Workplace Relations
Workplace Relations
Page Seager delivers the full range of workplace relations services for the private and public sector. Our experienced team is highly specialised with a demonstrated record of successfully advising and representing employers in the workplace.
Local knowledge. National Experience
Our size enables us to provide expert advice, resources and services wherever business needs. Our team members have developed a unique local knowledge of not only most of the employee representatives but of the workings and protocols of industrial tribunals as well.
Page Seager is the only large Tasmanian law firm with a Workplace Relations Department containing dedicated specialist workplace relations lawyers. We deliver the full range of workplace relations services for the private and public sector. We provide advice tailored to our clients’ operational requirements and workplace culture by adopting a partnering approach with them.
Our Clients
Our clients range from large corporations through to medium size companies and small employers. Industries serviced include:
- State Owned Companies and Government Business Enterprises
- Utilities
- Local Government
- Transport
- Aquaculture
- Mining
- Building and construction
- Manufacturing
- Retail
- Health
- Education
- Not for Profit Organisations
Our Services
Employment
- Preparing contracts of employment that are consistent with business objectives
- Reviewing policies which may be contractually enforced and providing effective policies
- Recruitment and performance management
- Restraints of trade and protecting confidential information and intellectual property
- Advice and representation regarding termination of employment claims including unfair dismissal and redundancy
- Employment consequences of restructuring and transfers of business
Industrial Relations
- Enterprise bargaining including negotiating and preparing effective workplace agreements
- Dealing with industrial disputes
- Union right of entry in the workplace and strategies regarding direct employee relationships
- Auditing regarding compliance with workplace legislation and risk minimisation strategies
- Advising on employee entitlements and employer obligations and defending workplace prosecutions
- Arrangements with independent contractors to meet business requirements and assessing the effect of the Independent Contractors Act 2006
Equal Opportunity/ Anti-Discrimination
- Procedures and training to minimise claims and representation to resolve disputes regarding anti- discrimination, bullying and harassment and privacy issues
- Conducting workplace investigations and providing comprehensive reports
Advocacy
- Representation as counsel before the Federal Court, Federal Magistrates Court, Supreme Court, Magistrates Court, Fair Work Australia, Tasmanian Industrial Commission, Anti-Discrimination Tribunal and Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
Workplace Training
- Develop and present tailored training programs to assist our clients minimise legal liability and develop their staff in the full range of employment, industrial relations and equal opportunity/ anti- discrimination matters.
- Conduct management workshops to improve performance and align cultural and strategic objectives.
- Deliver seminars or briefings to Executive/ Board level on specific matters of risk or interest.