Fair Work Legal Advice® 0427329514
BEST VALUE AUSTRALIA WIDE TELEPHONE CONSULTS* available 7 DAYS A WEEK for employers and employees about urgent employment and workplace legal issues including unfair dismissal , unlawful dismissal and general protections issues in employment by a leading industrial agent and fair work specialist. Very affordable fixed fees and value for money advice and representation. 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.
What is unfair dismissal?
An unfair dismissal is the termination of the employment of an employee in circumstances which the law regards on an objective basis as harsh or unjust or unreasonable, or which has all, or some, or just one, of those characteristics. Under the national fair work system the legal test is firstly whether there was a valid reason for the dismissal AND secondly whether it was harsh, unjust or unreasonable.
Most Australian employees are protected from unfair dismissal by the national fair work system but some employees are covered by State unfair dismissal laws.
Remedies for unfair dismissal include compensation and reinstatement of employment or both.
My unfair dismissal and unlawful dismissal clients are small and large employers and employees who live and work throughout Australia.
Almost all Australian employers and employees in the private sector operate under the national fair work system of workplace relations. This includes the federal public sector, but most State public sector employers and employees have their industrial relations regulated by State bodies. Only Western Australia has retained a State industrial relations system which is involved in the private sector, and then only over sole traders, unincorporated bodies and incorporated bodies which are not national system employers.
Accordingly, I offer a one stop shop of advice and representation with any of the following employment issues.
For employees
Unfair and unlawful dismissal, unfair termination, unlawful termination, wrongful dismissal, adverse action, termination of employment, denied contractual benefits, equal opportunity and discrimination at work, redundancy, retrenchment, advice about workplace rights, disciplinary action, whistleblower protections in the workplace and all other workplace issues.
My fees are negotiable and include hourly rates’ options. I also offer the security of fixed fees, for which many of my clients opt for certainty and comforted knowing what they need to budget for. Litigation is notorious for uncertainty of duration and cost.
For employers
Dismissals, termination of employment, redundancies, retrenchments, severance and payroll issues, enterprise bargaining, negotiations, drafting enterprise agreements and workplace contracts, defending claims in the industrial tribunals, union rights of entry problems, advice about equal opportunity and discrimination and a range of other issues arising in Australian workplaces.