Workplace Advisory

The key to managing employment and industrial relations is ensuring appropriate and effective workplace arrangements are in place.  The recent trend in human resources management has been to over-complicate the employment process without value-adding or certainty.  Fair Work Lawyers will streamline your processes, with a succinct, plain English approach. Fair Work Lawyers offer a full suite of human resources advisory tools, including providing a comprehensive advisory service regarding:

  • Contracts of employment, independent contracts and subcontract agreements
  • Negotiating and ratifying enterprise agreements
  • Workplace policies, procedures and protocols
  • Employee discipline and termination
  • Workplace investigations
  • Workplace restructuring
  • Transfer of business
  • Code compliance

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    Tom Earls

    Having honed his craft across private practice, government and industry associations, Tom Earls founded Fair Work Lawyers in 2014 as a firm to represent businesses – especially SMEs – and their interests. Tom has been involved in industrial relations for over two decades – starting well prior to the tumultuous WorkChoices-era – and has been at the forefront of the various iterations of workplace law since …

    Dave Putland

    David Putland is a founding partner of Fair Work Lawyers, and has nearly two decades of experience in the legal industry as a well-regarded advocate and litigator. Mr Putland provides exceptional advice to businesses, assisting to navigate a range of business critical functions. This includes employment matters, workers compensation, contractual issues and regulatory compliance …

    Tom Spedding

    Thomas (or Tom) is the newest team member at Fair Work Lawyer, joining the firm as a solicitor in February 2022. A graduate of the University of Adelaide (Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts (Politics and International Relations)), …

    Sara Pekmez

    Sara Pekmez joined the Fair Work Lawyers team in 2019. Sara is an integral part of Fair Work Lawyers’ team, providing advice and representation across a wide range of matters in both the employment and building and construction sphere …

    Emma Avey

    Emma joined Fair Work Lawyers in early stages of the Covid chaos of 2020, and quickly proved herself to be a reliable, dependable and hard-working solicitor with a passion for industrial relations and employment matters …