Richard Thompson
Head of Employment & Workplace Relations
Richard has 20 years experience in Employment Law and Workplace Relations including his roles as Senior Industrial Relations Advisor with an employer association, Industrial Relations Barrister, Partner (Workplace Relations) and most recently Principal of Archer Thompson Lawyers - a specialist workplace relations law firm.
In addition to his law degree, Richard has post graduate qualifications in Labour Relations Law and Legal Practice. He is a member of the Industrial Relations Society of Victoria and the Law Institute of Victoria.
Richard has specific industry experience in manufacturing, transport (road, rail and shipping), ports, local government, energy supply (oil & gas), labour hire, real estate, recruitment, retail and financial services.
Richard and his team at Wisewould Mahony can provide legal advice and assistance on all aspects of employment law and workplace relations including:
- Fair Work Legalisation: compliance, implementation and enforcement.
- Terminations: dismissals, redundancy, disciplinary procedure and unfair dismissals.
- Employment agreements: enterprise agreements, staff contracts, executive contracts and contractor agreements.
- Policies: letters of offer, appropriate use of IT, privacy and all other human resources procedures.
- Industrial Relations: enterprise bargaining, union issues and industrial action.
- Transmission of business: sale of business, insolvency, restructuring and change management.
- Restraint of Trade: confidentiality, privacy, cyber-crime.
- Discrimination law: representation before anti-discrimination tribunals, policy advice and staff training.
- Representation: Industrial Relations Commission, Discrimination Tribunals, Magistrates Court (Industrial Division), Federal Magistrates Court, Federal Court and all other jurisdictions.
- Workplace Training