How do Members engage with Squire Patton Boggs?
APSCo Australia will triage all enquiries for Squire Patton Boggs.
Members will provide a brief description of their enquiry, their contact details and details of any other parties that may be involved (for conflict checking purposes).
Members will then receive either a direct phone call or a detailed email response, dependent on the complexity and nature of the enquiry.
Please note that any work/advice that is not able to be provided in the call/email, can be provided by Squire Patton Boggs on a fee paying basis with an offer for APSCo Members of a 5% discount on standard rates.
What sort of enquiries can Squire Patton Boggs assist Members with?
Day to day HR advisory issues such as:
- Performance management
- Absence management
- Disciplinary issues (including termination of employment)
- Bullying, harassment or discrimination complaints
- Compliance with the Fair Work Act (including accessorial liability)
- Underpayment of wages
- Redundancies
- Responding to an unfair dismissal or adverse action claim
- Casual employees, including casual conversion
- Record-keeping
- HR policies – issues involved in introducing, amending or withdrawing policies/ what policies are “must-haves” versus “nice to haves”
Award/enterprise agreements:
- Award coverage
- Classification queries
- Interpretation of awards/enterprise agreements
- On-hire provisions in awards/enterprise agreements
- Pay rates in awards/enterprise agreements
Contracts of employment/contractor agreements:
- What type of employment or contractor arrangement best suits a Member's needs (i.e. permanent employment, casual employment, on-hire agreement, contractor arrangements etc)
- Best practice provisions to include in contracts and agreements
- Interpretation of clauses/provisions in contracts/agreements, including post-termination restraints and bonus and commissions provisions
- Issues and risks of independent contractor agreements and arrangements
Other:
- Transfer of business (including acquisitions, disposals and outsourcing arrangements)
- Post-termination restraints
- How to interpret them in contracts
- Enforceability and effectiveness of restraints both in respect of your employees or contractors leaving your organisation and for prospective employees and contractors.
You will be required to identify your company membership upon request.