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About the Role
Gallagher Bassett is seeking a highly experienced Employment Practices Specialist to provide expert technical advice on complex employment-related claims, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and early resolution. This role focuses on advising on liability, coverage, and strategy for employment disputes and enhancing organizational capability in managing these claims.
Responsibilities
- Act as the primary technical referral point for complex or sensitive employment-related claims.
- Provide expert guidance on coverage, liability assessment and resolution strategies.
- Manage litigious and non-litigious matters including unfair dismissal, discrimination and workplace disputes.
- Advise stakeholders on employment legislation, privacy obligations and compliance requirements.
- Drive early resolution strategies including mediation, negotiation and ADR pathways.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with agencies, legal providers and internal stakeholders.
- Deliver training and capability uplift initiatives across employment claims and legislative requirements.
- Identify trends and emerging risks within the portfolio and provide actionable insights.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to enhance claims processes, quality and efficiency.
Requirements
- Strong employment law experience, ideally at Associate or Senior Associate level.
- Proven experience managing complex employment claims including IR matters.
- Sound knowledge of employment legislation, Industrial Relations frameworks and claims processes.
- Demonstrated ability to assess liability, coverage and develop defensible strategies.
- Excellent communication, negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience delivering training and building capability across teams.
- Strong analytical, drafting and reporting skills.
- High level of resilience, empathy and professionalism.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a complex, fast-paced environment.
- Must have the right to live and work within Australia.
Skills
- Employment law
- Claims management
- Stakeholder engagement
- Analytical thinking
- Solutions-focused approach
- Negotiation
- Training delivery
- Capability building
- Drafting
- Reporting
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Flexible work arrangements
- Work from Home
- Hybrid work arrangements
Experience Level
- Associate
- Senior Associate
Salary/Compensations
- Attractive remuneration packaging
Benefits
- 4 weeks annual leave
- Up to 2 weeks additional purchased Lifestyle Leave
- Novated Leasing opportunities
- Two paid volunteer days annually
- Health Insurance Discounts with our Group Insurance Plan
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Paid parental leave
- Reproductive leave
- Birthday leave
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Support for yourself and immediate family members
- Employee Recognition Awards and Service Milestone Recognitions
- Peer Support Program
- Annual flu vaccinations
- Access to Reward Gateway – discount offers at over 350 retailers!
About the Company
- Gallagher Bassett helps clients navigate complexity, support recovery, and deliver outcomes that make a real difference in people’s lives.
- We are a team of fast-paced fixers, empathetic experts, and outcomes drivers.
- We are supported by a culture that values teamwork, encourages curiosity, and celebrates the impact of your work.
- We are a team that shows up, stands together, and leads with purpose.
- Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.
- Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities.
- We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength.
Equal Opportunity
- Gallagher Bassett is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from all backgrounds.
- Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
- Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination.
- Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.