Senior Associate/Experienced Lawyer - Employment, Safety & People

Legal - Employment Safety & People | Melbourne

About us

We are a modern Australian law firm with a leading reputation.We focus on exceptional service, operational excellence and beingat the forefront of employee experience. We work closely withAustralian and international businesses, organisations andgovernments.

About the role

Our Employment, Safety and People team have an exciting newopportunity for a Senior Associate/experienced Lawyer (5-7 years’experience).

We service the full spectrum of employment, IR and safetymatters for private and public sector clients. In this role, youwill have the opportunity to work alongside all Partners across abroad range of workplace relations matters, including workplacerelations,corporate transaction support,discrimination, general protections claims and employmentcontracts.

Some of the benefits of joining our highly regarded practice,recently recognised as the Lawyers Weekly Workplace Relationsand Employment Team of the Year, include:

- The opportunity to be a part of one of Australia’s largestworkplace relations teams, with a widely recognised and genuineteam culture and rapidly expanding practice with exposure tointeresting and varied work
- Access to excellent learning, mentoring and developmentinitiatives including a focus on personal development and closeworking relationships with Partners who are progressive leadersin the field, collaborate to work with each and with theirsenior lawyers to lead and develop the team
- A team that is genuinely excited about workingcollaboratively with clients to find solutions in a complexregulatory environment, applying both first rate technicalknowledge with practical client-focussed thinking

About you

You will have 5+ years' experience in an employment/workplacerelations practice and be looking for your next challenge.

You are a team player dedicated to helping our clients meettheir objectives. Furthermore, you will have strong attention todetail,



excellent analytical & drafting skills, excellentcommunication skills and a passion for this area of law.

Maddocks is simply a great place to do great work. We foster aculture of collaboration, learning and engagement where you willexperience:

A diverse and inclusive workplace: We have beennamed an employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the WorkforceGender Equality Agency (WGEA) every year since 2004 along withbeing named a Silver Employer at the Australian Workplace EqualityIndex's 2024 LGBTQ Inclusion Awards. We promote diversityinternally through our Maddocks Gender Equality Network, MaddocksCALD, Maddocks Disability Inclusion and Maddocks Pride groups.

Career Development: Learn and develop throughstructured learning and development programs at each stage of yourcareer and study support programs.

Community involvement: give back to thecommunities in which we operate through our thriving pro bono andgrants programs and staff volunteering initiatives.

Work flexibly: work in a hybrid way with partof your week in the office and support to set up your homeoffice.

Wellbeing & Advantages: access to up to 20 weekspaid parental leave, discounted gym memberships & health insurance,salary continuance insurance, Employee Assistance Program andparents and carers wellbeing programs.

Our people are our greatest advocates and we believe this is aresult of our inclusive culture and focus on complex andinteresting work.

To be eligible for this role you must be legally permittedto work in Australia. Please note that unsolicited applicationsfrom agencies will not be considered at this time.

As part of our commitment to protecting your privacy, yourapplication information will onlybe retained for a period of24 months after the submission of yourapplication. After this period, your Maddocks job seeker profilewill remain active, however all application details will be perpetually deleted from Big Red Sky. Should you wish to deleteyour job seeker profile, you can do so in your account settings(under the 'Change Login' menu option).

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📌 Senior Associate/Experienced Lawyer - Employment, Safety & People (Melbourne)
🏢 Maddocks
📍 Melbourne