Employers operating in Australia must navigate numerous workforce management challenges, ranging from navigating legal risks arising from flexible work to enforcing standards of conduct.
At Turks, whether you are hiring, restructuring or managing difficult performance or conduct issues, we provide commercial, cost-effective guidance designed to minimise risk and support a productive workforce.
We assist clients with:
- Drafting employment contracts and independent contractor agreements
- Drafting and reviewing workplace policies
- Managing staff performance and conduct
- Dealing with high-conflict staffing issues, including bullying, discrimination, sexual harassment claims, and executive employment matters
- Restructuring and redundancies
- Labour hire and independent contractor arrangements
- Underpayment claims
- Interpretation of awards and enterprise agreements
- Advising on employee entitlements in cross-border transactions and transfers of business
- Representing clients in unfair dismissal, general protections, and anti-discrimination cases
- Workplace investigations
- Dealing with enforcement action brought by government regulators (Fair Work Ombudsman, WHS regulators, and sector-specific regulators)