Employment
OpusRed offers pragmatic, cost-effective and strategic advice to organisations on how to effectively address workplace issues when they arise and to minimise legal risk. Whether your company or organisation is large or small, corporate or public sector, our lawyers have the experience to assist you.
OpusRed provides quality, relevant and practical advice on a wide range of employment issues, including:
- Employment contracts and independent contractor agreements
- Employee entitlements and compliance under industrial instruments and workplace legislation
- Organisational change, restructures, redundancies and transfer of business
- Corporate due diligence
- Enforceability of restraints of trade and confidentiality clauses
- Dealing with misconduct, including workplace bullying, sexual harassment, discrimination and breaches of policies, procedures and codes of conduct
- Employee underperformance
- Complaint-handling and dismissal policies and procedures
- Employees with long-term illness or injury
- Recruitment policies and procedures
- Occupational health & safety
- Workplace privacy
OpusRed is experienced in advising clients on all aspects of workplace disputes, including:
- advice on employer obligations and fairness issues prior to disciplinary action or dismissal
- advice on responding to and managing workplace disputes before they escalate
- advising and acting on behalf of clients in employment-related disputes, including unfair dismissal claims, adverse action claims, discrimination complaints, applications to stop bullying
OpusRed lawyers have represented clients in employment-related matters in the Magistrates’ Court, Federal Court, Federal Circuit Court, Fair Work Commission and VCAT.