Associate Senior Associate Workplace Relations and Safety
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Posted on:
10 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Rare opportunity in a leading workplace relations and safety practice
This role can be located in either Perth or Brisbane.
We are not your usual team. We have high quality clients operate as a skilled and genuinely collegiate team and continue to grow. We have not had a resignation in the team in 10 years. Our work is broad interesting and well-distributed giving our people exposure to a strong mix of matters while maintaining a sustainable lifestyle. We dont overwork our people and we have several interesting specialty areas where we are engaged in highprofile work.
You will be:
- Working with government and quality corporate clients across a broad range of industries.
- Providing advice to senior teams on a range of interesting employment industrial relations health and safety and regulatory compliance matters.
- Conducting litigation in a range of matters such as unfair dismissal adverse action claims union related disputes workplace fatalities and safety related breaches. We have matters in all courts at the moment except the High. Maybe next year other teams are!
- Managing complex ER cases including enterprise bargaining investigations terminations performance grievances and investigations.
- Delivering training preparing employment contracts reviewing and advising on executive remuneration and bonus schemes reviewing policies and providing support to management staff.
- Involved in workplace health and safety law gap assessments provide advice on powers negotiate with regulators and work as part of a team to defend in prosecutions.
- Involved in our general business legal support work where it makes sense for our client to do so.
Our philosophy is to find good people give them quality work create a good work environment and pay them well so they stay. We will look at all candidates in the Associate to Senior Associate range of experience to find the right one.
To be successful you will ideally bring:
- Strong relevant legal experience in the Associate to Senior Associate range.
- Suitable front and backend experience across one or more of the skill areas noted above clearly some candidates wont have a some of the skills areas listed above but thats ok.
- A teamfocused approach and genuine interest in building a longterm career with the firm.
- A strong work ethic reliability and the professional capability to work directly with clients.
About Us
Piper Alderman is a premier commercial law firm with offices in Adelaide Brisbane Darwin Melbourne Perth and Sydney. We work with clients across Australia and internationally to achieve practical commercial outcomes innovate in service delivery and engage deeply across multiple industries.
We pride ourselves on being a collaborative law firm where high-achieving ambitious team members can succeed in achieving their career goals while performing challenging and rewarding tasks. At Piper Alderman we promote a culture of excellence collaboration and teamwork. We recognize and support individuals and invest in their continued professional development.
Our perks
We have a variety of employee benefits aimed at supporting our people including but not limited to:
- A variety of health and wellbeing initiatives including our Wellbeing Program.
- Learning and development opportunities to support career growth including generous study support options.
- An attractive Parental Leave policy offering up to 26 weeks paid leave.
- Automatic acceptance into the group Salary Continuance insurance plan
- Purchased annual leave options.
- A range of fun office and team events all year round so we make sure we are connecting socially as often as possible!
- A range of corporate discounts.
- Employee-led Diversity & Inclusion and Reconciliation Committees and the opportunity to participate in pro-bono work.
Apply today
Piper Alderman is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We aim to attract and retain the best people and provide an environment where those people can be their authentic selves. We value diversity of thought and experience and aim to ensure all our people are valued and respected. People from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Please submit an application by clicking the relevant link in this job note no applications will be accepted directly via email.
If you have questions or would like further information about this opportunity please contact
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Business Development
- Organizational Management
- GAAP
- Accounting
- Analysis Skills
- Meeting Facilitation
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Investment Banking
- Microsoft Excel
- Private equity
- Financial Modeling
- Writing Skills
