Dismissal Advice

John Lamb has over 25 years’ experience dealing with unfair dismissal allegations. This experience allows the employer to receive a candid briefing on their concerns in relation to an action against them by a current or ex-employee. John Lamb Workplace Relations Consulting is usually able to resolve matters of this sort at the conciliation stage, thereby saving our client the cost of hearing. Adverse Action stems from what is known as General Protections under the Fair Work Act 2009. An employee, under the legislation, has a number of Workplace Rights and where the employer through their actions adversely impacts these Workplace Rights, they are exposed to litigation. The main point here is that the onus of proof is reversed, meaning that the employer has to prove that they did not adversely impact the Workplace Right of an employee