Gold Coast & Brisbane Lawyers

Employment Law

MBA Lawyers provides advice on all employment and workplace relations matters including:

• Advising on and drafting employment contracts and contractor and labour-hire agreements
• Advising on restraint of trade provisions
• Drafting workplace policies and procedures
• Restructuring, redundancy and termination processes
• Performance management and disciplinary processes
• Managing ill and injured employees
• Workplace bullying

Advocacy, Litigation And Dispute Resolution

MBA Lawyers’ highly experienced team possess strong and effective advocacy skills and provides representation in all employment related matters before the Fair Work Commission, the Federal Court, the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission, the Industrial Court of Queensland and the Human Rights Commission including:

• Adverse action/general protections
• Unfair dismissal
• Breach of employment contract
• Unpaid wages and breach of Modern Award provisions
• Anti-Bullying claims
• Sexual harassment and Anti-Discrimination claims
• Industrial Disputes

Industrial Relations

The team within MBA Lawyers has a strong and unique understanding of the Industrial Relations framework in Australia generally and in Queensland specifically.

Importantly, our distinct and extensive experience within the private sector as well as both the State and the Local Government sectors enables us to provide highly specialised advice on complex issues such as:

• Interpretation of Modern Award, Enterprise Agreements (federal jurisdiction) and Certified Agreements (state jurisdiction)
• Assisting with the enterprise bargaining processes and the certification of Enterprise Agreements/ Certified Agreements
• Drafting Enterprise Agreements and Certified Agreements
• Advising on Union rights of entry
• Advising on dealing with and managing Protected Industrial Action

Workers Compensation

The MBA Lawyers Employment and Workplace Relations team are able to assist throughout the various stages of a worker’s compensation claim. This includes:

• Representation at the initial stages of workers’ compensation claims with WorkCover Queensland or self-insurers
• Representation at any appeals to the Workers’ Compensation Regulator
• Representation at the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission in any workers’ compensation appeals.

Work Health and Safety

MBA Lawyers provide advice on the interpretation and application of the Work Health and Safety legislation and any applicable Codes of Practice issued by Workplace Health and Safety Queensland.