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About the Role
The EY Employment Law team advises leading organisations on complex labour and employment law matters across Australia and internationally. This role presents an outstanding opportunity to build deep expertise in workforce advisory work focusing on 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.
Responsibilities
- Support clients on a broad range of employment and industrial relations matters while developing employment law expertise.
- Review and interpret modern awards, enterprise agreements, and workplace legislation as part of wage and entitlement compliance projects.
- Assist with employment law and industrial relations advice across a range of workplace issues, including compliance projects, workforce flexibility, workplace change, and employment obligations.
- Support enterprise bargaining projects, including reviewing enterprise agreements from a compliance perspective, enterprise agreement strategy, drafting EAs, and BOOT analysis.
- Assist on employment law aspects of business restructures, transactions, workforce transformation projects, and employment-related due diligence activities, particularly from a compliance perspective.
Requirements
- 2-5 years post admission experience in employment law.
- A can-do attitude.
- 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.
- Preferred applicant will be required to undertake employment screening by EY or their external third-party provider.
Skills
- Employment law
- Interpreting modern awards
- Interpreting enterprise agreements
- Interpreting workplace legislation
- Analytical skills
- Legal technology
- Data-enabled solutions
- Innovative approaches to legal service delivery
Location
- Naarm – Melbourne
- Warrang – Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Flexible work arrangements
- Reduced hours
Experience Level
- 2-5 years post admission experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary, open to negotiation pending on skills and experience.
Benefits
- Career development with future-focused skills and world-class experiences.
- Flexible work policies empowering balance between professional and personal life.
- Comprehensive benefits package including a yearly wellness incentive.
- Access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year.
- Family-friendly policies, including up to 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave.
About the Company
- EY is a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams.
- EY is committed to building a better working world.
- EY is recognised as the #1 WORK180 Endorsed Employer in the Top 101 Employers for Women 2026.
- EY acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which EY offices are located around Australia and pays respects to their cultures, and to their Elders — past, present, and emerging.
Equal Opportunity
- Inclusiveness is core to who we are and how we work together, driving value for our people and for our business.
- Encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, cultures, sexual orientations, and gender identities.
- Committed to providing an equitable and barrier-free recruitment experience for all.
- Encourage candidates to share any support and adjustments needed to be their best and participate equitably in the recruitment process.
- Welcome candidates to get in touch at contactrecruitment@au.ey.com or +61 3 8650 7788 (option 2) with questions before or during the application.
- Anything shared will be kept completely confidential.