Industrial Relations and Employment Law
Employment and Workplace Lawyers
Bird & Bird acts for organisations on the employment side of people management, from the documents that set the relationship up to the claims that follow when it breaks down, with its Australian practice run from one Sydney office.
- Documents and policies: drafting standard policy documents, including disciplinary and grievance procedures, consultancy agreements, written terms of employment and employee handbooks.
- Dismissals and claims: advice on dismissals, backed by a disputes practice that handles employment claims and litigation where a matter cannot be closed out by advice alone.
- Equal opportunities and pay: specialists focused on equal opportunities, pay and discrimination issues, so the advice and any resulting litigation sit with one team.
- Industrial relations: help for employers handling industrial relations, collective issues and group action employment claims, alongside restrictive covenants and court remedies such as injunctions.
Best for: employers wanting an international firm’s employment advice from an Australian office, where a matter may cross into another of the firm’s jurisdictions.