The Employment Agreement is the foundation of the relationship between employee and employer. While a generic template provides a starting point, our team of employment specialists can curate Employment Agreement for your permanent, part-time fixed-term and casual employees that reflects and protects your business. We also provide advice to employees, ensuring you understand your rights and responsibilities under an Employment Agreement, and give you the tools to negotiate the terms.

An increasing number of businesses are looking to include their employees in the business through an Employee Share Scheme. Our employment and commercial specialists can advise both employers and employees looking to enter into such schemes.

We expertly navigate employers through fair and reasonable process when they experience issues from their employees, such as misconduct (including serious misconduct) and performance issues. When the process is right, we can reduce the risk of further disciplinary and performance issues, or employment relationship problems and personal grievances.

For both employers and employees, personal grievances can be stressful, time consuming and costly. Whether you are raising or receiving a personal grievance, we can provide clear and comprehensive advice about the personal grievance and your options to resolve it. Where further steps are needed to resolve the personal grievance, we have the experience to represent you at mediation, the Employment Relations Authority, and Employment Court.

The Employment Law landscape is continually changing, making it challenging for both employees and employers to understand their rights and responsibilities. By keeping up with these changes, our employment specialists ensure that your workplace complies with the raft of legislation and case law changes relevant to your employment relationships.

The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) is a complex piece of legislation. WorkSafe has brought many prosecutions against businesses, which create implications for employers and businesses. We provide advice to employers to understand their obligations to employees and other persons at their place of work, prepare comprehensive health and safety policies specific to your place of work, and keep you updated on changes to ensure your business remains compliant with the HSWA.