Investigate misconduct in your workplace

Investigate misconduct in your workplace We will run or guide the investigation so the findings are sound and whatever you do next is defensible. An allegation of misconduct puts two employees in your care at once. The person who complained needs to see it taken seriously. The person accused is entitled to know what is […]

Employ Australians from overseas

Employ Australians from overseas We will help you employ people in Australia as a foreign business, on arrangements that comply from the first payslip. Employing someone in Australia does not import your own employment law with them. Australian workplace law applies to work performed in Australia. It does not matter where the employer sits, what […]

Respond to an underpayment claim

Respond to an underpayment claim We will work out what is actually owed, and help you deal with it before it becomes something larger. Most underpayment is not deliberate. It comes from a misclassified role, or an award nobody realised applied. Or an annualised salary that stopped covering the hours worked, or a rate that […]

Respond to an unfair dismissal claim

Respond to an unfair dismissal claim We will help you defend the claim, get it off your desk, and get back to running the business. The form arrives with a deadline on it. The employee has twenty-one days from the dismissal to lodge, and you have seven days from service to file your response. That […]

Hire a senior employee on the right terms

Hire a senior employee on the right terms We will get the contract right for a senior hire, so the things that matter are settled before they start. A senior hire is agreed at the point when both sides most want it to work. That is exactly when the difficult terms are easiest to settle […]

End an employee’s employment lawfully

End an employee’s employment lawfully We will help you end the employment cleanly, on terms that hold up if anyone tests them later. There are two questions in every dismissal and they are not the same question. Is there a good reason? And can you show the employee was treated fairly on the way to […]

Hold a former employee to their restraint and confidentiality

Hold a former employee to their restraint and confidentiality We will move quickly to stop the breach, and tell you honestly what your clause is actually worth. Restraint matters are decided by how fast you move. A business that acts in the first fortnight can usually get an injunction and preserve what is left. A […]

Set up an employee share or option scheme

Set up an employee share or option scheme We will design a scheme that gives your team real upside without handing them a tax bill they cannot pay. Most employee share schemes have been intended for about a year before they exist. The reason for the delay is almost always the same. The tax treatment […]

Put your employment contracts on a sound footing

Put your employment contracts on a sound footing We will bring your employment documents up to date, so the terms you rely on are the ones that actually apply. Most businesses are using an employment contract somebody adapted years ago from something else. It has been copied for every hire since. In that time the […]

Manage an underperforming employee

Manage an underperforming employee We will help you address underperformance in a way that is fair to the employee and safe for the business. Most underperformance has been going on for a while before anyone rings a lawyer. That is the first problem. The conversations were had informally, nothing was written down, and the employee […]