Preparation, mandate and claims
Confirm governance, decision authority, operational evidence and the negotiating mandate; analyse employer and employee claims, cost and workforce impacts, dependencies and settlement parameters.
Advisory & Compliance
Employer workplace advisory and compliance services
AWS provides employer workplace advisory and compliance support across the employment lifecycle: award interpretation and wage compliance, enterprise bargaining, employment contracts, terms and conditions, rostering practice, organisational restructures and job redesign, performance and conduct matters, dispute resolution, and alignment of operational procedures and systems with legislative requirements. Advice is practical and decision-focused, and is provided as workplace relations advisory support rather than legal advice.
Our approach
Obligations mapping
Mapping legislative and regulatory obligations across jurisdictions and operating entities.
Policy architecture
Designing coherent policy, procedure and delegation frameworks with clear ownership.
Decision support
Practical advisory support for sensitive personnel, complaint and conduct decisions.
Assurance reviews
Independent reviews of compliance posture, controls and reporting lines.
Wage compliance
Award interpretation, classification, pay and entitlement reviews, remediation planning and support where an enforceable undertaking or regulator engagement is on foot.
Enterprise agreement support
Preparation, bargaining governance, approval-process support and practical implementation of enterprise agreement obligations.
Contracts, terms & rostering
Employment contract review, terms and conditions, and best-practice rostering that reflects award, agreement and operational requirements.
Restructure & job redesign
Structural change, job redesign and redundancy processes, including consultation obligations, redeployment assessment and documentation.
Case management
Support through unfair dismissal, general protections, redundancy, psychological injury, workplace rehabilitation and performance-management matters.
Dispute resolution
Internal dispute procedures and alternative dispute resolution, including preparation for conciliation and facilitated resolution.
HR projects
Business cases and HR projects across the employment lifecycle, from policy and capability work to systems and procedure alignment.
Outcomes
- Well-documented, compliance-focused posture suitable for board and regulator scrutiny.
- Clear ownership of obligations across HR, safety, legal and operations.
- Reduced exposure to claims, investigations and regulator action.
Bargaining and implementation
Enterprise agreement bargaining and implementation support
AWS supports employers preparing, negotiating and implementing an enterprise agreement. The scope is set around the workforce, current instruments, operational priorities, bargaining status and applicable Australian jurisdiction. “EBA” is sometimes used as a familiar shorthand, but the statutory instrument is an enterprise agreement.
Consultation and meeting governance
Plan consultation and communications, meeting roles, issue and action registers, proposal records, approvals and escalation so the bargaining team works to a clear and current mandate.
Agreement approval process support
Coordinate the process plan, employee explanation and access-period materials, voting readiness, records and application inputs, with legal review or representation obtained separately where required.
Operational interpretation
Map agreement terms to the decisions and controls used by payroll, rostering, HR and operations, identifying ambiguous interfaces, ownership gaps and matters requiring specialist legal interpretation.
Implementation and capability
Translate approved terms into payroll rules, rosters, policies, procedures, manager guidance, communications and targeted training, with named owners and implementation dates.
Post-approval checks
Where commissioned, sample implementation evidence and exceptions after commencement, record corrective actions and verify closure. This is proportionate implementation checking, not compliance certification.
AWS provides workplace relations consultancy and process support, not legal advice or compliance certification. Any representation before the Fair Work Commission is only where legally permissible and specifically engaged; AWS does not promise approval or any bargaining outcome. Read the employer roadmap for enterprise bargaining or explore manager training for workplace decisions.
Discuss enterprise agreement supportRetained and on-call workplace advisory support
AWS can support employers through project-based engagements or retained advisory arrangements, including on-call support for workplace compliance, policies, performance, restructures, wage compliance and employment-risk issues. For a self-review of a proposed redundancy before implementation, use the redundancy and redeployment risk check.
Related resources
- How to conduct a wage compliance review →
Scoping, sampling and documentation for a wage compliance review.
- How to determine award coverage and classification →
Working through coverage, classification levels and common interpretation errors.
- Redundancy, restructure and job redesign: documentation and consultation →
Consultation and record-keeping across a proposed structural change.
- Board and executive advisory →
Independent decision support on people risk, workplace obligations, governance and assurance.
- Preparing for enterprise bargaining: an employer's roadmap →
The pathway from notification time and bargaining governance through voting, approval and implementation.
- Workplace compliance reviews for employers →
A scoped review across payroll, contracts, policies, psychosocial controls, WHS systems and governance.