Workplace Structuring

Establishing a robust and tailored employment framework and strategy is critical to your business’s success. Part of your industrial strategy involves choosing the instruments to regulate your employment relationships, such as contracts of employment or enterprise agreements, and understanding how they interact with statutory instruments. You should also incorporate policies and procedures aimed at how your employment relationships will be administered, the standards of conduct and performance expected of those working within your business and how any failure to meet those standards will be handled by the business. These policies and procedures should give clear guidance to your employees, while protecting your business to the greatest extent possible. Carefully drafted documents are an effective tool to shield your business from liability in a range of claims, including unfair dismissal, general protections, work health and safety, sexual harassment and discrimination.

This is no easy task and requires a holistic understanding of your business’ strategic objectives and expert knowledge of the complex web of employment regulation in Australia. Whether you are still in the planning stage or a well-established business, MV Law has the expertise to assist you with your industrial relations framework and strategy. We can assist you to determine whether a modern award applies to your staff, and if so, whether it would be beneficial to your business to instead negotiate an enterprise agreement. We can also draft employment agreements and policies and procedures tailored specifically for your business.

Call our experienced employment lawyers today for all your business’ employment and industrial relations needs.