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Robert King

Practice Leader

Employment, Workplace Relations & Safety 

Expertise

Employment Law

  • Advice on obligations under the Fair Work Act 2009, including compliance with awards and enterprise agreements
  • Managing ill and injured employees
  • Employment and contractor agreements, including remuneration, restraint of trade and confidential information matters
  • Engagement and termination of employees and contractors 
  • Unfair dismissal and general protections matters
  • Advice on anti-discrimination laws, bullying, harassment and sexual harassment

Work Safety

  • Advice and training on safety and employment compliance 
  • Conducting complex workplace conduct investigations, including mediation and conflict resolution
  • Performance management and disciplinary procedures 
  • Respect@Work compliance and positive duty obligations

Experience 

  • Advising and representing clients in employment and industrial relations matters across a broad range of industries, with particular expertise in the education, health, aged care, disability and social services sectors and religious institutions
  • Advising and representing clients in the Fair Work Commission, Queensland Industrial Relations Commission and the Federal Court on employment and industrial dispute matters
  • Advising and representing clients in the Australian Human Rights Commission and Queensland Human Rights Commission on discrimination and harassment matters
  • Advising clients on work health and safety compliance and managing workplace injury incidents and managing interactions with WorkSafe Queensland
  • Designing and delivering workplace training programs on employment and work health and safety compliance
  • Advising and representing clients in industrial relations matters and disputation, including recently representing a client in a supported bargaining application before the Fair Work Commission.

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