Workplace Law
Clifford Gouldson has built its reputation on being the leading employer and industrial relations firm in the region. We are the only firm west of Brisbane to boast a team of full-time workplace lawyers and a practice that advises some of the largest employers on the Darling Downs.
The Clifford Gouldson workplace relations team provides a genuine alternative to briefing high-priced Brisbane or Sydney based workplace specialists while maintaining a commitment to commercially astute and practical advice, personal service and courteous behaviour that local public and private sector clients expect.
The Clifford Gouldson team provides specialist workplace advice with local knowledge, local lawyers and a commitment to the local community.
Our team of lawyers offer clients within Toowoomba and further afield the following workplace law services:-
Employee Recruitment Management & Planning
- Advice on job descriptions / position statements
- Advice on advertisements
- Advice on interview/screening processes
Strategic Workplace Relations Advice
- Fair Work coverage advice
- Industrial instrument drafting and lodging, including Enterprise Agreements or Enterprise Awards
- Policy drafting advice on implementation
- Drafting and settling common law contracts of employment (including contracts for employed directors and senior management staff), individual flexibility arrangements and facilitative arrangements
- Modern Award advice and management
Employee Management Advice
- Managing the dismissal of an employee process
- Conducting and managing misconduct and underperformance investigations
- Managing employee misconduct and underperformance
- Managing ill or injured employees
- Managing a redundancy of more or less than 15 employees
- Managing post employment issues such as restraint of trades and confidentiality
Industrial Law Litigation
- Defence of wage claims
- Defence of unfair and unlawful dismissal claims
- Defence of discrimination and sexual harassment complaints
- Defence of workplace health and safety prosecutions
- Enforcement / Defence of award and contract breaches
- Managing industrial disputes
- Appealing WorkCover and Q-Comp decisions
Training
- Policy implementation
- Anti-discrimination
- Bullying & harassment
- Workplace health & safety
Workplace Health & Safety
- Policy drafting and advice
- Reviewing workplace practices
- Incident and injury management (including fatal accidents)