What we Do

1. Employment Contracts & Agreements

Clear, compliant employment documentation helps prevent future disputes and aligns your business with workplace laws. We can:

  • Draft tailored employment contracts.

  • Prepare executive service agreements, as well as services agreements for professional services in the medical and dental industries

  • Review and update existing contracts to ensure compliance with the Fair Work Act and modern awards

  • Advise on contractual clauses and breaches of employment agreements

  • Assist with negotiations for contracts and in resolving contract disputes

2. Workplace Policies, Compliance & Audits

Strong policies protect your business, clarify expectations, and create a safer, more inclusive workplace. We can assist you by:

  • Drafting and reviewing workplace policies

  • Developing employee handbooks and codes of conduct

  • Conducting workplace compliance audits to identify legal risks

  • Advising on policy implementation, training, and enforcement

  • Ensuring alignment with the Fair Work Act, WHS laws, anti-discrimination legislation, and privacy obligations

3. Hiring, Termination & Redundancy

We provide guidance throughout the employment lifecycle, from onboarding to lawful termination, including:

  • Advising on recruitment practices, job descriptions, and onboarding compliance

  • Supporting performance management and disciplinary processes

  • Drafting lawful termination letters, redundancy notices, and separation agreements

  • Providing advice on unfair dismissal and general protections risks, and lawful grounds for termination

  • Managing restructures and redundancy processes in compliance with legal obligations

4. Dispute Resolution & Litigation

When employment disputes arise, we help you respond with strategy, confidence, and legal strength, including:

  • Representing employers in unfair dismissal, general protections, flexible work disputes, bullying, and other claims in the Fair Work Commission

  • Defending underpayment and wage recovery claims

  • Managing discrimination, harassment, and victimisation disputes

  • Advising on negotiated settlements, mediation, and conciliation processes

  • Representing clients before the Fair Work Commission, Human Rights Commissions, civil courts and State Industrial Commissions

5. Workplace Investigations

Independent, confidential investigations help employers manage risk and ensure procedural fairness. We:

  • Advise on workplace investigations into misconduct, bullying, harassment, fraud, or WHS breaches

  • Review investigation reports and advise on recommendations

  • Advise on disciplinary outcomes and procedural fairness

  • Support internal HR teams with guidance, templates, and compliance

  • Manage legal risk when allegations involve senior staff or complex workplace dynamics

6. Training & Workplace Education

Proactive legal training helps prevent issues before they arise and strengthens organisational culture. We deliver:

  • Customised training on employment law, including management processes, terminations, discrimination, bullying, and harassment

  • Manager and HR team briefings on termination processes, performance management, and investigations

  • Legislative updates and compliance training (e.g. wage theft laws, right to disconnect, psychosocial risk)

  • In-house workshops and webinars tailored to your business and industry

  • Practical guidance with real case studies and legal insights

7. Executive Remuneration & Senior Staff Issues

We help businesses navigate high-stakes employment arrangements with senior personnel, including:

  • Drafting and advising on executive service agreements, incentive schemes, and bonus structures

  • Negotiating exit strategies and high-value separation agreements

  • Managing disputes involving restraint clauses, confidential information, and share schemes

  • Advising on board-level HR governance, compliance, and accountability

  • Resolving sensitive disputes discreetly and commercially

8. Industrial Relations & Enterprise Bargaining

We navigate the complexities of workplace relations with legal insight and practical strategy and provide assistance by:

  • Advising on award coverage, award-free roles, and enterprise agreement compliance

  • Negotiating enterprise agreements and assisting with Fair Work Commission approval

  • Representing clients in protected industrial action and bargaining disputes

  • Advising on union right of entry, consultation obligations, and workplace change

  • Supporting internal IR strategy and communication with employees

9. Contractor and Subcontracting Arrangements

We help businesses structure lawful, practical contractor relationships that reduce risk and withstand scrutiny, including:

  • Drafting independent contractor agreements and service contracts tailored to your business

  • Advising on whether a worker is a true contractor or employee (sham contracting risk)

  • Reviewing existing arrangements for compliance with the Fair Work Act, ATO guidelines, State Revenue guidelines, and relevant case law

  • Managing disputes over entitlements, termination, or alleged employment status

  • Supporting businesses that engage subcontractors through platforms, partnerships, or labour hire, including support with the ‘Same Work Same Pay’ provisions

  • Advising on superannuation, tax withholding, payroll tax, and leave obligations 

  • Defending claims  involving contractors

Our Testimonials

We’re not just lawyers – we’re problem-solvers.

Trusted by business owners, professionals and families.

‘We engaged Margherite for an employment matter for our small business. She was very approachable, took her time to explain the law in a very simplistic way and answered all the questions we had. She clearly explained all of the available options and then worked with us to get the solution we were after. Highly recommend her services!’

John Duckworth
Automotive Industry