Jacques Franken Email & Phone Number

Ipswich

• Interpretation of industrial instruments
• Advising on and drafting of Enterprise Bargaining Agreements
• Advising on the conduct or performance of employees
• Termination and Redundancy
• Workplace Investigations
• Workplace conflict

Brisbane

Advocacy in Trading Hour applications for non-exempt Retailers( Woolworths; Big W; Coles; K-Mart and Target) Successful in application to have order granted for Sunday trading in Dalby and extended hours for Australia Fair Shopping Centre in Southport, Gold Coast.

Northgate

• Occupational Risk Manager Involved in (amongst other tasks):
• Implementing and maintaining the Heinz Safety Process and Development of the site Safety Health and Accident Reduction Plan (SHARP) for FY14;
• Ensuring safety consultation through leading and developing a commitment to safety and environment protection in all work conducted across the site;
• Daily, weekly, monthly reporting against indicators for safety performance;
• Ensuring adequate training, supervision and monitoring of all safety responsibilities;
• Regular area (on site) inspections to identify possible hazards and non compliance issues;

• Successfully developing a strategy that preserved terms and conditions of employment for 35 companies (Whitsunday Charter Boat Association members) by obtaining Federal Government approval to negotiate and establish a.
• Developing a unique template enterprise agreement for the Real Estate Industry that covers all staff within the business and enabled the businesses to achieve savings. Approximately a 100 of these agreements are in.
• Acting as an advocate in a wage claim of $39,000 brought by DIR against a client and successfully defending the claim.
• Advising/guiding clients through a process towards termination of employment and my advice being vindicated by Fair Work Commission at arbitration.

Cape Town

• Involved in the establishment of a National Petroleum Employers Association and contracted to perform secretarial and advisory functions for the National Petroleum Employers Association whose members include all the.
• Acting as an advisor for the Petroleum Industry for 7 years prior to leaving for Australia

Cape Town

• development of Human Resources/Industrial Relations strategies
• overseeing successful implementation of strategies
• advising Board of Directors / Executive Management team on specific Human Resource issues such as job evaluations, appraisal systems, productivity enhancement, incentive schemes, top-up programmes etc.
• chief negotiator with union on rules / agreement involving transfer of R45 million to Chemical Industries National Provident Fund
• member of founding working group of Petroleum Industry involved in the development of centralised bargaining structures / models
• developed retrenchment procedures and managed process of reducingstaff by 1260 (33% reduction) without major complications

Advising Management on legal issues pertaining to multi million dollar deals