SUPPORTING YOUR EXTERNAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS

• Governance: Ensuring you meet your statutory compliance requirements
• Procurement: Providing advice on all third-party contracts and standards, policies, and procedures to support you to achieve desired commercial outcomes
• Property: Advising you in relation to property leases and licences and support you to manage arrangements with the occupiers effectively and efficiently
• Data and Privacy: supporting you to manage and secure your data security obligations including identifying and managing risks and potential breaches

MANAGING YOUR EMPLOYEES AND WORKPLACES

• Contracts and conditions: Negotiating enterprise agreements, interpreting Award provisions
• Performance and misconduct: Conducting workplace investigations, redundancy, and termination of employment, managing poor performance and conduct, defending general protections claims and unfair dismissal claims
• Workplace health and safety: Conducting safety audits and defending WorkSafe prosecutions
• Ill and injured employees: Undertaking fitness for duty assessments, terminating employment, defending workers’ compensation claims and advising as to premium management

RESOLVING YOUR DISPUTES

• Advice: regulatory advice concerning the interpretation and operation of legislation routinely administered by local councils to avoid the incidence of dispute
• Prosecution: Conducting summary criminal proceedings in the Magistrates’ Court for breaches of legislation administered by local councils such as building, planning, food, domestic animals, public health and wellbeing, and local laws
• Litigation: Conducting civil proceedings for breaches of licence/contract, trespassing and fencing disputes