Employment Law

Vertex offers pre-eminent practice for its employment and industrial relations partners.

The firm advises on a range of complex issues and is particularly strong in the litigation field.

Vertex generally acts for corporate employers in matters such as collective bargaining and industrial action.  

Vertex partners are well versed in labour law and authored a principle textbook on Labour Law and Employment which is a source book.

Vertex is committed to upholding standards of ethics, excellence and justice for clients to ensure appropriate reward and or measure is provided in labour disputes.

Some of the services offered by Vertex include:

• Employment Policies, Agreement and contracts; Handling employment disputes, claims of unfair dismissal, all forms of harassment, discrimination and breach of contract;
• Workforce management and operations such as performance, misconduct, long term absences; Remuneration and reward, disclosure obligations and termination payments;
• Workforce restructuring, consultations, redeployment and redundancies;
• Industrial relation strategy development; Transfer of employees, outsourcing, in sourcing, workforce integration;
• Workplace investigations and Work health and safety compliance, due diligence obligations, training, workplace incident response.