Our business -
              - Your workplace compliance solution

We offer businesses a unique one stop shop to solve human resources and employment law issues affecting the workplace – from recruitment and selection, implementing HR policies, training, strategic advice and investigations through to employment law advice and litigation support.

Helping you with workplace law responsibilities

PCC Lawyers and Consultants, is a boutique firm specialising in employment law and HR support.

Our goal is to achieve high quality HR support and large law firm standards of excellence in legal services within a more flexible, client-orientated framework. Directors, Helen Carter and Jennifer Sant, are experienced employment lawyers and business advisers who have worked in top tier law firms and business and offer a unique multidimensional approach to HR and workplace law. As a boutique firm, our service delivery and cost structure makes us an effective option for many organisations.

How can we help?

Workplace Law

  • Contracts of employment
  • Legal issues arising on termination of employment
  • Unlawful discrimination legislation
  • Modern Awards
  • Enterprise agreements
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Human resources support

  • Recruitment and selection
  • HR planning and strategic advice
  • Performance management
  • Policy drafting and implementation
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Employment Advice: Individuals

  • Employment law advice
  • Termination of employment
  • Strategic advice and assistance in negotiating settlements.
  • Representation in the event litigation is necessary.
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Occupational health and safety

  • Advice on obligations
  • Investigations
  • Dealing with WorkCover
  • Representation for prosecutions
  • Directors’ and managers’ liability
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Workplace investigations

  • Investigations
  • Workplace conflict
  • Allegations of misconduct, harrassment, discrimination
  • Mediation
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Training and Mentoring

  • All workplace issues covered
  • Training for managers and supervisors
  • Tailored for your organisation
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Workplace law updates

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Senior executive found to have not engaged in misconduct and awarded damages

The NSW Supreme Court has found EDI wrongly dismissed its managing director on the grounds of misconduct and denied him a substantial bonus.

The company dismissed the managing director following a fall in profits of the company however later claimed that he had been dismissed due to alleged misconduct, based on evidence it had discovered after he left its employment.

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Retrenched executive is allowed to keep a “mistaken” redundancy payment

A company which mistakenly paid its national operations manager a $27,000 severance payment, believing it was require do so under an award, has failed in its attempt to recoup the money.

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Employee dismissed while absent from work because of illness fails in adverse action claim

The Federal Court of Australia has dismissed an adverse action claim on appeal (Khiani v Australian Bureau of Statistics [2011] DCAFC 109), finding that the fact that there was a temporal connection between the taking of leave by an employee and the taking of disciplinary action against the employee did not necessarily mean that there was a causal connection.

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Industry news

Retail industry news

In a recent decision involving the General Retail Industry Award, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission has again indicated that not all changes resulting from the move to the modern award system will be phased in through complex transitional provisions. In this case the AIRC confirmed that a reduction in ordinary hours, for some employees, from 40 under previous award based instruments, to 38 in the General Retail Industry Award would be effective 1 January 2010. Read more

Corporate news

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PCC Lawyers New offices

We are delighted to report that we have relocated to new offices and begin our operations in St Leonards from Monday 22nd August 2011.

Our new address and contact details are:

Suite 401, level 4,
118 Christie Street,
St Leonards NSW 2065
ph: 8436 2500
fax: 9436 1305. 

We look forward to seeing you in our new offices.

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Helen Carter speaks on social media

Helen Carter, Director of PCC Lawyers, recently spoke on Radio Atticus about the implications of using social media in the recruitment process.

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PCC Lawyers commences practice

On 1 February 2010 PCC Lawyers, a boutique firm specialising in employment and industrial law, commenced practice.

PCC Lawyers' goal is to achieve large law firm standards of excellence in legal services within a more flexible, client-oriented framework. The firm has been set up by an experienced team of lawyers - Helen Carter and Jennifer Sant - who have worked in top tier law firms and business. As a boutique firm, we are able to offer a unique style of service delivery at a competitive cost.

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