Employee Management
At Optimum Legal, we can assist you as an employer with the legal aspects of managing your employees, from actions to take to manage underperforming staff to drafting employment documentation.
What is Employee Management?
In this context, employee management refers to managing the legal rights, entitlements, and obligations an employer has to their employee/s in the workplace, such as a safe working environment, correct modern award entitlements including wages and conditions, appropriate policies and procedures and that all terms and conditions are reflected in a legally binding employment agreement. Employee management also refers to providing professional training and development to staff, ethical and legal steps to take to manage underperforming staff and on-boarding/terminating employment (while minimising the risks of any possible claim).
As an employer, it can be challenging to juggle all the different aspects of employee management to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and employee entitlements. Moreover, employers can face significant legal penalties for not complying with their obligations and rights to their staff. This is where Optimum Legal can help your business. We work closely with employers, from large organisations to individuals, to provide employee management services to aid in ensuring legal compliance with relevant laws and modern awards your employees may be covered under.
Our team has decades of experience with Industrial Relations and can offer legal advice and guidance for all areas of employment law, employee management and HR advisory.
We offer the following employee management services:
Basic HR advisory services
Drafting employment documentation and contracts
Developing and implementing company policies
Managing underperforming staff
Audit and review of workplace processes/documents
Ensure compliance with modern awards, employee wage entitlements and employment law updates
Enterprise bargaining negotiations
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Other Areas Of Law
By engaging an experienced, external team to conduct a workplace misconduct investigation, for issues such as bullying, discrimination, or harassment, you can protect the integrity of your business and employees. These issues can often be highly personal, complicated and have serious consequences for the people involved and the reputation of your business. Optimum Legal can help address and resolve these issues by conducting a workplace investigation.
We work with employers and employees to defend claims resulting from workplace disputes, including claims of: unfair dismissal, general protections, discrimination, and sexual harassment. We also work with employers to help to minimise the risks of these claims and can act as an independent third party mediator to resolve workplace disputes before the need to make a claim arises. Our goal is to ensure fairness and equity to protect your business.