Senior Associate, Workplace Relations Expert

4 days ago

Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia Hickson Lawyers Full time

Hicksons is a leading commercial law firm that provides expert legal and commercial advice to clients across Australia and Asia. Our Workplace Relations, Employment & Safety team is seeking a Senior Associate to join our team.

The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of employment law, including drafting enterprise agreements, understanding the rights of employers to bring claims, unfair dismissal and discrimination. They will also have experience in defendant litigation and a good knowledge of awards and national employment standards.

We offer a supportive and inclusive work culture, excellent professional development opportunities, and a commitment to client satisfaction. Our team is dedicated to delivering high-quality legal services and working collaboratively to achieve favourable outcomes for our clients.

As a Senior Associate, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of workplace relations, employment law, and safety matters. You will be expected to navigate complex legal issues with confidence and expertise, and to participate in knowledge sharing and business development activities to enhance your skills.

We foster a diverse and inclusive environment, and we welcome your creative ideas to optimize the way we work. We offer a range of benefits and social opportunities to support growth, development and internal networking and collaboration within the firm.

Some of the benefits we offer include:

  • Potential unearthed – We pride ourselves on enabling you to achieve your career aspirations. Offering tailored 1:1 mentoring, access to our E-learning platform with role base training, internal and external workshops and complete transparency around our promotional pathways program.
  • The right resources – Our workplace is supported by smart technology, paper-light processes, collaborative teams and a healthy values-based culture that will see you perform at your best.
  • Flexi-work options –We understand life is not 1 size fits all. Explore options for hybrid work, part time hours, compressed working weeks, and more.
  • Performance based rewards and incentive bonuses – our incentive program is designed to reward our employees and support our high-performance culture.
  • Hicksons + Benefits – 16 weeks paid gender-neutral parental leave, education assistance, Employee Assistance Program, Birthday leave and #4U leave, plus access to everyday discounts through our corporate discount schemes, and novated leasing.
  • Life at Hicksons – Contributing to our community is part of our Vision; the firm provides you with the opportunity to contribute to the firm's corporate social responsibility activities through our pro-bono program.
  • Awards – The 2024 AFR Partnership Survey named Hicksons as the industry leader with the highest proportion of Female Partners for the second year running. In addition, Hicksons has been recognised ABA employer of choice winners (2020 & 2023).

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