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Employment Law
EMPLOYMENT LAWYERS IN WOLLONGONG & SYDNEY
Employment Law Specialists
Whether your business is a start-up or an experienced industry stalwart, our experienced employment lawyers offer a complete range of legal services to meet your needs.
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With offices conveniently located throughout Wollongong, Sydney and across the Illawarra region, we are readily accessible to provide comprehensive legal services to individuals and businesses in need.
Tailored Legal Solutions
Kells does not require you and your business to fit our products and services. Instead, we take the time to understand your needs and deliver solutions and outcomes that enhance and grow your business.
Here To Help
We have experience in all aspects of employment, industrial and occupational health and safety matters and are well placed to provide pragmatic advice on matters arising under the Fair Work Australia regime and NSW occupational health and safety laws.
How Can Our Employment Lawyers Help?
Kells focuses on getting claims resolved with the least impact on our clients as possible. Keeping clients out of court and resolving disputes in the least adversarial and mutually advantageous way is our priority.
To achieve this, our employment lawyers have experience in a range of mediation skills as well as access to external mediation facilities and legal and non-legal specialists.
On those occasions where litigation through the courts is the most effective process for achieving resolution and compensation, Kells’ lawyers work with our clients to manage the conflict most effectively, at all times ensuring clients are kept up-to-date with progress and are fully informed.
Navigating the maze that is banking and finance law? Get the advice you need! Our team is here to answer your questions and chart a clear path forward. Send us a message and let’s get started.
Types of cases we handle
Employment law services we provide
Our employment lawyers in Wollongong and Sydney are able to provide an extensive range of services, including:
- Representation and advocacy before the Fair Work Commission and the Industrial Relations Commission of NSW
- Compliance of policy training and safety documents
- Compliance with industrial relations and awards
- Discrimination and harassment resolution
- Employment contracts and contract arrangements
- Employees’ entitlements, rights and conditions
- Enterprise agreements
- Issues relating to outsourcing
- Disputes with Independent Contractors
- Occupation Health and Safety Act compliance
- Occupation Health and Safety Act prosecutions
- Strategic workplace relations advice
- Termination of employment negotiations and documentation
- Unfair dismissal and unlawful termination claims
- Workplace accidents resolution.
Occupational Health and Safety Act prosecutions
Kells has acted for numerous companies in defending and advising on prosecutions under the Occupational Health and Safety Act. We have successfully defended matters before the Chief Industrial Magistrate and regularly appear in the District Court of NSW. We have also been successful in pleas to the District Court in mitigation and have achieved for one of our corporate clients the very rare result of avoiding the entry of a conviction.
Our approach is pragmatic and we take pride in providing advice to clients that can assist them in the early resolution of disputes and avoiding protracted and expensive issues.
Issues relating to termination of employment
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Paul Magagnino
Managing Partner
Peter Chodat
Partner
Amy Harper
Partner
Michael Hatfield
Partner
Mario Quintiliani
Partner
David Addinall
Partner
Jarrad Downs
Partner
Ashleigh Georgopoulos
Partner
Patrick Schmidt
Partner
Terri Anderson
Special Counsel
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