Minter Ellison ‘Remember Me’ Shame Morphs into Firm-Wide PR Disaster

Two days ago the Firm Spy commented on the sick timing of Minter Ellison’s decision to publicise its alumni network

‘Remember Me’. Of all the times in history in which P&D Coordinator Kerrie Bowden could have trumpeted Minters’ alumni network, she chose one week after dozens of workers were unceremoniously sacked.

Well, in an effort to dig the firm out of this mess, it appears Bowden has contacted  The New Lawyer to try to place a positive spin on our report. Instead, Kerrie Bowden has mired Minter Ellison in an even more scandalous situation.

In an excellent news story from The New Lawyer, Kerrie Bowden revealed:

the firm was holding a number of vacant lawyer positions… the firm is looking for five lawyers… property vacancies appear despite recent redundancies made in that area.

Vacancies? Where there were redundancies one week ago?

As noted by the Commonwealth Workplace Authority:

Redundancy is when an employer decides an employee’s job isn’t needed to be done by anyone. The job, not the employee, becomes redundant.

Do the ‘redundant’ lawyers have a claim for unfair dismissal?

If Minter Ellison is unable to correctly implement redundancies in its own office, how can it possibly propose to advise on the implementation of redundancies in the wider community?

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