Zoe Weir

Background

About Zoe Weir

Zoe is a Partner in the Workplace Relations and Safety team in the Perth office. Zoe has a diverse skill set, having worked as a senior workplace relations lawyer for 18 years, and as an HR strategic advisor in both Australia and Canada for almost 8 years. This combination of legal knowledge and practice and broad range of hands-on HR experience enables Zoe to provide a strategic and practical approach to workplace issues. Zoe has provided legal advice to employers across a wide variety of industries, including mining, energy, education, transport, health, manufacturing and financial services, in the private, public and not for profit sectors, on all aspects of workplace relations and compliance. Zoe's key experience is in the following areas: • Advising on HR/Industrial Relations strategies and planning for existing and new workforces, as well as acquisitions, restructures and re-organisations; • Reviewing and drafting industrial instruments and advising on bargaining and award and agreement compliance; • Advising on workplace health and safety issues; • Preparing and advising on executive agreements and benefits, employment contracts, policies and procedures; • Advising on post-employment obligations and restraints; • Advising on performance management, discipline and termination of employment as well as redundancies; • Providing advice for payroll audits; • Advising on and undertaking workplace investigations of complex workplace issues, including complaints of workplace bullying, sexual harassment, discrimination and victimisation, as well as safety incidents; • Advising on and representing clients in various industrial tribunals/courts in relation to claims of unfair dismissal, adverse action, unlawful discrimination and breach of contract; • Development and delivery of training and facilitation of workshops (for example on workplace behaviour, workplace protections, performance management, whistleblowing and bargaining); and • Providing legal update presentations to client teams, Executives and Boards.