At Madgwicks we support employers through two key approaches:

• Upstream (preventative): Helping you stay ahead by reviewing compliance, advising on obligations, and drafting practical, risk-mitigating policies that protect both your business and your people.
• Downstream (reactive): Providing strong representation when issues arise, including managing investigations, mediating disputes, and acting for employers in inquests, court proceedings and prosecutions.

Our Services

Industrial Relations

• Enterprise bargaining
• Industrial disputes
• Industrial workplace strategies
• Workplace rights and adverse action litigation
• Union right of entry
• Picketing

Employment Law

• Advice about, and drafting of employment agreements including for executive employees
• Confidential information and intellectual property
• Termination of employment – advice and defence of claims (including adverse action and unfair dismissal)
• Misleading and deceptive conduct
• Workplace policies

Fair Work Commission

• Representation and advisory on mediations, hearings and disputes

Independent Contractors

• Structuring arrangements
• Drafting of contractor agreements
• Advice regarding liabilities

Workers Compensation

• Advising on impact to premiums and claims processes
• Disputing claim acceptance

Restraint of Trade

• Restraint of trade advice
• Enforcement of restraints

Anti-discrimination and equal opportunity

• Unlawful discrimination, bullying and harassment disputes
• Flexible work practices and workplace diversity policy development

Workplace Training

• Appropriate workplace behaviours
• Training to ensure effective internal processes and approaches, including as to dismissal processes and internal workplace investigations
• Conducting Health and Safety training from employee level to board level
• Training to ensure general workplace legal compliance
• Updates on new developments in the law

Occupational Health and Safety

• Risk management
• Drug and alcohol testing, and associated issues
• Defending OH&S prosecutions

Business transfer and mergers

• Strategic workplace change and restructuring management
• Redundancy management and advisory
• Business restructuring (including taxation), outsourcing and insourcing
• Culture and change management and policy implementation
• Employer obligations upon transfer of business
• Employee entitlements upon transfer of business
• Advising on transferable instruments

Workplace investigations

• Internal investigations
• Privileged investigations
• Investigations by statutory authorities
• Employee fraud/whit