Specialist Corporate and Commercial Lawyers
Employment Law / Industrial Relations
Specialist legal advice on employment contract negotiation, management of employees, termination advice, workplace bullying, discrimination and enterprise agreements.
How we can help
SWS Lawyers regularly advises employers in relation to all aspects of employment law, assisting our clients to effectively manage their employees and workplace. We routinely provide advice in relation to contract preparation and negotiation, the management of employees (including performance management and termination of employment), and we regularly act on behalf of employers when disputes arise.
- Drafting and negotiation of enterprise agreements
- Drafting and negotiation of employment contracts
- Advising on termination of employment including dismissal and redundancy
- Restraints of trade
- Assisting with the management of workplace disputes
- Drafting workplace policies
- Enforcement of Confidentiality and Other Employee Obligations
- Discrimination
- Employment Contracts and Workplace Policies
- Enforcement of Employee Restraints
- Enterprise Agreements
- Underpayment claims, pay structures and modern award interpretation
- Workplace disputes and termination of employment
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practical solutions.
SWS Lawyers regularly advises employers in relation to all aspects of employment law, assisting our clients to effectively manage their employees and workplace. We routinely provide advice in relation to contract preparation and negotiation, the management of employees (including performance management and termination of employment) and we regularly act on behalf of employers when disputes arise.
Our team understands the needs of our clients for prompt and practical solution-based advice to assist with the effective management of their workforce. Where disputes arise our team has experience in all the relevant courts and tribunals including the Fair Work Commission, the Federal Court of Australia, the Federal Circuit Court, the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board and the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Our experience includes:
- Acting on behalf of an employer in relation to misappropriation of funds by an employee in excess of $1m.
- Acting on behalf of an employer in relation to a bullying claim in the Fair Work Commission involving extensive cross organisation allegations.
- Regularly advising employers in relation to employee restraint matters.
- Advising an employer in relation to the implementation of an enterprise agreement involving interstate employees.
- Regularly acting for and advising employers in relation to the allegations involving unfair dismissal, general protection claims and discrimination allegations.
Their approach is always professional and delivered at a standard comparable to a capital city law firm. It is the clear strategic direction that has always impressed me about the SWS team.
We believe their ability to combine first rate legal expertise, commercial judgement and strong negotiating skills is rare amongst lawyers and provides us with a real competitive advantage in corporate transactions. We use SWS because of their ability, not their post code.
The combination of rare legal expertise, commercial judgement and strong negotiating skills is rare amongst lawyers and provides us with a real competitive advantage in corporate transactions.
SWS has assisted with advice on securing and exercising complex property and commercial contractual rights and assisting with protracted contractual management and implementation. We value legal experts who can offer pragmatic and commercial legal solutions for our complicated matters. SWS Lawyers has consistently met these criteria.
The team at SWS Lawyers have already showcased their professionalism, commitment, positive can-do attitude and insight into our needs and have a clear understanding of the disability sector.
