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Employment.

Nurture the performance of your people and protect yourself and your organisation.

"We help at every step of the employment lifecycle.

Our intuitive and preemptive approach will strengthen your workplace culture and build your reputation as an

Employer-of-choice in the market."

Industrial
Relations

We advise and act on industrial relations matters, ranging from enterprise bargaining strategies, negotiating, reviewing and drafting enterprise agreements to approval applications, right of entry and other industrial disputes and claims.

Work Health 
and Safety

We know worker safety is a priority and take a proactive approach with clients to implement and maintain compliant work health and safety policies and frameworks. When issues do occur we guide businesses through the process and assist in dealing with work, health and safety authorities from initial response and investigation through to enforcement action, defended prosecutions or enforceable undertaking outcomes. 

Employee Relationships

We are here to help you attract, retain and develop the best talent. We offer legal and strategic advice on workplace disputes, termination, redundancies, policies, superannuation, contracts and award interpretation and privacy issues. We both conduct and advise on investigations.  We act in all employment-related litigation ranging from unfair dismissal to enforcement of post-employment obligations.

Employment
Documentation

We draft employment related documents, including employment and independent contractor agreements, policies and procedures, confidentiality and restraint agreements and incentive schemes.

Risk
Management

We develop and facilitate strategies and processes for identifying and managing workplace risk including: award and agreement compliance, sexual harassment, bullying, workplace health and safety and pay equity. We work with boards and executive teams on the best ways to minimise workplace risk ensuring their organisations are ready for the future.   

Mergers, Acquisitions, Restructures & Business Transfers

Our team can help with all employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, restructure and transfer of business, including employment due diligence and preparing transaction documentation.

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Workshops & Training

We design and conduct training programs for your employees and managers on workplace behaviours and company policies including discrimination, bullying, harassment, grievances and work health and safety.

 

This extends to manager training and board member inductions. Arming and empowering every layer of your workforce with the skills and tools they need to succeed.

 

We run sessions throughout the year and bespoke sessions for our clients. We are introducing a range of online courses, you can register your interest below. 

Lvl 6, 9 Barrack Street, Sydney, NSW 2000,

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PO Box 4313, Sydney, NSW, 2001.

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Ph: +61 2 8224 0200

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

Henry William Lawyers acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land where we work and live, the Gadigal of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We celebrate the stories, culture and traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders of all communities who also work and live on this land.

Henry William Lawyers is an incorporated legal practice (which is a corporation for the purposes of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)), and not a partnership.  The use of the title ‘Partner’ is used to denote seniority and does not, and is not, intended to signify that Henry William Lawyers is a partnership or is contracting otherwise than as a corporation.

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