Employment Law

Whether you have five employees or 500, Brown Wright Stein can help you better understand and manage your responsibilities as an employer, from a legal perspective.

Brown Wright Stein regularly advises and represents employers in relation to industrial relations and employment matters. We have advised hundreds of clients on matters such as code of conduct investigations, performance issues, absenteeism, discrimination claims, redundancy and other termination of employment issues, review of action investigations, complex medical retirement issues and negotiating Certified Agreements and Australian Workplace Agreements.

Brown Wright Stein represents clients before the Australian and NSW Industrial Relations Commissions, Anti-Discrimination Tribunal, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC), Federal Court, Federal Magistrates Court and State courts.

Partner Peter Wright has acted for commercial clients in a variety of both contentious and non-contentious employment matters for more than 20 years.

Our experience

Examples or our recent experience are outlined below.

  • Acting for the Administrator of National Textiles Limited - in the course of that administration negotiations took place with ASIC and the Commonwealth which led directly to what is now known as the General Employee Entitlements & Redundancy Scheme.
  • Regularly acting for employers in the Federal and State Industrial Relations Commissions, HREOC and the Anti-Discrimination Tribunal in relation to unfair and unlawful dismissal claims, anti-discrimination and harassment claims.
  • Providing advice to private company shareholders in relation to the remedies available to them under the Corporations Act 2001 for matters including oppressive conduct, breach of directors duties and demands for auditors accounts.
  • Acting in several cases for both employers and employees in relation to restraint of trade, where restraints have been attempted to be enforced or have been challenged
  • Acting for employers in WorkCover prosecutions in relation to accidents involving death and severe injuries.
  • Advising numerous clients on Australian Workplace Agreements (AWA) and employment contracts.