Employment Law

Trusted Legal Advice in Employment and Workplace Law on the Sunshine Coast

Argon Law offers a comprehensive suite of services to address employment law matters across the Sunshine Coast region, offering clear guidance and effective solutions. Whether you're an employer or an employee, we provide exceptional legal counsel, minimising legal risks and ensuring compliance with employment laws. 

Our approach is personalised to your specific needs, and our commitment is unwavering – we strive for the most favourable outcomes for our clients in employment law cases. We have a proven track record of successful cases, and we invite you to contact us to discuss how we can assist.

How Can Argon Law Help Employers?

We offer legal services to support your workplace including drafting and reviewing employment contracts, developing precedent agreements and workplace policies, and advising on redundancies, terminations, awards, IP protection, confidentiality and non-compete issues, flexible work arrangements, misconduct and employment disputes where required.

How Can Argon Law Help Employees?

We vigorously protect employee rights in cases of discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination. Our focus on mediation and negotiation aims to resolve disputes amicably, reducing the need for costly litigation, but we also provide strong representation in court when required.

Employment and Workplace Legal Support Across the Sunshine Coast Region

While based in Maroochydore, we service businesses and clients across the Sunshine Coast region, from Noosa to Caloundra, the Hinterland and surrounding areas. Our experienced team is committed to protecting your rights and interests in the workplace and focus on staying updated on the latest employment law changes to provide you with current and relevant legal advice.

You can easily schedule a consultation by contacting us via phone or email. Our team is ready to assist with your employment-related challenges. 

Employers

Employment relationships are complex.  In our experience as employment lawyers on the Sunshine Coast, many problems that arise during the employment relationship are often reduced by choosing the right staff, having a clear and balanced employment agreement and managing employees fairly.  However, this is not fail-safe.  That is why at Argon Law, we provide legal advice on employment issues and help employers in the development of precedent agreements and policies and by advising on awards, certified agreements, IP protection, confidentiality, redundancy, misconduct and vicarious liability.

Employees

Argon Law acts for employees.  We have experience in helping employees to negotiate and include fairer terms into their employment agreements.  We advise on restraints, indemnities, entitlements, discrimination, bullying, unfair dismissal and unlawful termination.  We are also available to act for employees when disputes escalate.

Employment Policies

Employment policies provide a framework which enable workplaces to be managed in a consistent and effective way.    This improves productivity, compliance and helps businesses to save money.

If you are an employer, we can help you in the development, review, training and application of employment policies including those related to leave entitlements, equality and diversity, bullying, health and safety, drug and alcohol, intellectual property, social media, confidentiality, conflicts of interest and the personal use of business facilities.

If you are an employee who has been exposed to disciplinary action for an alleged breach these policies, we can not only advise you on whether this provides a valid reason for such action, we can also act for you in any proceedings or negotiations.

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Employment Disputes

The average person is estimated to spend about 90,000 hours of their life at work!  Conflict and disputes are common in the employment relationship.  However, the way they are handled can often be the making or the breaking of that relationship.

Whether it be a dispute about employee entitlements, leave, workplace conditions, discrimination, bullying, general protections, the protection and misuse of information or defamation, at Argon Law we take a practical approach in the resolution of disputes.  That might involve:

  • Advising on workplace rights, exposure, and the dispute resolution processes available
  • Assisting in investigations and disciplinary hearings
  • Assisting in the preparation of material when more formal steps are taken
  • Representing clients during dispute resolution including mediation, conciliation and litigation
  • Drafting settlement documents

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Redundancy

Redundancies can be difficult for both employees and employers.

For employers, things become problematic not only because of financial and business pressure, but because the requirements needed to prove a redundancy is genuine are much easier in theory than they are practice.  This is especially so if:

  • the focus is in the employee rather than the position;
  • there are competing grounds for termination for any employee who might be affected; or
  • the employee believes there are issues that suggest the redundancy is not genuine.

For employees, in addition to the usual concerns connected with the uncertainty of being unemployed and receiving the correct entitlements upon exit, redundancies that are not genuine trigger the operation of the unfair dismissal provisions, and potentially the adverse action provisions if the general protections are breached before or during the redundancy process.

At Argon Law, we have experience in helping employers and employees navigate through all aspects of redundancy.

Termination

Terminations are an area of employment law where poor processes lead to poor outcomes.  An unfair termination will result in the Fair Work Commission finding a dismissal to be harsh, unjust or unreasonable.  However, this is something that can vary greatly between cases. There are also those cases that involve wrongful dismissal or breach of the general protections or unlawful termination.

Regardless of whether you are an employer or an employer, Argon Law can work with you by:

  • providing strategic legal advice on the best way to manage your risk during an employee termination;
  • drafting, negotiating and advising on settlement documents; and
  • representing you during any alternative and formal dispute procedures following a claim for compensation or reinstatement by an employee after termination of their employment.

Employment Contracts and Awards

At Argon Law, we frequently draft, negotiate, review and provide advice on employment contracts, modern awards and other industrial instruments.  Our services include:

  • Drafting employment contracts for employers and changes to employment contracts for employees
  • Advising employers and employees on the availability and enforcement of post-separation restraints
  • Recruitment advice related to the employer/independent contractor relationship, sham contracting provisions, vicarious liability, different types of employment, casual conversion, inherent requirements and reasonable adjustments
  • Risk management advice including advice on entitlements (e.g. annual leave; parental leave), wage claims, flexible work arrangements, reasonable management action, altering work conditions, exposure under the general protections and performance management.

Call 07 5443 9988 or make an enquiry about Employment Law