Employment

We advise clients across a range of industries in both the public and private sectors about: 

Workforce strategy and consulting	Workplace risk and compliance	Executive remuneration and benefits	Workplace disputes	Workplace advisory
Workforce engagement models	Executive advisory and compliance	Incentives and employee share plans	Employment claims and bargaining disputes	Performance, discipline and termination
Restructuring and workplace change	Safety audits and due diligence	Executive employment contracts	Safety prosecutions and coronials	Investigations and mediations
Bargaining and union claims	Employment audits and compliance	Pensions and superannuation	Executive litigation and restraints	Contracts, policies and procedures
Global migration and executive mobility	Workplace training		Crisis and reputation management	Data protection and privacy
Business immigration	Outsourcing and supply chain compliance			Discrimination, bullying and harassment

Partnering with you to manage your key business asset: people

Our global employment team delivers incisive legal advice and pragmatic solutions to multinational clients on all aspects of employment law. We advise across all advisory, transactional and contentious issues.

Discreet, trusted and incisive

We advise on highly confidential and sensitive board matters and are recognised for providing strategic, robust, commercially driven advice in a timely manner. We have many long standing clients who come to us as their trusted advisers on matters ranging from day-to-day HR queries to group strategy impacting corporate reputation and wider commercial objectives.

End to end service: the entire employment relationship

We advise on all legal, strategic and practical issues arising out of the employment or engagement of employees, workers, directors, consultants and contractors, from their recruitment, terms and conditions, retention and motivation to performance management, investigation, dismissal, redundancy and retirement.

A long-standing adviser to the financial, resources and infrastructure industries

As a trusted adviser to many of the world's largest banks, resources and infrastructure businesses, we advise on business critical employment and regulatory issues and investigations. We understand your industry and can guide your business through all day-to-day and strategic employment issues.

Employment Law Handbook 

Due to popular demand, we have converted our Asia-Pacific Employment Law Employer's Handbook into an online Employment Law Handbook, with country and topic search functionality. The Handbook is a value add offering for our key Employment clients. 

Now in their 5th edition, the Asia-Pacific chapters of the Handbook cover:

• Australia
• Cambodia
• Hong Kong
• India
• Indonesia
• Japan
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• New Zealand
• Papua New Guinea
• People's Republic of China
• Philippines
• Singapore
• South Korea
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• Timor Leste (New)
• Vietnam

New European chapters are expected to follow later this year.