, including fraud and theft by a bookkeeper and sexual harassment and assault in a real estate office, and referral to the police

  • Acting for a national labour hire business, and for joint venture parties on a mining infrastructure project, handling a range of issues involving overlapping responsibility

If you’re looking for an employment or workplace lawyer in Brisbane, be sure to contact Ellem Warren Napa Lawyers.