Your partner across the full employment lifecycle
Moray & Agnew’s Workplace team provides strategic, practical advice to employers navigating the full employment lifecycle.
We support public and private sector clients across Australia on employment law, industrial relations, discrimination, workplace investigations and work health & safety.
Our lawyers understand the operational, regulatory and reputational pressures facing employers and deliver clear, commercially focused solutions that manage risk, resolve disputes early and support productive, compliant workplaces.
Why choose us
Moray & Clients value our ability to combine deep workplace expertise with pragmatic, real‑world advice – delivered by a nationally integrated team that understands the commercial, regulatory and people challenges employers face every day.
Employment & industrial relations expertise
Moray & Agnew has extensive experience advising employers and insurers on all aspects of employment and industrial relations law. Our team provides practical, commercially focused advice across the employment lifecycle, helping clients manage risk, maintain compliance and resolve disputes efficiently.
We regularly assist with:
- Employment contracts, policies and workplace frameworks
- Enterprise agreements, awards and industrial instruments
- Managing performance, misconduct and disciplinary processes
- Industrial disputes, union engagement and right of entry issues
- Employment‑related claims, regulatory investigations and litigation
- Strategic advice on workplace change, restructures and compliance obligations
Our approach is grounded in a deep understanding of Australian employment and industrial relations legislation, coupled with a strong focus on timely, practical and cost-effective advice and legal services for routine matters through to extremely complex situations.
Our proficiency and experience is supported by our experience in managing the sensitive matters that often arise in this area. We also aim to be at the forefront of developments and provide clients with value-added services such as workplace training.
Discrimination, bullying & workplace investigation expertise
We advise employers on preventing, managing and responding to discrimination, bullying, harassment and other inappropriate workplace conduct. Our team is experienced in handling sensitive and complex matters with discretion, fairness and procedural integrity.
We support clients through every stage of the process, from early risk assessment and complaint handling through to resolution and defence of claims, with a focus on minimising disruption and protecting organisational reputation.
Our expertise includes:
- Advice on obligations under discrimination and human rights legislation
- Managing complaints involving bullying, harassment and victimisation
- Conducting and advising on internal and external workplace investigations
- Responding to regulatory inquiries and tribunal proceedings
- Developing policies, training frameworks and risk mitigation strategies
We also represent clients in matters before the Australian Human Rights Commission and state tribunals, with a strong focus on protecting reputations and minimising disruption.
Termination of employment expertise
Termination of employment, if not handled properly, can be a difficult and costly process for employers. Our dedicated lawyers understand this and help employers minimise both the direct financial costs as well as indirect costs arising from destabilisation of the workforce.
We regularly advise on:
- Managing termination processes, including redundancy and restructuring
- Unfair dismissal, general protections and adverse action claims
- Performance‑based and misconduct‑related terminations
- Negotiated exits, deeds of release and settlement strategies
- Defence of employment‑related claims before courts and tribunals
Our team works closely with clients to ensure terminations are handled lawfully, consistently and with minimal risk, while supporting timely and commercially sensible outcomes. Our strategic advice can also provide essential insights in respect of workforce planning.
Work health & safety expertise
Our workplace team advises employers, insurers and self‑insured organisations on work health and safety (WHS) obligations and risk management across a broad range of industries.
We regularly assist with matters such as responding to regulatory environment changes through to responding to workplace incidents. We guide businesses through stressful and difficult regulatory investigations following workplace incidents and have plenty of experience in successfully defending prosecutions.
We advise and represent clients across the full range of WHS matters, including:
- Workers Compensation, WorkCover and injury management
- Negotiating, developing, documenting and reviewing WHS strategies, policies, plans and procedures
- Enforcement and regulatory action, including investigations
- Defending Work Health and Safety prosecutions in courts and representation at Coronial Inquests following workplace deaths
- Regulatory and legal WHS compliance, audits and risk assessments
- Proactive risk management strategies, including WHS compliance and management systems, due diligence requirements and significant incident management and responses
- Incident review, including assistance with incident response.
We provide clear, practical advice to help clients meet their statutory obligations, respond effectively to incidents and manage WHS risk in a proactive and defensible way. Our legal advice and services in this area are complemented by the wide experience of our dedicated Workers Compensation lawyers and the entire workplace team.
Significant Workplace matters
Advising on complex workforce change, industrial disputes and enterprise bargaining across a large public sector workforce, including representation before industrial tribunals.
Advice on misconduct investigations, termination of senior executives and defence of unfair dismissal and adverse action proceedings.
Defence of high profile WHS prosecutions and management of industrial disputes involving union action across multiple jurisdictions.
Advice on complex discrimination and workplace complaint matters, including representation before state and federal tribunals.
Management of large employment practices liability portfolios, including discrimination, bullying, harassment and unfair dismissal claims.
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