Dismissal
If you are faced with a claim, our objective is to minimise these costs and to achieve the most favorable outcome for your business. So our first step is to evaluate your position and decide on the best strategy for your circumstances.

We are staffed by employment and industrial relations experts who are completely familiar with the workings of the industrial tribunals and their requirements.

Over the past five years we have advised and defended employers in over 2500 unfair dismissal claims. With this level of experience, we well understand the disruption, and the financial and emotional cost these claims can have on an employer.

These days, poor job performance, breach of explicit company policy and even employee theft and dishonesty doesn't give an employer the automatic right to dismiss an employee.

Courts frequently decide that employers have not given the ex-employee a fair go. And the cost of getting it "wrong" in the courts' view can be up to six months of an employee's salary, possible reinstatement, plus the lost time to your business while you deal with court proceedings.

Government and court decisions have placed strict legal obligations on employers to follow onerous procedures in handling dismissals. They see a correct dismissal procedure and giving the employee ample opportunity to retain their job as more important than having a valid reason for dismissal.

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