Winter Workplace Consulting

Winter Workplace Consulting provides Employment Workplace Lawyer and Advisory services to organisations across Australia from its Brisbane base, led by practising employment lawyer Belinda Winter.

• Belinda Winter has over two decades of experience in employment law and workplace strategy, including time as a partner of a large law firm, and has been listed in Best Lawyers Australia for more than 10 consecutive years.
• Services include legal advice for employers, employment contracts, award compliance, annualised salary reviews and payroll audits, and support with unfair dismissal and jurisdictional objection matters.
• Published guidance covers Fair Work Commission decisions such as high income threshold calculations and remuneration structuring for unfair dismissal eligibility, as well as annual wage review changes to award and minimum wages.
• Advisory work extends to workforce planning and reviewing flexible work and work from home policies in response to proposed legislative reform in Victoria.

Best for: Australian employers needing practical employment law advice on contracts, award compliance and unfair dismissal risk from an experienced workplace lawyer.

Winter Workplace Consulting also delivers Workplace Investigations for Australian employers, led by workplace lawyer and trained investigator Belinda Winter.

• Investigations are described as fair, discreet and legally sound, focused on establishing facts efficiently while maintaining procedural fairness.
• A dedicated training module, Workplace Investigations: Getting it Right, teaches leaders when investigations are required and how to avoid common procedural mistakes.
• Investigations are delivered alongside related workplace behaviour and psychosocial hazard training, drawing on Belinda Winter’s employment law background.

Best for: employers needing a legally informed, independent investigation into a workplace conduct complaint.