Advocacy

One of Livingstones Australia's core competencies - Representing your organisation's best interests

Unfair dismissal, anti-discrimination, wage claims, Workplace Health and Safety prosecutions and the like, have the potential to be costly exercises in terms of management time and representative costs.

If your organisation has been served with a claim, Livingstones Australia can provide you with prompt and reliable advice in managing this process in a cost effective way as well as provide professional expertise in industrial advocacy, mediation and conflict resolution.

Livingstones Australia is able to provide experienced Advocates (both legally trained and lay persons) to represent you in proceedings before the Federal or any State Industrial Relations Commission, the Anti-Discrimination Commissions or any other Tribunal or legal body that operate nationally.  This representation would cover the broad category of Industrial and Equal Opportunity Applications, ranging from Disputes, Unfair Dismissal conferences/conciliation to major Award restructuring, workers compensation and Anti-Discrimination conferences, and hearings. 

Advocacy, or representative services, are a specialist role that requires training and experience. Near enough is never good enough when you engage in process that has the potential to impact on your business financially and organisationally.

We have successfully represented both large and small employers in these arbitrated processes by strategising properly, meticulous attention to detail and presenting cases with a high level of expertise.

Examples include:

• The dismissal of wage claims by 5 individuals totaling $496,000.00 after a lengthy Magistrates Court trial
• The dismissal by the AIRC of a union’s claim that an employee was dismissed unfairly for smoking in a car park adjacent to a food preparation factory
• A finding that an individual was an independent contractor and not entitled to Award payments;
  Numerous findings that employees were not unfairly dismissed
• Negotiating satisfactory outcomes with prosecutors in various Work Place Health & Safety prosecutions
• Settling of a claim of $30,000.00 for sexual harassment at the ADCQ conference for $1500.00

After a trial a satisfied client recently wrote regarding one of our advocates;

“It is rare to find someone that can both see and appreciate the big picture, yet have the skill and attention to detail leaving “no stone unturned””.