WORKPLACE LAWYERS & IR SPECIALISTS, MELBOURNE
Healthcare And Aged Care Lawyers With Heart
We’re here to help you respond to industry trends, legal compliance and meet your operational and people challenges so that you can continue to deliver vital services across the health and aged care sector.
We work with a variety of clients across the health sector including public hospitals, private operators, and non-emergency patient transport. We also act as strategic advisers to clients across the nation on aged care and health. Our team of lawyers can help provide you with the right kind of support and advice so that your organisation can function effectively and efficiently while meeting current regulatory standards.
What We Can Do For You
- Regulatory and compliance advice
- Employment and occupational health and safety
- Investigations
- Workplace training
- Governance
- Drafting employment contracts
- Drafting workplace policies
- EBA negotiation and advice
- Workplace relations support
Our Recent Work For Health & Aged Care
- EBA Negotiation: negotiated new enterprise agreements and provided end-to-end support (including liaising with the relevant trade unions).
- On-going Support: provided ‘on demand’ industrial relations support and advice for numerous health sector clients.
- Policy and Procedures: prepared workplace policies and helped implemented procedures to manage performance and absenteeism issues.
- Workplace Investigations: conducting comprehensive workplace investigations into serious allegations made against employees.
- Dispute Mediation: conducted meditations to resolve employee disputes and complaints.
- Advice on Legislation: assisted the largest single provider of community based palliative care services in Victoria respond to the challenges presented (to a Christian-faith palliative organisation) by the introduction of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic). This included creating new procedures and staff training programs, ensuring staff awareness of the new legislative obligations, and responding to resultant issues.
- Specialist Investigation: conducted a specialist investigation for an independent, not-for-profit residential home in Melbourne providing exceptional aged care for over 50 years, concerning serious allegations raised. This included assisting the senior leaders of the organisation ‘get to the bottom’ of the complaint made, make findings and recommendations, and resolve a difficult, sensitive issue for the organisation.
Contact Us
If you’re struggling to meet your care objectives because of workplace issues, we can help you solve them.
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