About
Provided by Herbert Smith Freehills
Our Australian employment, industrial relations and safety team helps clients with their most challenging contentious, transactional and advisory matters. The team is regarded as one of Australia’s premier practices, having been at the forefront of Australia’s major workplace cases over the last 30 years. Across Australia we have more than 90 dedicated professionals in the areas of employment, industrial relations and safety law.
The team provides cutting-edge technical expertise to multinational corporations, leading national businesses, financial institutions and public sector bodies, helping manage and mitigate the impact of high-profile disputes and claims. We advise on the full range of employment and related issues, providing strategic support and advocacy for employers in relation to executive and management incentive issues, collective and individual disputes, equal opportunity employment, bullying, termination of employment, transfer of business, workplace investigations and whistleblower issues.
Our team of expert WHS lawyers partners with clients to support on all aspects of safety and crisis management, including incident response and advisory. We manage the overlapping issues relating to psychosocial hazards in the workplace arising from workplace conduct and the right to disconnect.
