Australian Workplace Strategies

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.

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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.

Bargaining & agreements

Preparation for enterprise bargaining, including mandate, claims analysis, meeting governance, record-keeping and approval requirements.

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.

Retained 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.

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