Ensure your termination procedures are in order
This newsletter looks at a recent decision of Fair Work Australia which highlights the need for procedural fairness to be given to employees whose employment is being terminated for poor performance or misconduct...

Workplace Relations
Carter Newell is a leading dynamic Queensland-based firm providing specialist legal advice to Australian and international corporate clients.
Led by Senior Associate Clayton Payne, the Workplace Relations team has significant experience in advising employers on all aspects of managing a workforce, focussing on the areas of workplace relations, human resource management, workplace investigations, and employment law.
Our range of services include advising on:
- Unlawful discrimination, and workplace and sexual harassment (including the defence of claims, policy development and implementation, and training)
- Unfair dismissal claims
- Employment termination and redundancy
- Workplace health and safety (including policy development, advice on prosecutions and the associated investigation process, and appearing in prosecutions)
- Employment and independent contractor agreements
- Enterprise agreements
- The application of industrial instruments
- Workplace disputes and prosecutions (including the provision of advice and advocacy)
- Restraint of trade issues
- Workplace investigations
- Privacy
- Transfer of business issues
We help our clients to resolve a range of workplace issues, from isolated incidents, through to long term arrangements such as strategic restructuring and planning, and process development and training.
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