Associate – Employment Lawyer

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The opportunity

The EY Employment Law team advises leading organisations on complex labour and employment law matters across Australia and internationally. We support clients through workforce transformation, wage compliance reviews, business restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, and other employment law challenges. To support our practice in Oceania, we are seeking an Employment Lawyer with 1-3 years post admission experience. This role presents an outstanding opportunity to build deep expertise in workforce advisory work including compliance. You will work directly with clients and partners, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across EY and leverage innovative legal technology and AI-enabled solutions to help deliver market-leading outcomes. This is a hybrid position based in Naarm – Melbourne or Warrang – Sydney. Our roles can potentially be adjusted to work flexibly with reduced hours. Please speak with us about potential options.

Your key responsibilities

• Working within a highly collaborative Employment Law team, you will support clients on a broad range of employment and industrial relations matters while developing your employment law expertise.
• Reviewing and interpreting modern awards, enterprise agreements and workplace legislation as part of wage and entitlement compliance projects.
• Assisting with employment law and industrial relations advice across a range of workplace issues, including workforce flexibility, workplace change and employment obligations.
• Supporting enterprise bargaining projects, including enterprise agreement strategy, drafting EAs and BOOT analysis.
• Assisting on employment law aspects of business restructures, transactions, workforce transformation projects and employment-related due diligence activities.

Skills and attributes for success

• 1-3 years’ PQE in employment law.
• Experience interpreting modern awards, enterprise agreements and workplace legislation.
• Strong analytical skills and an interest in technically complex compliance work.
• An interest in legal technology, data-enabled solutions and innovative approaches to legal service delivery.

What we offer you

• Career development: At EY, your career is yours to shape! We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences.
• Flexible work arrangements: Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.
• A comprehensive benefits package: From a yearly wellness incentive, to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year, and family-friendly policies, including up to 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally.
• Salary: We offer a competitive salary which is open to negotiation pending on skills and experience.

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