Swaab

Swaab provides Employment Workplace Lawyer and Advisory services to employers in Sydney, guiding businesses through the Fair Work Act and the ever-changing legal and industrial environment so employee relationships stay positive while risk is managed.

• Drafts employment contracts, letters of appointment and enterprise agreements that minimise exposure to awards while emphasising clarity, flexibility and simplicity, and advises on employee statutory and award entitlements.
• Assists with terminating employees, managing employee exits, redundancy and restructuring, managing underperformance and ill or injured employees, and defending unfair dismissal claims.
• Handles complex and standard workplace investigations, employee grievances and workplace disputes, harassment and bullying matters, industrial disputes and workplace surveillance and monitoring of internet and email use.
• Advises on post-employment restraints, confidential information and privacy, anti-discrimination and diversity, right of entry, and negotiation with WorkCover, insurers and trade unions.

Best for: employers across hospitality, retail, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, finance, professional services and construction needing commercial, responsive employment law advice.

Swaab provides Workplace Health and Safety Management Systems advice to employers, helping businesses establish and maintain a sophisticated safety management system rather than addressing risk only reactively.

• Develops and reviews safety policies and formulates and delivers fully tailored WHS training, including at Board level, alongside technically sound, commercially astute WHS advice.
• Acts for employers in WHS investigations and defends SafeWork NSW prosecutions, including coronial inquests, and represents employers in court.
• Manages dealings with SafeWork NSW, unions and Health and Safety Representatives, including WHS crisis response and stakeholder management.

Best for: public and private sector employers managing WHS compliance, incident response and investigations.