Lawyer: Employment & Safety (2+ years' PQE)
Core
Provide strategic legal advice on employment, industrial relations, and workplace safety matters for clients in energy, infrastructure, construction, and corporate sectors.
Role type
Mid-level employment and safety lawyer
Builds
Legal advice, submissions, and representations for employers and employees
Domain
Legal services (Employment Law, Industrial Relations, Workplace Safety)
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Employment law expertise, industrial relations knowledge, workplace safety (WHS) experience, legal drafting, oral advocacy, evidence gathering, regulatory investigation handling
Preferred skills
Experience with Fair Work Commission appearances, handling discrimination claims, managing psychosocial risk matters, coronial inquest participation
Technologies
Legal research databases, case management systems
Responsibilities
Appear at the Fair Work Commission, draft submissions for discrimination claims, advise on employee suspension and ill-health management, handle workplace conduct complaints, gather evidence for underpayment disputes, manage serious workplace incidents and regulator investigations, participate in WHS prosecutions and coronial inquests
Seniority
Junior to Mid-level, hands-on IC