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Workplace Relations, Employment & Safety

Advice and representation tailored to the practical realities of the contemporary workplace

Australia's workplace laws are complex and constantly evolving, creating new obligations and challenges for employers across every industry.

Turks' Workplace Relations, Employment & Safety team provides practical, commercially focused advice designed to help employers manage risk, respond to workplace issues and create safe and productive workplaces. Our advice is informed by a deep understanding of our clients' relevant industry and sector, combined with extensive dispute resolution and litigation experience.

We work with organisations of all sizes, from privately owned businesses and not-for-profits through to large corporates, government agencies and employers operating across multiple states and territories within Australia.

How We Can Help

Workforce Management

  • Employment contracts
  • Independent contractor arrangements
  • Drafting and reviewing workplace policies and procedures
  • Performance and conduct management
  • Bullying, harassment and anti-discrimination claims
  • Interpretation of awards and enterprise agreements
  • Managing ill and injured workers
  • Executive employment issues
  • Restructures and redundancies
  • Labour hire arrangements and labour hire licensing
  • Underpayment and pay remediation
  • Regulator investigations and enforcement action
  • Safeguarding, child safety and reportable conduct
  • Managing volunteers
  • Whistleblower reports
  • Worker screening requirements (including Working with Children Checks and NDIS Checks)
  • Long service leave and portable long service leave obligations
  • Advice on entitlements in transfers of business and due diligence
  • Unfair dismissal and general protections claims
  • Workplace investigations

Industrial Relations

  • Enterprise bargaining negotiations
  • Approval and drafting of enterprise agreements
  • Industrial action and collective disputes

Health & Safety 

  • WHS compliance
  • Notifiable incident response
  • Regulatory investigations
  • Enforcement action and prosecutions
  • Psychosocial hazards
  • Management of ill and injured workers

Why Turks

We understand that workplace issues are rarely just legal issues. They involve people, reputational risk, operational pressures and commercial realities.

Our lawyers provide advice that is tailored to our clients’ needs and helps them to make confident decisions, manage risk and resolve issues before they become disputes. Where formal proceedings cannot be avoided, we bring extensive litigation and advocacy experience to achieve the best possible outcome for our clients.

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