INSTANT BEST VALUE TELEPHONE DIAGNOSIS* available for employers and employees about urgent employment and workplace legal issues including dismissals and termination of employment by one of WA’s leading experts. Very affordable fixed fees and value for money representation in Australia. Outstanding win rate.
Fair Work Legal Advice® is one of the busiest and most successful employment law businesses in Australia. It is owned and managed by Stephen Edwards LLB who is a specialist workplace negotiator and industrial agent who provides professional advice to and representation** for both employers and employees about termination of employment, fair work and workplace issues such as unfair and unlawful dismissal, workplace investigations and enterprise bargaining. He has been doing so for many years, formerly as an employment lawyer, which he concluded in 2013 for lifestyle reasons after a very successful legal career, and now as a registered industrial agent. He is frequently retained by law firms to represent their clients in such cases.
Stephen offers weekend telephone consultations upon request and by arrangement.
“I guarantee my advice. No ifs, no buts. Guaranteed, best value plus the option of fixed fees.“
Please read the brief summary of my professional career
After 45 years formerly as a senior employment and media lawyer, I am now a registered industrial agent** offering fast and specialist employment advice and representation for a fraction of lawyers’ fees and with a minimum of fuss and formality. My rates for providing fair work advice and representation* are widely rated as the best value in Western Australia. You can begin a free preliminary assessment at this link.
I also work on Sundays when it is often convenient for people, especially busy small business employers and sole traders, to talk to me about confidential workplace issues. My general method of working is by telephone consultation which allows me to keep my rates well below those of my colleagues such as legal practitioners and it is also favoured by almost all of my clients for value and convenience.
* Upon payment of standard telephone consultation fee https://fairworklegaladvice.com.au/fees/
** Industrial Relations (Industrial Agents) Regulations 1997 (WA) and sec 112A Industrial Relations Act 1979 (WA)
*** I do not provide advice or representation about or for workers compensation
****Pro bono; I allocate a proportion of my professional time to pro bono advice and representation. The budget for that for calendar 2023 has already been exhausted.
I have a highly regarded and envied success rate representing employers and employees both in prosecuting and defending 
A lack of equal opportunity in today’s Australian workplaces rankles with many employees, yet it can also be a complex operational challenge for employers. 
I have specialised in this area of the law for more than 40 years and am available to answer any of your questions promptly and in a clear and comprehensible manner. I offer telephone and Skype consultations which are affordable, convenient and provide fast outcomes. I am very conscious of the capacity of such issues to cause serious stress both for employers and employees and fully understand the urgency of identifying a workable solution.
With more than 40 years of unblemished legal practice at the highest of levels in Western Australia, and the other States too, I offer a range of employment services and advice and representation for both employees and employers. These days I do so as an industrial agent and at rates and fees which are a fraction of those of my legal colleagues. You can read how and why I can do this in the About tab above, where there are several paragraphs about my career and which explain in a nutshell who I am, what I do and why I do it.
