Senior Asso­ciate 6 years + PQE  Employment

We are look­ing for a tal­ent­ed and moti­vat­ed Senior Asso­ciate with min­i­mum 6 years plus PQE to work close­ly with a Part­ner in a broad range of employ­ment relat­ed mat­ters, act­ing for employ­ers and senior employ­ees. This role will see you assist­ing and act­ing for clients in employ­ment, work­place rela­tions and WHS law and will include: 

• Rep­re­sent­ing clients in courts and tri­bunals (includ­ing the Fair Work Com­mis­sion) in employ­ment law mat­ters such as unfair dis­missal, gen­er­al pro­tec­tions, bul­ly­ing, indus­tri­al dis­putes, enter­prise agree­ment approval and discrimination
• Draft­ing advice for clients on a range of employ­ment, indus­tri­al rela­tions, dis­crim­i­na­tion and WHS matters
• Draft­ing employ­ment con­tracts and work­place policies
• Prepar­ing and deliv­er­ing work­place training
• Assist­ing clients with WHS issues and defend WHS prosecutions
• Research var­i­ous aspects of employ­ment and WHS law
• Draft­ing arti­cles and pre­sent­ing at con­fer­ences on employ­ment law issues

Work­ing close­ly with a part­ner who is recog­nised in the media and across the legal indus­try ​‚the suc­cess­ful can­di­date will have a rare oppor­tu­ni­ty to build and ele­vate their own pro­fes­sion­al brand with­in a sup­port­ive, high­ly respect­ed and well‑connected employ­ment law practice. 

You will be encour­aged to pro­duce arti­cles, give pre­sen­ta­tions, pro­vide client train­ing, and engage in broad­er busi­ness devel­op­ment ini­tia­tives, allow­ing you to estab­lish a strong per­son­al mar­ket pres­ence while being sup­port­ed by the firm’s estab­lished networks. 

Skills & Experience

To be con­sid­ered for this posi­tion, you will have a back­ground in employ­ment and WHS law, a demon­strat­ed work­ing knowl­edge of indus­tri­al rela­tions, WHS and employ­ment relat­ed leg­is­la­tion, an under­stand­ing of indus­tri­al awards and their appli­ca­tion in the work­place and expe­ri­ence in rep­re­sen­ta­tion of mem­bers before the Fair Work Com­mis­sion and oth­er Courts and Tribunals.

You will be a team play­er who takes on tasks with pride and enthu­si­asm, has excel­lent draft­ing skills and atten­tion to detail, is a good com­mu­ni­ca­tor and demon­strates a will­ing­ness to learn and take on respon­si­bil­i­ty. You will also have a pas­sion for build­ing strong client rela­tion­ships with expo­sure to busi­ness devel­op­ment and a desire to build your own pro­file, prac­tice and advance your career.

Cul­ture

Work­place cul­ture is every­thing to us, because when our peo­ple are hap­py, we know they will look after our clients and them­selves. Swaab is a place where peo­ple feel they can inno­vate, col­lab­o­rate and devel­op their careers and are reward­ed for their efforts. Your well­be­ing and that of all our team is a high pri­or­i­ty and we work hard to con­tin­u­al­ly work on our culture.

Ben­e­fits

In addi­tion to a com­pet­i­tive salary pack­age, you will also ben­e­fit from the following:

• Salary con­tin­u­ance insurance
• Career pro­gres­sion
• Gym/​wellness contribution
• Excel­lent work­place envi­ron­ment and culture
• Flex­i­bil­i­ty
• Reg­u­lar team build­ing and social events
• Sup­port­ive team and firm
• Pur­chased leave
• Flu shots
• EAP
• Annu­al legal allowance
• Yoga
• Var­i­ous oth­er well-being initiatives

About Swaab

We are a mul­ti-award win­ning com­mer­cial law firm with an entrenched com­mit­ment to our clients and our col­leagues which we live through our own Swaab Brand of Service.

We proud­ly serve the mid­dle mar­ket, list­ed cor­po­ra­tions, fam­i­ly busi­ness­es, wealthy indi­vid­u­als, entre­pre­neurs and start-ups that want a respon­sive and nim­ble team of experts who cel­e­brate their con­tri­bu­tion to the broad­er Aus­tralian economy.

Our key areas of prac­tice are prop­er­ty, cor­po­rate, com­mer­cial, intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty and tech­nol­o­gy, employ­ment law, lit­i­ga­tion, insol­ven­cy, trans­port and fran­chis­ing. We work across a num­ber of indus­tries includ­ing prop­er­ty, retail and fash­ion, health, pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices, trans­port and media. In addi­tion to our com­mer­cial prac­tice we also have a high­ly rep­utable fam­i­ly law team.

We are a mem­ber of Mer­i­tas, a glob­al alliance of inde­pen­dent, full-ser­vice law firms and is its only Syd­ney based mem­ber. This allows us to keep in touch glob­al­ly, pro­vide extend­ed ser­vices to our clients and gives us the expo­sure and oppor­tu­ni­ty to work with inter­na­tion­al businesses.

How to Apply

If this sounds like an oppor­tu­ni­ty that you want to explore fur­ther, please apply now, direct­ing your appli­ca­tion to Angela Sharpe, Head of Peo­ple and Cul­ture at ags@​swaab.​com.​au. All appli­ca­tions will be treat­ed in strict confidence.