Catholic Employment Relations

Catholic Employment Relations provides Employment Workplace Lawyer and Advisory from Sydney to Catholic employers, through a multidisciplinary team of employment relations specialists and lawyers who have advised Catholic employers for over 20 years.

• Employment relations advice covers bullying, unfair dismissal and adverse action, award, award free and EA contracts, flexible work and leave entitlements, over and underpayments, policies, return to work and organisational change.
• Drafts complex correspondence, attends conciliation talks and manages disciplinary and other complex matters with the employer, with a dedicated specialist assigned to each client’s matters.
• Legal services extend from contract advice and interpretation through mediation and investigation to representing the organisation in a court of law.
• Works with Catholic employers in the Diocesan, education, health, social services and aged care, and religious institute sectors.

Best for: Catholic dioceses, schools, health, aged care and social services organisations that want employment law advice delivered through a Catholic lens.

Catholic Employment Relations provides Enterprise Bargaining and Enterprise Agreement (EA) Negotiations from Sydney to Catholic employers, representing their interests in complex negotiations.

• Industrial relations specialists advise on existing awards and agreements, act as bargaining representative and help resolve industrial disputes.
• The agreement process runs through planning, commencement, bargaining, consultation and finalisation, ending with Fair Work Commission lodgement.
• Current enterprise agreements and pay guides are provided as downloadable resources.

Best for: Catholic employers entering enterprise bargaining who want a strategic bargaining representative.